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It's Science In A Can, At The Space Station

Doesn't the Columbus space lab look cozy? Here it is in the clean room of the EADS Space Transportation complex in Bremen, Germany, getting ready to be blasted up to the International Space Station. And click through for a blazing shot of the Russian Soyuz-U rocket blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome yesterday, carrying supplies to the ISS.

Columbus photo by AP Photo/EADS. Soyuz photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images.

2:30 PM on Wed Feb 6 2008
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Frozen-Tex at 02:46 PM on 02/06/08
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I love the look of those Russkie rockets!
Klappstuhl at 05:49 PM on 02/06/08
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@Frozen-Tex: In Russia, Style is flying you!
strider_mt2k at 06:49 PM on 02/06/08
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@Frozen-Tex: Yeah they're good with multiple engines, LOTS of 'em!
Moeskido at 06:51 PM on 02/06/08
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I remember a story in Wired about their rocket technology. Construction of the things was always on the heavy side, but they built the things with so much thrust that they could easily compensate for it.

Nice to see the skills haven't been lost.
Robert Isbell at 10:43 PM on 02/06/08
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that's impressive, but the EU's new cargo ship to replace the soyuz is more impressive.

hmmm..impressive, most impressive.
Klebert L. Hall at 10:04 AM on 02/07/08
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@Moeskido:
It isn't so much that the skills haven't been lost, it's that they're still flying more-or-less the same rockets as when we were kids.
-Kle.
Moeskido at 07:14 PM on 02/11/08
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@Klebert: A lot of skills are lost when we go more than a generation without the government finding short-term profit in them. Or cutting funding to programs that don't seem important, like maintenance for our nuclear warhead arsenal.

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