It's the sort of reasoning we on Earth can certainly understand.
If you want to save money on travel, make fewer trips, right?
That's the line of thinking at Russia's cash-strapped space agency,
where officials Tuesday announced plans to extend astronauts' stays
aboard the International Space Station by six months -- effectively
doubling the tour of duty.
Almost six and a half months in space just isn't long enough for
Astronaut Michael Foale and Cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri. They're
going to have to stay one more day.
Orbital Recovery says it's formally initiated the development of
its ConeXpress ORS space tug in a program leading to the start of
full-scale production this September, and the first launch in
2007.
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