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dreamtranceokay so I know I'm defensive of my boys but some people need to just lay off.
I subscribe to slashdot.org (some of you geek types may know it) and get the daily headlines and articles. I was going through my backlog from the last few weeks and found this blurb that someone posted and it pissed me off. I'm sick of people ragging on Lance especially when they don't know the whole story. *fuckers*
NASA Consider "Demanning" Space Station
posted by Hemos on Monday December 16, @12:35
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Heartbreak writes "James Oberg, in an article for MSNBC, says that
NASA is making contingency plans to leave the International Space Station without a permanent crew for up to a year if the Russians can't deliver the required Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to support it. A serviceable Soyuz is required to evacuate the crew in an emergency when the US Shuttle isn't there, and Progress is needed for resupply. The Russian space program is doddering on the edge of financial collapse after several recent setbacks, including the failure of Lance Bass to pay up. What SF writer could have imagined that humanity's dream of exploring space would be brought to the edge of extinction by the financial irresponsibility of a pop music star? It would be a boring and depressing story, at best." Of course, some would argue that the space station was a boondoogle to start with.
link to article
I subscribe to slashdot.org (some of you geek types may know it) and get the daily headlines and articles. I was going through my backlog from the last few weeks and found this blurb that someone posted and it pissed me off. I'm sick of people ragging on Lance especially when they don't know the whole story. *fuckers*
NASA Consider "Demanning" Space Station
posted by Hemos on Monday December 16, @12:35
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Heartbreak writes "James Oberg, in an article for MSNBC, says that
NASA is making contingency plans to leave the International Space Station without a permanent crew for up to a year if the Russians can't deliver the required Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to support it. A serviceable Soyuz is required to evacuate the crew in an emergency when the US Shuttle isn't there, and Progress is needed for resupply. The Russian space program is doddering on the edge of financial collapse after several recent setbacks, including the failure of Lance Bass to pay up. What SF writer could have imagined that humanity's dream of exploring space would be brought to the edge of extinction by the financial irresponsibility of a pop music star? It would be a boring and depressing story, at best." Of course, some would argue that the space station was a boondoogle to start with.
link to article
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Date: 2003-01-02 04:09 pm (UTC)Now who's writing fiction? And aaaargh. ::claws at eyes again::
They're all bitches.
The article, that doesn't sound too hopeful about the April trip either and this makes me sad. I read somewhere that Lance said that he wanted to go in April but he's laid pretty low so far and it doesn't sound good.