Soyuz Failure Highlights

摘要

The Aug. 24 failure of a Russian Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Progress capsule filled with international space station supplies illustrates, as much as anything else, the tendency of politicians to interpret events in ways that suit their pre-existing agendas. For U.S. lawmakers who spoke out about the failure, its meaning appears closely tied to where they stand on a pair of NASA human spaceflight initiatives that while complementary in theory, are in reality competitors for near-term funding.