Space Station may be abandoned

Chillie (Henry) · #1 31-08-2011, 12:17 AM

I saw this article on the BigPond web site:

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Tech...ed_655988.html

OICURMT · #2 31-08-2011, 01:09 AM

Maybe the US should have one shuttle on "stand-by" from now on... but it probably costs too much.

Ric · #3 31-08-2011, 12:35 PM

No shuttles, no manned station (maybe)

We are certainly going backwards at a great rate of knots.

Jeffkop (Jeff) · #4 31-08-2011, 12:42 PM

Ummm .. this might be a dumb question .. but how are they going to get the remaining americans from the space station if there aint anymore taxis ??? ... Or did they do take them aon 135 ???

RB (Andrew) · #5 31-08-2011, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeffkop

Ummm .. this might be a dumb question .. but how are they going to get the remaining americans from the space station if there aint anymore taxis ??? ... Or did they do take them aon 135 ???

I assumed the remaining personnel would return on Russian Soyuz rockets.

supernova1965 (Warren) · #6 31-08-2011, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by RB

I assumed the remaining personnel would return on Russian Soyuz rockets.

I thought that there were soyuz capsules permantly docked to the station for emergency evacuations.

TrevorW · #7 31-08-2011, 03:00 PM

If it's empty, is it like a ship, can I claim salvage rights

multiweb (Marc) · #8 31-08-2011, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by TrevorW

If it's empty, is it like a ship, can I claim salvage rights

Yeah, good idea and we should set all our gear up there and operate remotely. Perfect seeing.

BlackWidow (Mardy) · #9 31-08-2011, 07:23 PM

My wife said I should take all my Da#@M Telescope stuff and stay up thier. I knew I had a good wife

Mardy

mozzie (Peter) · #10 31-08-2011, 07:30 PM

it doesn't sound good !!!!!! there's not the money to keep everything going what a shame...

icytailmark (Mark) · #11 31-08-2011, 08:34 PM

why cant they use richard branson's space ships?

Chillie (Henry) · #12 01-09-2011, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by OICURMT

Maybe the US should have one shuttle on "stand-by" from now on... but it probably costs too much.

Not much hope of that. When I was posting the OP, NASA TV showed NASA dismantling the launch pad.

Chillie (Henry) · #13 01-09-2011, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeffkop

Ummm .. this might be a dumb question .. but how are they going to get the remaining americans from the space station if there aint anymore taxis ??? ... Or did they do take them aon 135 ???

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Originally Posted by RB

I assumed the remaining personnel would return on Russian Soyuz rockets.

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Originally Posted by supernova1965

I thought that there were soyuz capsules permantly docked to the station for emergency evacuations.

My understanding is that they go home in the same Russian Soyuz rockets that they come up in.

traveller (Bo) · #14 01-09-2011, 12:23 PM

Yes, NASA is dismantling the shuttle for museums etc and focusing on Falcon X as their next heavy lift vehicle. There are apparently 2 Soyuz capsules attached to the ISS at present, for emergency evacs and the like. So the return journey is not a proble, just the buses.
Maybe they have to pay the Chinese

TrevorW · #15 01-09-2011, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by traveller

, just the buses.
Maybe they have to pay the Chinese

Why not everything else is made there

mswhin63 (Malcolm) · #16 01-09-2011, 06:10 PM

Heard a report on Star stuff that if nothing can be done by November they will remove some of the astronaut on ISS and run a skeleton astronaut staff for a while longer. They also said it wont be the end as they can operate it entirely from the ground just no research.

FJA (Faith) · #17 01-09-2011, 07:07 PM

They'll probably mothball it until a solution to the problem is found.

TrevorW · #18 01-09-2011, 07:23 PM

How hard would it be to put a capsule on an Atlas V

traveller (Bo) · #19 01-09-2011, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TrevorW

How hard would it be to put a capsule on an Atlas V

What capsule? They mothballed that before the shuttle, thats why they need their Russian comrades and their trusty souyz. So the yanks have the rocket but no capsule and the Russians have the capsule and a faulty rocket.

Nortilus (Josh) · #20 03-09-2011, 08:33 AM

Why dont they just build new shuttles using the old design...just upgrade a few things with newer materials like the heat shielding for reentry and the computer systems...doesn't that seem like a probable solutions instead of freaking out that they dont have their latest design ready to go...