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There was also no fuel left to fly it with, few actual planes produced due to bombing and lack of materials, and almost no ground crew because they'd been transferred to the army.

It'd certainly be impressive as a technological achievement, if nothing else. I'd love to see the face of the average congressman when informed the Chinese have a sub ten times faster than anything in the USN.

It's an explosively-formed projectile. Effectively a recoilless rifle without the rifle.

If you're talking about the Proton failure last year, that's a deliberate decision to prevent damage to the launch site. If it had been blown when control was lost, it'd have taken out the entire pad.

Huh? Russian rockets have successfully aborted on crewed flights.

Soft drinks, or fizzy drinks if you have to be more specific than that.

What Boeing said was that they doubt there would be a market to justify it; they'd be in a much better position to make that kind of decision than SNC, which previously hasn't done anything more than subcontracting.

The relevant 'political landscape' is the existence of congress, hence CXP being brought back from the dead by it despite the change in administration.

SLS exists because of parts of the politicial landscape that aren't changing anytime soon. There was no industry based on X-33 or X-38, but the people behind Freedom got ISS, and now that's going they get the SLS core stage. The shuttle workforce gets CXP, and the CXP workforce gets SLS. As far as we can tell SLS is doable with flat budget, so it'll probably reach the flight article point, but if it does it's immaterial. The rocket is a side effect. No program for that has got past the council of ministers. Crewed flight doesn't fit in with the ESA ethos.

Have you? Space Station Freedom was roughly two decades late and still got launched. Everything else got hit by budget or technical hurdles, not time pressures.

Have you all forgotten what industry this is? If delay of LVs led to cancellation, there wouldn't be any LVs.

Depends who's offering. I wouldn't get in SS2 if you paid me, for example.

As long as you avoid fish, or fortified (i.e. the vast majority in western countries) milk, cereals, margarine, and plenty of others; and ignore the fact that supplements are actually available; then this is true. EDIT: Do you have the proverb 'only mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun'? Or is that just an english thing?

Roughly translated to British, that's 'don't be a bigoted tosser'.

By removing the link you've removed all context for the picture.

A shooter with co-op RPG/MMORPG elements. A bit like borderlands, except with MMO-style shared servers, and without the humour. Well, without deliberate humour anyway...

People in 2014 are laughing at this list.

If a rocket is malfunctioning badly enough to consider blowing it up, you can't assume it's going to be flying in the right direction.

Leaving aside any explicit requirements, passengers on Soyuz have to pass the same physical as russian cosmonauts; a minor hasn't a snowballs chance in hell of doing that.

There are no launch opportunities for non-inclined LEO orbits, so we've no other choice.

That's not what was meant by resources. You can't build a nuke out of dollar bills, no matter how many you have.

It's very much verified; we're not talking about some exotic testbed, this has been mass-produced for decades and exported to multiple countries.

NASA's free rides (the ELANA programme) are all through rocket launches; deployment from the ISS is run by the Nanoracks corporation, not NASA. In that case, deployment would be with the standard spring-loaded cubesat deployed, the P-POD.

NASA only provides free rides for American educational payloads.

The only people that can give you a real figure are the people at Antrix/CGWIC. The numbers are right there.