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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: record 19 people in space right now
Date: 14 Sep 2024 03:33:04 GMT
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In article <vc2msh$1425l$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 9/13/2024 4:42 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <vc2601$115s1$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> 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

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