http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/04/19/skorea.soyuz/index.html?iref=topnews
How long before these glory hungry countries, like Russia, Korea, India and China will end up dropping the big one in an over populated area and killing loads of people all because of old fashioned, badly maintained and unsuitable gear?
I recall stories of the Russian space station which had more repair cables running through it's interior than there were originally in the controls when built. The umbilical ran through the living quarters and stopped hatches from being closed. How stupid is that?
I start to think it is getting too crowded up there and we will not be told if something can go wrong before it is too late. Even then we cannot do anything anyway. What if that shooting down of that satellite had gone wrong. The Chinese did one and admittedly that is where I would expect the error to come from but USA has not got a trouble free history in that department either.
I am willing to take the risk from a science rich technology from a technically well developed space company but the constant going up there from Russia and China bothers me. Soon we have to add India and Korea as well.
What controls are there to ensure that what they do is safe?
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