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ISS Oxygen Generator Fails

Posted by michael on from the hope-you're-handy-with-a-wrench dept.

caino59 writes "It hasn't been too long since the food shortage on the International Space Station - now the main oxygen generator has failed. Apparently, the backup supply should allow them to make it to 60 days, which is past the next scheduled trip up. Hopefully, previous crews didn't hog all the O2."

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  1. Re:ISS vs MIR failure rates? by Rocket_Sci · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I'm not sure if that is true of not... MIR was a much smaller design. Here are two things I do know about MIR:

    --There was a major fire in 1997, the crew was barely able to extinguish it before it killed them (story here).

    --We have no idea what the failure rate of equipment on MIR was before the USSR collapsesd. Who knows what might have happened up there. It was not reported in the press.

    --Here is list of problems on MIR: (list)