Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:


Too high risk. Far easier to just forget about it.


For a simple replaceable toolkit, correct. But what if they lost
something *really* important to the station ?

(or lost an astronaut for some reason).

Shouldn't they have procedures or at least concepts of manoeuvering the
station within grapple range of the object/astronaut ?

And in terms of risks with thethers, weren't the very first EVAs done
that way on mercury ?