bad news, The ISS is made to work in low earth orbit under the Van Allen belts. the radiation is to much outside of the VA belt.
Great idea but the ISS is forever stuck in LEO.
Remember that media are looking for ratings so they blow everything out of proportion (as they did with the coverage of tiles & the ding in the window in this case, the computers going down in the last mission, the blanket pulling away on the mission before that)
In previous missions, shuttles have come back with MISSING tiles. If it wasn't for Columba and ALL the checking they do NOW, we wouldn't have know about these damaged tiles until after C had landed.
The damaged tiles are NOT that bad. The crew will make it back safely. it will cause some work to be done to fix the results but nothing bad. (they are figuring that it may take up to 12 weeks to fix, most of that time will in normal processing of the craft for the next launch)
What this will do is verify all there analyzing and testing they did. on the next launch or two most likely they will plan a real test of patching tiles (within the shuttle bay for safety) and do the ark jet testing when they get home.
Remember that if they had done the repair, they could have done a LOT more damage if something went wrong in the process and then they will be having to do a rescue mission to return the crew. (Endeavour would have been dumped in the oshon, they would have taken MANY RISKS to get the next shuttle up to the station and the shuttle program would come to an END)
The next space craft (Orion) is in the works but will not be operational until 2014.
If you are going to follow the space program, please go to a real site for your info and not those news sites that are just looking for ratings.
please check out the site www.nasaspaceflight.com
think of it as slashdot for the space program but with insider info (it has a public and pay sections)
BTW- did you stop driving over bridges when that last bridge collapse? I don't thick so! Are they now out checking/fixing the bridges now, YES. Should the shuttle program come to a stop because of a little damage, NO.
Are they going to fix the problem of the large chunks of foam falling off, yes over time. do you stop using a computer because of the bugs in the software, no but you fix them as soon as you can.
has anyone else noticed that Yahoo is on multiple spam lists (psbl.surriel.com, bl.spamcop.net)?
we had to stop using the psbl list at work (college) as we have so many students with yahoo accounts and the faculty stopped getting emails from their students.
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bad news, The ISS is made to work in low earth orbit under the Van Allen belts. the radiation is to much outside of the VA belt. Great idea but the ISS is forever stuck in LEO.
remember there are metal joints in the space suit and as he is floating inside the suit, who knows what metal he could in contact at any second.
Remember that media are looking for ratings so they blow everything out of proportion (as they did with the coverage of tiles & the ding in the window in this case, the computers going down in the last mission, the blanket pulling away on the mission before that) In previous missions, shuttles have come back with MISSING tiles. If it wasn't for Columba and ALL the checking they do NOW, we wouldn't have know about these damaged tiles until after C had landed. The damaged tiles are NOT that bad. The crew will make it back safely. it will cause some work to be done to fix the results but nothing bad. (they are figuring that it may take up to 12 weeks to fix, most of that time will in normal processing of the craft for the next launch) What this will do is verify all there analyzing and testing they did. on the next launch or two most likely they will plan a real test of patching tiles (within the shuttle bay for safety) and do the ark jet testing when they get home. Remember that if they had done the repair, they could have done a LOT more damage if something went wrong in the process and then they will be having to do a rescue mission to return the crew. (Endeavour would have been dumped in the oshon, they would have taken MANY RISKS to get the next shuttle up to the station and the shuttle program would come to an END) The next space craft (Orion) is in the works but will not be operational until 2014. If you are going to follow the space program, please go to a real site for your info and not those news sites that are just looking for ratings. please check out the site www.nasaspaceflight.com think of it as slashdot for the space program but with insider info (it has a public and pay sections) BTW- did you stop driving over bridges when that last bridge collapse? I don't thick so! Are they now out checking/fixing the bridges now, YES. Should the shuttle program come to a stop because of a little damage, NO. Are they going to fix the problem of the large chunks of foam falling off, yes over time. do you stop using a computer because of the bugs in the software, no but you fix them as soon as you can.
has anyone else noticed that Yahoo is on multiple spam lists (psbl.surriel.com, bl.spamcop.net)? we had to stop using the psbl list at work (college) as we have so many students with yahoo accounts and the faculty stopped getting emails from their students.