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Int'l Space Station threatened by war in the Caucuses
Wednesday August 20, @02:25PM
According to this report in the Washington Post, the ISS program could become a casualty of the war in the Caucuses. Our current space shuttle craft will be retired in 2010, with no replacements until 2015. In the meantime, in order for NASA to contract with Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, Congress would have to pass a waiver to a 2000 law forbidding government contracts with nations that help Iran and North Korea with their nuclear programs, as Russia has done. Even before the war in the Caucuses this was controversial, now the ISS mission is at great risk. It would be a shame if the ISS mission were jeprodized over this, a real shame.
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It was a duplicate of a previous story, though I can't find the original posting. I preserved the front page article, though, as part of my "Ghosts of Slashdot" journal entries. Here it is -- the editors changed the capitalization, but not the spelling of "Caucasus": Ghost Article: ISS Threatened by War in The Caucuses [slashdot.org]
Samsenpus gave your entry the subtitle of "from the no-space-for-you dept."