[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I think everyone is still dumbfounded that NASA now has no way to get their astronauts to the ISS except to rely on the Russians. Then again, I'm from a country that has carriers but no CAP aircraft for them.

Lovely pic by the way.

Originally Posted by Oberon

Oh, I'm not saying that it's the end of US space travel, I'm just surprised that this wasn't thought of twenty years ago and a new design brought in to be put into service when the shuttles retired. But...like I said, we've done the same thing in our military so I really can't talk.

Precisely