Star Voyager
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Keep in mind that STS-1 was delayed for 2 years before flying.
Keep in mind that STS-1 was delayed for 2 years before flying.
Hearing NET May 19th now.
Sometimes you learn more from a failure.
If SpaceX launch on the 10th (and berth on the 13th), they will only have two days of margin in the schedule before both the Dragon and Soyuz flights will clash - and having low margin for additional testing days on a test flight is a bad idea, IMHO.
Sometimes you learn more from a failure.
Orion will probably be flying to at least LEO before 2020.
What would happen if SpaceX failed;
NASA was determined to reach the moon but Apollo 1 was a major setback.
The same applies to the shuttle tragedies, but they made the spacecraft/missions safer. Congress is unhappy with COTS, ironically, so a failure cannot be good for their funding.
As long as it generates jobs in their districts. If it looks like a Saturn V, that may be a bonus.Congress seems to be unhappy with anything related to manned space flight if you ask me. I get the impression that space flight just is an annoying topic for them. And they also have no clue of it.
As long as it generates jobs in their districts. If it looks like a Saturn V, that may be a bonus.
What I'm saying is that Congress does not have the motivation to fund COTS like Apollo, so a failure may terminate their funding.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--The long-awaited launch of a commercial cargo ship bound for the International Space Station almost certainly will be delayed from May 7 to at least May 10 and possibly longer, sources said late Tuesday, to give company engineers additional time to complete pre-flight tests and checkout.
Launching something to the ISS is really a lot of legal trouble, but for a more or less good reason. If the Dragon capsule would for example suddenly depressurize while berthed to the ISS, the whole crew would be in danger. So, SpaceX has to proof in a engineering sense, that this risk is not higher than acceptable.
Same for station keeping inside the ISS zone of exclusion. just flying near the ISS is already a pretty dangerous thing, usually you have to be at least 2500 ft away from it.
That was not a KURS fault. The Progress was flown by a Mir crewmember during an undock/redock evaluation for a possible KURS deletion in order to save money.the Progress-Mir collision is an evidence that automated systems can be trust only to a given point.
That was not a KURS fault. The Progress was flown by a Mir crewmember during an undock/redock evaluation for a possible KURS deletion in order to save money.