It's Science In A Can, At The Space Station - io9 Comments

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

Moeskido — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:14:52 PST

@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.

Whoops. Does anyone know how to disable this blinking thing?

Moeskido

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

Klebert L. Hall — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:04:45 PST

@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.

Klebert L. Hall

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Robert Isbell — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:43:31 PST

that's impressive, but the EU's new cargo ship to replace the soyuz is more impressive.

hmmm..impressive, most impressive.

Robert Isbell

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Moeskido — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:51:13 PST

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.

Moeskido

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

strider_mt2k — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:49:20 PST

@Frozen-Tex: Yeah they're good with multiple engines, LOTS of 'em!

strider_mt2k

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

Klappstuhl — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:49:32 PST

@Frozen-Tex: In Russia, Style is flying you!

Klappstuhl

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

Frozen-Tex — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:46:39 PST

I love the look of those Russkie rockets!

Frozen-Tex