News and Commentary on Space
It seems the Mars Society is getting some attention in Russia.
Unfortunately for me, the article is in Russian, so I can’t tell whether it is positive attention or otherwise. And Babelfish doesn’t seem to want to translate it for me.
Oops, I just had to wait a moment longer. Here is a partial translation.
Because humans have more interest in going there than robots do.
Predictably, NASA is wussing out on ISS in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster. So much for boldly storming the heavens.
It was bad enough that the crew was going to be cut from seven to three, with those three spending nearly all of their time troubleshooting the hardware. Now, we’ll have two guys up there without even enough time to do a proper job of that (and it will indeed be “guys”, since NASA won’t have the nerve to brave the innuendo a one-on-one mixed crew would spawn).
ISS is looking more and more like a boondoggle all the time (as if that weren’t obvious already). I’m no big fan of ISS or Shuttle, but we’ve got them, and they’re currently all we’ve got, so let’s get back to business.
If the Shuttle program were like the Osprey program, we’d be flying again already.
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A young girl sets out to prove herself by resolving a long-forgotten mystery. But when she gets close to the truth, what she thought was a harmless adventure becomes a threat to the future of the independent commercial settlements on Mars.
