(bob haller) wrote in
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So, since no other space station (the Salyuts, Skylab, Mir) has had
such an outside self-propelled camera, are you saying that none of
those stations should have been built?


ISS is the largest and most complex. with the low rate of available ot
soyuz and the shuttle grounded this is different from MIR in its prime
years. This makes a camera essential to operations. no need to rush
out a airlock when wierd noises occur.

You *are* aware that the current state-of-the-art self-propelled camera,
AERCam/SPRINT, requires EVA deployment, right?

The need for such a inspectiion capability is now clear.

Even if it is clear now, it was not at the time the station was designed.


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