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Space Station Dogged By Oxygen Problems

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the room-to-breathe dept.

Alien54 writes "All of the Russian made Elektron oxygen generators on the International Space Station have failed. The three Elektron units on board the space station are the last of their kind. The company that manufactured them has gone out of business, and the engineer who almost single-handedly made the final adjustments of flight units died several years ago. Reportedly he retained some 'trade secret' about the final adjustments of the devices -- and it died with him. But NASA is not alarmed."

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  1. OMG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thats so gay. Did you practice this technique on your dad?

  2. Meanwhile in Soviet Russia... by polyp2000 · · Score: -1, Troll

    All your oxygen are belong to us.

    --
    Electronic Music Made Using Linux http://soundcloud.com/polyp
  3. Abandon the ISS NOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    For christ's sake, NASA PLEASE give up on the ISS and de-orbit it, or send it to crash on the moon, or just get rid of it so we can stop spending our hard-earned dollars on the waste of time of having a space hotel.

    All the money sunk into the ISS (read: propping up the soviet union) could have been better spent on shuttle replacements, healthcare, and schools.

  4. Where's the Russia joke? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Here's the perfect opportunity for the Russia joke and nobody says anything?

    You do realize that it's a Russian piece of hardware that failed, not American, right?