How many people are in space right now?

Aha it has gone down. This proves most of site which come on front page of HN go down with ease due to heavy traffic !

A few years ago when I was living in China I was told about this, but it never worked.

Then on a hunch I fired up my proxy and discovered that the Chinese government was actively censoring it.

WHY

Expedition 37 with a crew of 6 are in space right now. 2 America, 3 Russian, 1 Italian. The last three launching Yesterday

"Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy to the International Space Station."

http://www.nasa.gov/content/expedition-37-soyuz-launch/#.UkQ...

Edit: CORRECTION this is the SECOND half of the Expedition 37 crew launching 25 September 2013, 20:58:50 UTC aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M. They are expected to return 12 March 2014. The other three were launched in may.

Dear website owners,

Please take the time to set up a service like CloudFlare[0]. It's free, and will prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes. There's really no downside.

Regards, Frustrated User

[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/

No need for a CDN for a site like this; the content should be completely static and regenerated whenever it changes.