Hallerb wrote:

MSNBC: "Space station mission opposed"

Lets hope we arent back here discussing the warning signs that were missed
before the station and crew were lost. Just like Challenger and Columbia
ISS could be next on the list.

By the way SMELL is useless in a stinky envirmonment. Eventually you
adjust and cant detect off odors.

What NASA flight directors decided to keep it manned?


Smell fatigues very quickly, but the space station is not that small a
volume. If one module stinks every time they enter it, there is a problem
in that module. But the fatigue goes away when they are in a different
module.

Also, isn't it an "international" space station. If the Russian's threshold
of pain is higher than the US threshold of pain, what happens? The US
determines it's unsafe, while the Russians don't have a problem. Does the
US have some sort of veto power to tell the Russians they can't man the
space station because we think it's unsafe? What if the Russians choose to
go anyway, even over the objections raised by the US that it is unsafe? How
about the Spanish guy? What if his government decides it's also safe?

Now the US would be in a position of taking our astronaut off the flight,
while the Russians have an empty seat to fill. Not a pretty picture.

The threshold of pain must be somewhere inbetween.

Craig Fink