Sunday, May 12, 2013

Space Station Crew Prepare For Emergency Spacewalk

Well, jklovanc is getting hammered by the mods, but he has a point. We really aren't ready for space until you can actually do that sort of thing without a three week simulator run.

This is EXACTLY why we need to keep going round and round in LEO until it's really, really boring and second nature*. If we plan on getting past the moon, we have to develop technologies and procedures that allow us to fix things promptly.

* This is not to imply that the ONLY thing we should be doing is the ISS. We should be fu

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/mH6fUg92EmU/story01.htm

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