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ISS Oxygen Generator Fails for Good

Posted by Zonk on from the totally-not-worried-at-all-nope-uh-uh dept.

billyj4 writes "A balky Russian oxygen generator broke down on the International Space Station, but its two-man crew has a reserve air supply that would last about five months, NASA officials said Friday. The station's primary generator, which has been operating in an on-again, off-again fashion for months, stopped working last week and the station's crew has not been able to fix it. Mission managers say the unit has failed for good. Consequently, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and U.S. astronaut John Phillips will be relying on reserves until replacement parts arrive at the station in late August."

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  1. Re:ITS A DUPE by utexaspunk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    why do y'all gotta bitch about dupes all the time? this isn't really a capital-N News site, it's a community. It's like the nerd table in high school. The articles serve as fodder for conversation- hypothesizing about the future, bitching about MS or whatnot, making stupid jokes, etc. So, sometimes people come back to the same topic, and even rehash the same arguments. Get over it!

  2. Re:Must find by mr_snarf · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In Soviet Russia, Oxygen generates YOU!
    Well, actually, in this case it doesn't :)
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    printf("Goodbye cruel world!\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b");
  3. Who needs it!? by IcarusMoth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I mean all Oxygen does is show Lifetime movies and "Oprah after the show". And I think we can all do with less of that.

  4. Re:How did the Generator Fail? by stlhawkeye · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, I hate it almost as much as when people take comments seriously that are clearly not meant to be taken seriously.

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    "I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
  5. Re:Mmm, air by macidiot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that made diet dr. pepper come out of my nose... thanks. :)

  6. Re:Obligatory..... by phoenix42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in soviet russian oxygen generator breaks you!

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  7. woops? by SComps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Published under license from FLORIDA TODAY. Copyright © 2005 FLORIDA TODAY. No portion of this material may be reproduced in any way without the written consent of FLORIDA TODAY.

    Let's hope they got permission or nobody from Florida Today reads Slashdot. *grin*

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