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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: record 19 people in space right now Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:54:41 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 02:54:42 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c4a4a77cc46f34230002487e89cf370e"; logging-data="1181877"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Xgn12DvWEfdY+J8XhKbGnm9AbWGIWQ/o=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:A0LFbdMksvGeUtJ+vLWkrRHMMnE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2315 On 9/13/2024 4:42 PM, Ted Nolan wrote: > In article , > Lynn McGuire wrote: >> From one of my buddies: >> >> “If I'm counting correctly, there are a record 19 people in space right >> now. There is the normal 7 person ISS crew, the two astronauts that >> flew to ISS on the Boeing Starliner test flight, the three who just >> arrived on ISS via the Russian Soyuz for a standard crew rotation, the >> four commercial astronauts on the Polaris Dawn Dragon mission, and the >> three crew on the Chinese space station. That's 7 + 2 + 3 + 4 +3 = 19.” >> >> Amazing. Maybe we will hit 100 in the next ten years. >> > > That we know of! Here's a thought experiment. Would it be possible to launch a manned rocket into orbit secretly? I don't think it could be done without Russia and the US noticing, due to their missile tracking radars. The actual launch might be hidden, by launching from a ship in the empty part of the South Pacific, but once in orbit it would be picked up. Rocket launches are visible literally hundreds of miles away at night, maybe less so in the day. Clouds would help. Perhaps if it wasn't launched to orbit, but directly to planetary space? pt