Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Space Station Abandoned

Was the first thing I saw when I logged on today:

Leak Forces Space Station Evacuation

RelatedSpaceX tries again to deliver supplies to station

"A shipment of much-needed groceries and belated Christmas presents finally arrived Monday at the International Space Station. The space station’s six astronauts were getting a little low on supplies. That’s because the previous supply ship — owned by another company — was destroyed in an October launch explosion. NASA scrambled to get equipment lost in the blast aboard Dragon, as did schoolchildren who rustled up science projects. Mission Control joked about missing not only the December shipment date, but Eastern Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7 as well for the three Russian crew members. There are also two Americans and an Italian on board."

Just wondering what military movements on the ground or other things they won't be seeing now.

NDU: 

"The two space agencies differed on exactly what had occurred on the station. While the Russian space agency Roscosmos said there was a coolant leak, NASA said in a statement on its online television station there was still ‘‘no concrete data that suggests that there was, in fact, an ammonia leak.’’

Yeah, it was "just a censor" malfunction says one of the agencies that blows fart mist in the face of punishing and record-setting cold (which is strangely absent in my paper save for a crash in Texas and the scaling of El Capitan -- as if I cared).

How odd when the Western governments are making war on Russia down here on earth.