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Musk trashes his own AI after it chose a liberal worldview. RobVG June 23, 2025 9:56 am (CurrentEvents)

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 5:21 pm (Space/Science)

Just for the record... ER June 22, 2025 8:59 am (CurrentEvents)

The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:58 am (CurrentEvents)

There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:29 am (Flame)

Not ready for prime time BuckGalaxy June 19, 2025 12:18 pm (Space/Science)

hypocrisy ER June 15, 2025 2:30 pm (Flame)

NSIDC offline? ER June 12, 2025 12:19 pm (Space/Science)

Wouldn't it be nice BuckGalaxy June 11, 2025 3:13 pm (Off-Topic)

Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin BuckGalaxy June 9, 2025 1:35 pm (Off-Topic)

So, it is official RL June 6, 2025 5:39 pm (Space/Science)

"Remember, what the dormouse said, ER June 5, 2025 4:14 pm (Space/Science)

And where was NASA?... August 29, 2011 3:18 pm Eri

…when the shit hit the fan?

All washed up in politics, budget cuts, short-sightedness, etc. So we could lose a lot of the value of having the ISS.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who figured this would eventually happen. Maybe they’ll find the reason in time, maybe they won’t. But it is friggin’ criminal to put all our eggs in one basket. We should have been working on developing alternative ways to get there and back if we weren’t going to keep the shuttles we have (rather, had) running.

I guess it’s too late to take one out of mothballs?

One presumes they’ll eventually get back up there to the ISS but we’ll STILL have no backup.

  • I'm pretty confident that they'll get the booster flying again. The Soyuz rocket and capsule have a lineage four decades ... by Robert 2011-08-31 10:09:36
    • From this article: "Under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, nations retain 'jurisdiction and control' over their spacecraft even when they are ... by TB 2011-08-31 11:16:37
      • New report on Space Junk: by podrock 2011-09-01 15:30:36
        • The report is available here (sort of.) A good summary here. Amazing how much that one Chinese mess increased the ... by TB 2011-09-02 09:55:51
          • It's not like we couldn't see this coming. It's been pretty clear this was going to happen, not just ... by ER 2011-09-02 09:33:26

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