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minus-squareIHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·9 days agoCan’t wait until NASA has to ask China to please go do deliveries to the ISS for them.
minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 days agoIt’s actually an open question if that’s even technically possible. The Chinese crewed spacecraft Shenzhou is based heavily on the Russian Soyuz, but there’s very little public technical info on how much they changed the docking system.
minus-squareNuraShiny [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 days agoSo in the worst case, they might have to do a space walk. Doesn’t seem impossible.
minus-squareBartsbigbugbag@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoDoesn’t the Wolfe amendment or whatever it’s called explicitly prohibit cooperation with the Chinese space agency?
minus-squareIHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoYeah i think NASA has even been asking for exceptions to it and congress wont do it lol
Can’t wait until NASA has to ask China to please go do deliveries to the ISS for them.
It’s actually an open question if that’s even technically possible. The Chinese crewed spacecraft Shenzhou is based heavily on the Russian Soyuz, but there’s very little public technical info on how much they changed the docking system.
So in the worst case, they might have to do a space walk. Doesn’t seem impossible.
Doesn’t the Wolfe amendment or whatever it’s called explicitly prohibit cooperation with the Chinese space agency?
Yeah i think NASA has even been asking for exceptions to it and congress wont do it lol