NASA & RUSSIA.
A very interesting article:
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2008-09-05/NASA_astronauts_at_risk_over_Georgian_conflict.html?gclid=CMPmg7nIp54CFSkHswodUkGvlg
FWIW
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I know that the shuttle is considered as 'opsolete' (no longer in use); it's ok since it was not obsolete (and my husband actually helped to refurbish the shuttle's main engines' (Pratt & Whitney's) liquid oxygen pump and turbine for shuttle's main engines; et al... really, it's ok.
It's ok, really.
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To all those men and women that participated in the shuttle program... THANK YOU!
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Now, (even though we're no longer involved)... let's go to Mars.