New space station crew to launch into orbit tonight

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Source: MSNBC

Three spaceflyers will launch to the International Space Station tonight (Nov. 13), to begin a months-long mission to the orbiting outpost.

NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are slated to launch aboard a Russian-built Soyuz rocket tonight at 11:14 p.m. ET (0415 GMT Nov. 14) from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Tonight's liftoff will be the first manned flight of the Soyuz rocket since the Russian-built booster suffered a failure in August. It will also be the first trio of station crewmembers to launch to the complex since NASA grounded its fleet of space shuttles in July after 30 years of service.

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Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45277363/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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1. Impossible, Prick Rarry said Russia is on the ash-heap of history.

[stevedeshazer]

2. I love it.

But, how sick is it that we have to rely on the Russians to do this?

[tridim]

5. The space race is over.

It sucks that we weren't more proactive as the Shuttle program ended, but International cooperation isn't a bad thing.

And for the record, the US still maintains a huge advantage in deep space exploration.

[Doc_Technical]

6. With the exception that

Russia (Soviet Union) is the only country to
successfully land a functioning spacecraft on
the surface of Venus.

[onehandle]

3. I remember when we had a space program. nt

[plumbob]

7. Me, too. It only created every bit of technology currently in use.

Ah, well, deliberately surrendering to third world status was a little strange, but perhaps it will be best in the long run to have us gone as a major power.

[PavePusher]

10. Careful now, the denyers will be out to castigate you.

Happend to me here once.

[HopeHoops]

4. Damn I hope they make it safely. Russia's had some pretty major failures recently.

[1620rock]

8. Space? We have no time for science or space, we have WARS to start!!!

[HopeHoops]

9. Oh, right.

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11. NASA Could Be Using Some of the $2.3 Trillion (that DOD misplaced) To Launch It's Own Rockets!

http://www.oilempire.us/trillions.html