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Spacewalking Astronauts Finish Extensive, Tricky Cable Job
An anonymous reader writes news about a three-day cable job completed outside the International Space Station. "Spacewalking astronauts successfully completed a three-day cable job outside the International Space Station on Sunday, routing several-hundred feet of power and data lines for new crew capsules commissioned by NASA. It was the third spacewalk in just over a week for Americans Terry Virts and Butch Wilmore, and the quickest succession of spacewalks since NASA's former shuttle days. The advance work was needed for the manned spacecraft under development by Boeing and SpaceX. A pair of docking ports will fly up later this year, followed by the capsules themselves, with astronauts aboard, in 2017."
... Larry?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Now let them rest a bit then send them to Arizona
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Considering (unmanned) SpaceX Dragon capsules already regularly dock with the space station, why do they need new cabling for what is essentially the same operation?
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There are satellites exploding up there!
We should learn what we need to know about issues, before we decide what we need to feel about them.
Thank you for correcting our interest in space.
I'm sure all of humanity will never again wonder if they can travel through it.
We should learn what we need to know about issues, before we decide what we need to feel about them.
Yeah, cause Mars Exploration Rover, GRAIL, Dawn, New Frontiers, Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Spitzer and Kepler telescopes, all those things are boring science. Only nerds find things like discovering Earthlike exoplanets or determining the origin of the Moon thrilling. They should get their own news site so the rest of us don't have listen to stuff that only matters to them.
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We can. We've done it. Now what? We also know its size and emptiness. So what?
Excuse me, and the connection to the ISS?
It doesn't. The parent said our space program sucked. I was pointing out that for a program that sucks it does some pretty awesome stuff.
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Of course it doesn't suck. You need air for suction.
What's with the water? I thought they had this problem fixed.
AT&T and Comcast immediately filed suit claiming unfair competition from a government agency, stating they were planning on installing their own fiber network "any day now".