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BREAKING>>ISS to "possibly" be abandoned!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1297814:MV8xNjE2MDMxXzI2Njk1MzYxXzkzNzkyMDNC] [b][color=red]How Would NASA & Russia Evacuate the International Space Station?[/color][/b] The space station evacuation is one possibility following the failure of the unmanned Russian supply spacecraft just after its Aug. 24 launch — a surprise given the reliable track record of its workhorse Soyuz rocket. The vehicle’s Progress 44 cargo craft, and its 2.9 tons of supplies bound for the International Space Station, crashed in Siberia. An investigation into the cause of the failure is under way, but until the issue is resolved NASA and its Russian partners are delaying upcoming launches to crews and cargo to the space station. The Soyuz rockets used to launch Progress vehicles are similar to ones used to launch crews into orbit, station managers said. [Photos: Russia's Lost Cargo Ship Progress 44] So if a root cause isn't found quickly, they may have to ground manned Soyuz rockets for the time being, forcing the space agencies to leave the $100 billion orbiting laboratory unmanned for the first time since 2001. "The focus of the entire program, and in particular our Russian colleagues, is to determine the cause of the anomaly and to resolve it and to get back to flying safely," said Mike Suffredini, NASA’s space station program manager, during a briefing today (Aug. 29). “We’ll focus on keeping the crews safe. Our next focus is to try to keep the ISS manned." Only once before, after the 2003 space shuttle Columbia disaster, which destroyed that orbiter and its crew, did NASA consider evacuating the International Space Station — a process agency officials call "de-manning." In that case, though, managers decided to continue sending crews to the station on Soyuz rockets until the shuttle was ready to fly again. The space station was [b]designed to be able to operate autonomously, without crew onboard, if it needs to.[/b] "If we have to de-man ISS, we do certainly have a safe way to do that as well," Suffredini said. "We’ll try to prevent that if we can." [b]The largest risk of evacuating the station is[/b] the possibility t[b]hat some major component could break, or a significant anomaly could occur, and no astronauts would be available on orbit to fix it.[/b] "There is a greater risk of losing ISS when it's unmanned than if it were manned," Suffredini said. "That’s why we made our decision after the Columbia accident to keep it manned, because the risk is not insignificant." [u]ReadMore:[/u] http://www.space.com/12772-nasa-space-station-crew-evacuation-plan.html [b]What Is Russia's Progress Spaceship? [/b] http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/progress-spacecraft-1968/ [b]Russia's Rocket Failures Spark Increasing Worry in US[/b] http://www.space.com/12730-nasa-russia-rocket-failures-united-states-worry.html [b]Photos: Russian Robot Cargo Ship Progress 44 Lost After Launch[/b] http://www.space.com/12766-launch-photos-russia-soyuz-rocket-progress-44.html [b]Is the International Space Station Worth [color=yellow]$[/color]100 Billion?[/b] http://www.space.com/9435-international-space-station-worth-100-billion.html [/quote]
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Saw this on FOX news, so no link yet. Basically, they said the ISS would be abandoned beginning on September 16th through October or even November. The main cause is the lack of supplies because of the crash of the supply rocket in Russia.
In light of the Elenin / Nibiru theories for the coming fall, one could easily say, "How convenient?"
Basically, effective Sep 16, there will be no humans in space. I think I'll go celebrate by watching Apollo 18.
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