Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: record 19 people in space right now Date: 14 Sep 2024 03:33:04 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net IVRKpRIRBU3bRGehAwRZvgrZBfN2lwajqE3ksOjJO+IlD0jmVl X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:OT7sQ+0ScyQ3hMfAGzUesmOGpFs= sha256:laUPZd53+Dd4WtjoybHdImdqb5PbRS3KVWZFkMTa8XM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 2278 In article , Cryptoengineer wrote: >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 Are you counting alien abductees, crusaders & Roman Legionaires? -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..