"Clark" stillnospam@me wrote:
"Terrell Miller" wrote:
"Clark" stillnospam@me wrote:

do you really want the person working the robot arm to be the same
person that worked themselves to the brink of exchaustion theprevious
day doing an 8-hour EVA?

I'd prefer that they work no one to the brink of exhaustion around billion
dollar vehicles.

Hmmm, "brink of exhaustion"? maybe, maybe not.

You are getting sucked into a frivolous argument.

Try "definitely". And try reading about how easy it is to do work in a
pressurized spacesuit. Example: the glove tips pinch your fingers so
tight that your fingernails can turn black from all the blood pooling
behind them.

And you want to go to Mars?

I'll stand by my maybe. Please demonstrate that *every* EVA resulted in
exhausted personnel. There is a huge difference between tired and hurting
and
exhausted, medically speaking. Hint, exhausted people don't repeat the
cycle
in two days.

Even on the moon, the Apollo astronauts struggled in their moon suits. I
guess we are stuck in the 70s. Mars?

Didn't think so. Oh, and with a crew of four, one of each pair would
have to be fully-trained shuttle pilots, so now they have *three*
jobs to prepare for. *Bad* Clark, no cookie...

Exactly how did we handle that moon thing again? I am thinking maybe we
will need a crew of thirty to handle a Mars mission if I follow your
single-task approach to space flight correctly.

I'm sorry you have such a low opinion of a persons capabilities...

and I'm sorry you have no clue about mission training or EVA. Or
grammar, for that matter...

And people here want us to go back to the moon and on to Mars? With the
attitude reflected in some of the posts above you'd never know men have
already piloted the Command/Service Module and performed spacewalks on the
way back from the moon. It is amazing what a crew can do when there is only
room for three.

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Daniel
http://www.challengerdisaster.info
Mount Charleston, not Charleston, SC
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