On the left: the most complex and amazing spacecraft ever built by mankind. It took our astronauts to space for 30 years. On the right: a tin can. It’ll take our astronauts to space for… whatever. I’m depressed. [Chromatic House]
I’m pretty sure that it’s only 14 for the shuttle. That doesn’t detract from the shuttle, even in retirement it remains a pinnacle achievement. The soyuz was designed to launch cosmonauts only – no payload. Either way I just hate the idea that we haven’t moved on in design.
Scott ('s word of the day is mandibles)
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 1:28 PMTry Pozac.
Alternatively I have heaps of emails in my spam folder that might offer you some help Jesus :)
Marat
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 2:09 PMExcept for the fact that that “tin can” on the right has taken far less lives than that shuttle on the left:
“8 NASA astronauts (4.1%) and four Russian cosmonauts (0.9% of all the people launched) died while in a spacecraft” ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents#Percentage_of_fatal_spaceflights
Marat
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 2:10 PMCorrect: 18 NASA astronauts
Mental DK
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 2:48 PMI’m pretty sure that it’s only 14 for the shuttle.
That doesn’t detract from the shuttle, even in retirement it remains a pinnacle achievement.
The soyuz was designed to launch cosmonauts only – no payload.
Either way I just hate the idea that we haven’t moved on in design.
pd
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 5:30 AMI agree it’s depressing how much of the world’s resources you yanks wasted on a project that really didn’t gain all that much.
olearymo
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 9:10 AMyou mean 0.5% of the US budget?
Yeah, wow so many resources. Enjoying using that internet there, mate? Enjoying using that mobile phone? Guess how those satellites got up there?