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Universe Today said:
Restoring America’s ability to once again launch US astronauts to
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(ISS) from US soil on US rockets took another significant step forward when NASA ordered the first the agency’s first
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rotation mission from the Hawthorne, California based-company
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. NASA and SpaceX hope that the blastoff with a crew of up to four astronauts will take place by late 2017.

The new Nov. 20 award from NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) office to launch the
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Crew Dragon capsule follows up on an earlier commercial crew rotation mission
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of Houston to launch its
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.

Since the retirement of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters in 2011, all American and ISS partner astronauts have been forced to hitch a ride on the Russian Soyuz capsule for flights
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and back, at a current cost of over $70 million per seat.

“The authority to proceed with Dragon’s first operational crew mission is a significant milestone in the Commercial Crew Program and a great source of pride for the entire SpaceX team,” said Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, in a statement.

“When Crew Dragon takes NASA astronauts to the space station in 2017, they will be riding in one of the safest, most reliable spacecraft ever flown. We’re honored to be developing this capability for NASA and our country.”

However, actually achieving crew launches by both Boeing and SpaceX before the end of 2017 is completely contingent on whether the companies can satisfactorily meet all of NASA’s human spaceflight certification milestones specifying the vehicles are fully capable and safe for astronauts to fly.

Both companies also plan to conduct unmanned and manned orbital test flights of their crew capsules earlier in 2017, paving the path to orbit prior to initiating the commercial crew rotation missions.

This is the second in a series of four guaranteed orders NASA will make under the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts.

NASA is making the awards now to both SpaceX and Boeing since it’s expected to take a lead time of about 2 or 3 years to assemble all the hardware required to manufacture the Crew Dragon and Starliner CST-100, respectively, into fully functioning spaceships.

Boeing and SpaceX were
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worth $6.8 Billion to complete the development and manufacture of the privately developed Starliner CST-100 and Crew Dragon astronaut transporters under the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) program and NASA’s Launch America initiative.

“It’s really exciting to see SpaceX and Boeing with hardware in flow for their first crew rotation missions,” said Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

“It is important to have at least two healthy and robust capabilities from U.S. companies to deliver crew and critical scientific experiments from American soil to the space station throughout its lifespan.”

Crew Dragon will launch atop a SpaceX
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rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from NASA’s historic Launch Pad 39A where American astronauts shot to space and the Moon atop America’s Saturn V Moon rockets and the Space Shuttle orbiters.

At a later date NASA will decide which company will fly the first commercial crew rotation mission to the ISS.

Both the CST-100 and Crew Dragon will typically carry a crew of four or five NASA or NASA-sponsored crew members, along with some 220 pounds of pressurized cargo. Each will also be capable of carrying up to seven crew members depending on how the capsule is configured.

Very glad to see this. Space-X is a decent company with a great design.
 
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister calls out US belligerence.

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US warship's South China Sea intrusion 'political provocation': senior Chinese diplomat

(Xinhua) Updated: 2015-11-22 17:02
KUALA LUMPUR - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin on Sunday criticized the intrusion of US warship which sailed within 12 nautical miles of a Chinese reef in the South China Sea as a "political provocation" in the name of "freedom of navigation."

The true purpose of the US intrusion is to test how China will react to this kind of provocations, Liu said at a press briefing on the sidelines of the 27th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits.

 

Jeff Head

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Chinese Vice Foreign Minister calls out US belligerence.
FON is not political...no more than the PLAN using reclamation to create new island in the SCS is political.

The truth is that the US is testing to see how China will react to a US vessel exercising FON within 12 miles of the new, man-made islands. That's the whole point. To see if the PRC will allow FON or not.

But though it is a new article, with a different PCR Vice-Minister speaking...it is not a new, breaking news story.

It is the same basic response as a few weeks ago to the exercise after it happened.
 
Cathay Pacific Safest Airline of 2014, Eva Air is third

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RANK AIRLINE CODECS COUNTRY INDEX 2015
1 Cathay Pacific Airways CX, CPA China,Hong-Kong 0,006
2 Emirates EK, UAE UAE 0,007
3 EVA Air BR, EVA Taiwan 0,008
4 Air Canada AC, ACA Canada 0,010
5 KLM KL, KLM Netherlands 0,011
6 Air New Zealand NZ, ANZ New Zealand 0,011
7 QANTAS QF, QFA Australia 0,013
8 Hainan Airlines HU, CHH China 0,014
9 JetBlue Airlines B6, JBU USA 0,014
10 Etihad Airways EY, ETD UAE 0,014
11 All Nippon Airways NH, ANA Japan 0,015
12 Lufthansa LH, DLH Germany 0,016
13 TAP Portugal TP, TAP Portugal 0,017
14 British Airways BA, BAW United Kingdom 0,019
15 Virgin Australia VA, VOZ Australia 0,019
16 Virgin Atlantic Airways VS, VIR United Kingdom 0,023
17 Transaero Airlines UN, TSO Russia 0,024
18 Shenzhen Airlines ZH, CSZ China 0,024
19 WestJet Airlines WS, WJA Canada 0,024
20 Air Berlin AB, BER Germany 0,026
21 Qatar Airways QR, QTR Qatar 0,027
22 EasyJet U2, EZY United Kingdom 0,027
23 Sichuan Airlines 3U, CSC China 0,029
24 Southwest Airlines WN, SWA USA 0,033
25 Jetstar Airways JQ, JST Australia 0,033
26 Delta Air Lines DL, DAL USA 0,037
27 Thomson Airways BY, TOM United Kingdom 0,041
28 Norwegian Air Shuttle DY, NAX Norway 0,043
29 Singapore Airlines SQ, SIA Singapore 0,053
30 United Airlines UA, UAL USA 0,057
31 Swiss LX, SWR Switzerland 0,059
32 Ryanair FR, RYR Ireland 0,071
33 China Eastern Airlines MU, CES China 0,075
34 Jet Airways 9W, JAI India 0,075
35 Aeroflot – Russian Airlines SU, AFL Russia 0,106
36 LAN Airlines LA, LAN Chile 0,112
37 Alitalia AZ, AZA Italy 0,112
38 Air France AF, AFR France 0,137
39 American Airlines AA, AAL USA 0,143
40 Air China CA, CCA China 0,151
41 Iberia IB, IBE Spain 0,171
42 Alaska Airlines AS, ASA USA 0,171
43 US Airways US, AWE USA 0,172
44 Japan Airlines JL, JAL Japan 0,204
45 China Southern Airlines CZ, CSN China 0,212
46 Asiana Airlines OZ, AAR South Korea 0,231
47 Thai Airways International TG, THA Thailand 0,250
48 SAS Scandinavian Airlines SK, SAS Scandinavia 0,278
49 Turkish Airlines TK, THY Turkey 0,343
50 Korean Air KE, KAL South Korea 0,376
51 Copa Airlines CM, CMP Panama 0,502
52 Saudia SV, SVA Saudi Arabia 0,566
53 GOL Transportes Aéreos G3, GLO Brazil 0,614
54 Xiamen Airlines MF, CXA China 0,620
55 TAM Airlines JJ, TAM Brazil 0,743
56 Garuda GA, GIA Indonesia 0,757
57 Malaysia Airlines MH, MAS Malaysia 0,766
58 Air India AI, AIC India 0,970
59 China Airlines CI, CAL Taiwan 1,089
60 Lion Air JT, LNI Indonesia 1,265
 

delft

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The Dutch radio station BNR just said that according to Interfax the aircraft shot down is Russian so presumably a Su-24.
 

GreenestGDP

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Is there any doubt now that ERDOGAN,
HAKAN FIDAN
and who was recently elected again
the present TURKEY government is =
daesh Scoundrel Master ??



The next logical question is ... ...
Are most Turkish population supporting Daesh ISIS as
shown by their leaders ERDOGAN and HAKAN FIDAN ?

How many percent of Turkish citizens are supporting Daesh ISIS ?

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Ankara--- Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known by the MİT acronym, has drawn a lot of attention and criticism for his controversial comments about ISIS. ... ...

Mr. Hakan Fidan, Turkish President's staunchest ally, condemned Russian military intervention in Syria, accusing Moscow of trying to 'smother' daesh

ISIS is a reality and we have to accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organized and popular establishment such as the daesh; therefore I urge my western colleagues to revise their mindset about Islamic political currents, put aside their cynical mentalité and thwart Vladimir Putin's plans to crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries,” Anadolu News Agency quoted Mr. Fidan as saying on Sunday.
... ...


... Fidan further added that in order to deal with the vast number of foreign Jihadists craving to travel to Syria, it is imperative that Daesh must set up a consulate or at least a political office in Istanbul. ... ...

countless number of ISIS injured fighters enter the Turkish territory and are being admitted in the military hospitals namely those in Hatay Province....


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Thank you so much Shahryar Hedayat for
enlightening and revealing to all of us ... ...
Turkish President Recep Erdogan, Hakan Fidan Turkish Spymaster,
and his cronies are one of the true Daesh ISIS masters.

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