David Spain wrote:
Frogwatch writes:

On Mar 12, 2:42 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Life extension concepts are being
discussed:http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1003/11station/ ...one
problem in doing this is that, like Mir, you would then be using
equipment that was never rated for anywhere this long of orbital
lifetime, so you can expect a lot of failures as things wear out.

Pat

How could you make ISS "upgradable"? After all, it seems a shame to
de-orbit it just when it gets finished and it has yet to accomplish
anything.

Keep extending along Truss 1? Close off the inner modules as they
become inhabitable? Like an orbital Scrabble(tm) game.


It wouldn't be easy, but I think it's possible you could do it if you really
wanted to.


?

Dave

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