[FPSPACE] ISS lifeboat shortage

[Allen Thomson]

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041126-121743-6276r.htm

 Space station future adrift
 By Philip Chien
 SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
  27 November 2004
 [EXCERPT]

"NASA and the nations involved in the International Space Station project 
will run out of emergency rescue craft within 18 months and have not decided 
what to do after April 2006, when the final Russian Soyuz spacecraft leaves 
the station and returns to Earth. "


[Various options discussed, problems with Iran Non-Proliferation Act.]