Seems to me that the tolerances for these devices needed to be a little looser to stop this jamming under high heating conditions. One day they will not get...

I guess the two spurious secondary alarms after the main one which were supposedly fires in two different modules were caused by sudden termination of some...

Well, it sounds all very 'seat of the pants' kind of stuff in a Soyuz to me, though they seem to have a procedure for everything, it still sounds like...

So, when is the new unit to process urine going to be launched, and has anyone any idea why two units had such short lives? From what I'm given to...

Are these groups till updating. Also see news has stalled. Brian -- -- From the sofa of Brian Gaff - Blind user, so no pictures...

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I see a press release about the commercial manned vehicles getting closer to flight tests, but realistically, will there be actual customers for three...

You know with the release of The safety report etc, it sort of came to mind that assuming the station makes it to 2024, what then? Its only a decade away,...

I would remind those uploading he space calendar to the sci.space.news group that we are now in April. Also nobody ever puts news up there these days. I find...

Its interesting to note that false alarms that sound in the night afflict the station just like they do down here... Brian -- Brian Gaff -...

Hi, I note with interest after the eva yesterday that once again, some less than sophisticated techniques were used to free attachments. In a way its...

Last night, shortly after the Shuttle docked to the station, I heard Frank or is that Franck?, talking in the foreign on the 2 metre ham band approx...

I would have thought that drinking more fluids might help a canister work as you would sweat it out more. One does not want to dehydrate for many reasons....

I notice that they have the same windows issues we do. I heard them discussing the wonderful, xxx has encountered a problem and has to close message just...

So, the launch site in Japan cannot launch during the fishing season? Who decided to put the launch site there.. some mistake with hindsight! Brian --...

One would have thought that in space, where mainly temperature cycling occurs, that this would make fasteners and bolts less of a problem to undo after long...

Nice to see that Care in the Community is working so well. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the...

Well, reading the news release about the new crews and the changes to the crews already assigned leads me to think that whoever is planning this is just...

Well it seems this is indeed going to be done. I heard it on the European press event the other day. They will leave one after the Shuttle retires,...

To delete this and the news group as being totally useless, and try to find something else to read without having to resort to browsing web pages set out in...