Good thing we hired the Russian's!

[BBShark]

Whoops.... Looks like it might have been a bit of a mistake to shut down the shuttle program and hire the Russians to take our guys up. I'm glad I'm not scheduled to go up........in an exploding POS!

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/russian-space-ship-fails-to-reach-orbit/

 

[DeeVeeEight]

Whoops.... Looks like it might have been a bit of a mistake to shut down the shuttle program and hire the Russians to take our guys up. I'm glad I'm not scheduled to go up........in an exploding POS!

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/24/russian-space-ship-fails-to-reach-orbit/

The article says it was an unmanned supply ship. It also says that there is a 1 year supply of food on the space station. The little villages in Siberia may have some interesting stuff for their cupboards this winter....

 

[denpo]

That's the second consecutive failure for the Russians, still on the long run they still are the most reliable.

Nations' launch success rate as a percentage of its total launches



Source : http://www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/winter2001/03.html

 

[turtlevette]

That's the second consecutive failure for the Russians, still on the long run they still are the most reliable.

Nations' launch success rate as a percentage of its total launches



Source : http://www.aero.org/publications/crosslink/winter2001/03.html

Wait a minute. They haven't even safely sent a man to the moon.

We took a car there and went 4 wheeling.

But i know. Everybody's special.