"I don't know how you missed the launch last year."
Thanks. I was very busy...under my rock.
In principle, yes. In practicality, probably not.
If the politics can be put aside (always the gotcha with international bodies) it could work but I doubt will happen unless there is a clear unifying goal that adds some level of urgency (i.e. "some impending disaster that necessitates us going to space").
"NASA has efforts underway to develop an American-made commercial capability for crew transportation and rescue services to the station following this year's retirement of the space shuttle fleet."
Seems like a lot of people missed this part, but is there any real information on these efforts? I know there have been private-sector developments in space flight (Virgin for example), but are there any examples, prototypes, or even a rough napkin-sketches on what these new "crew transportation and rescue services" will look like?
The interesting thing that I learned today is "Cyber-Hoarder" is a trigger word that can unleash instant and unabated nerd-rage in those slash-dotters whom have large movie collections or astronomical data.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson