Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004

posted 11-12-2005 08:15 PM               

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This seems to be good news. We (the US) can keep some cash flowing into the Russian program, which I'm sure they need, and we can continue sending folks to ISS while we get our house back in order.

www.space.com/news/ft_051027_house_soyuz.html

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Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005

posted 11-13-2005 11:44 AM               

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I don't interpret this as the end of the Space Shuttle. As the articles implies, this merely facilitates a continuation of what has been taking place in the last three years.

In the long run, it may reduce the number of Shuttle flights, so that the Shuttle is only used to fly up the larger components of the ISS for construction.

I'm somewhat hopeful that this may even free up the Shuttle schedule to a point where a Hubble servicing mission can take still take place.