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NASA Engineers Question ISS Safety

Posted by michael on from the in-the-event-of-a-water-landing dept.

Atryn writes "New Scientist is reporting concerns over deteriorating equipment on ISS. ISS will celebrate another anniversary on Nov 2 marking its 3rd complete year. This story was also covered on CNN International and covered on Space.com."

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  1. Re:I heard... by bombadillo · · Score: 2, Informative

    "I heard a program was being put in place to get together new equipment, repair old equipment etc a while back, I wonder what happened to that?"

    Dick Cheney's New America is what happened.

  2. Where did Velcro come from? by afniv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although the space industry has developed countless technologies used in everyday (and not so everyday) life, Velcro and Tang are not among them.

    Velcro history

    To see real space based technologies hop over to a this NASA site.

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    ~afniv
    "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
    Richard von Weizs
  3. Re:Too bad by ucblockhead · · Score: 2, Informative

    Velcro came from someone in Switzerland who got burrs in his pants while walking his dog.

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    The cake is a pie
  4. Re:Rotates for Artificial Gravity by DanielRavenNest · · Score: 5, Informative

    As I write, I'm in the computer lab where we're
    testing the software for the "Centrifuge Module",
    which is in the queue to be attached to the
    station eventually. The centrifuge will be
    able to spin lab animals at various levels of
    gravity so that we can learn what happens to
    them beween 0 and 1 gee.

    So far we know that at 1 gee, everything is
    normal, and at zero gee your body figures it
    doesn't need bones anymore, so they atrophy.
    What we need to find out is what happens at
    1/6 gee (Moon), 0.38 gee (Mars), and various
    levels of gravity up to 1 gee spinning (because
    that might be different in its effects than
    1 gee not spinning here on Earth).

    With this knowledge we will have some idea
    how to design for lunar bases, mars bases,
    and long duration travel (mars and asteroids).

    Daniel