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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Kosh: It is internationally recognized that NO ONE will put more people in orbit than they have the ability to bring back down - it's just common sense. The station is plenty capable (or at least WILL be capable) of supporting more than the current crew of three, but they're not going to do it unless they can bring everyone back if need be. One of the big concerns about the ISS is that the shelving of the X-38 Crew Return Vehicle has effectively eliminated the ability to have a crew of six or seven on the station - the capacity of the long-duration CRV capsule. Russian Soyuz capsules can only take three people, plus are replaced every six months (they can only last in space for a year AT MOST). Furthermore, the Russians are only contracted to provide Soyuz capsules for so long.. The CRV was to replace them by 2006, but this ain't gonna happen. A few weeks ago a bunch of ISS people resolved that increasing the crew of the ISS is imperative to accomplish the goals of the station (the crew of three have barely any time to work on science as so much time is spent just keeping the station going), and so are hoping to allocate the funding to have the Russians provide two Soyuz capsules to ISS at a time. This will double the crew capacity of the station, and allow for most of the science objectives the station is designed to do. It's unknown if they'll provide more Progress resupply ships to match, or if they'll need to if the ESA can finish off the Jules Verne ATV... Unfortunately the station will never be at its designed effectiveness without the cancelled habitation, propulsion and additional lab modules, but that's a whole other thread. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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