It Gets Better

Our Space Policy Chickens Have Come Home To Roost: "But wait! It gets better.  There was supposed to be a crew delivery to the station next month, and it was planned to go up on…you guessed it…the same type of rocket that failed today. If crew had been on today’s flight, they might have survived (the Soyuz has an abort system), but there’s a good chance they would have been injured — cosmonauts have been injured severely enough to end their careers in previous similar aborts.  So now plans for crew replacement this fall are on hold.


How did we get into this mess?"

H/T Glenn.