> I really don't understand why you feel the ISS crew should/will leave and > come home. Indeed, this is a tragedy but to abandon the ISS seems > senseless. > > ___________________________________ > Richard Allan John Cox > 37 15' 49.300"N > 121 58' 53.7348W In my statement, formulated with a grief-clouded mind, I did not mean to imply ISS would be abandoned immediately. I meant that I think this tragedy will take so long to resolve that the current ISS crew will have no Shuttle to pick them up over the next few months. I don't think NASA will leave them up there for the nearly a year (maybe more) that it will take to requalify the Shuttle fleet for manned flight. I think the Expedition 6 crew will return via their Soyuz rescue craft. As to whether there will be additional crews sent to ISS using Russian Soyuz transports in the absence of Shuttle availability, this will have to be resolved after factoring in the limited production of the Soyuz. There just aren't that many of them being built and the Russians just can't start cranking them or their boosters out in quantities to fill the transportation gap. Robert Reeves reeves10@swbell.net 520 Rittiman Rd. www.robertreeves.com San Antonio, Texas 78209 210-828-9036 USA 29.484 98.440 200 meters ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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