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- From: strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore)
- Subject: Re: Air ops vs. space ops (was Re: DC vs Shuttle capabilities)
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- Organization: The Voice of Fate
- References: <BzHH37.9r5@zoo.toronto.edu> <9ls2_fp@rpi.edu> <1992Dec22.113157.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:12:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.113157.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
- >In article <9ls2_fp@rpi.edu>, strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore) writes:
- >
- >See *2010*. The first cosmonaut across uses an MMU. She brings a
- >rope with her. Subsequent transfers are straightforward (if the
- >engineers have done their jobs on handling of this tethered system!).
- >
- Saw it. Also noticed several mistakes in it. For example
- at one point they had "gravity" in a non-rotating part of the ship. :-)
- (Hmm, should have hired McClewin (sp?)
-
- Anyway, the key phrase is "... if the engineers...." This will
- take some practice and work. The engineers thought they had modelled
- Instelstat Vi rescue well.
-
- This by the way this one reason I support NASA's decision to
- fly more EVA's. I think the more experience in EVA the better. Perhaps
- it won't be an astronaut who doe sthe above, but an astronaut. :-)
-
- > (deleted wing-walking/jerry can story.) Very interesting though.
-
- >Given proper equipment and training in both cases, an in-space
- >transfer or refueling operation *is* less dangerous than the
- >equivalent in mid-air.
- >
- >> I'm not saying it can't be done, or that it won't be done.
- >> Simply that some thought and PRACTICE will have to go into it.
- >
- >Right.
- >
- >Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey | "I'm gonna keep on writing songs
- >Fermilab | until I write the song
- >Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | that makes the guys in Detroit
- >Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | who draw the cars
- >SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | put tailfins on 'em again."
- > --John Prine
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