"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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"Jeff Findley" wrote:
Elektron works better than the US O2 generator.

In the same sense that my buddies $150 beater (which blows smoke,
leaks every fluid, runs crappy only when ambient is above 70F and runs
not at all below that) works 'better' than the car which proceeded it
does currently. (Said car tossed a rod.)

Not at all. To my knowledge, the US has never operated an oxygen generation
system in space, at least not one that cracks H2O to get O2 and H2. That's
like saying you'd have complete confidence in the US ability to create a
nuclear powered aircraft that couldn't possibly crash on the first flight.

Remember the "unsinkable" Titanic? It looked great on the drawing board,
but sank anyway.

You can't say the same thing wouldn't happen to a US O2 generator when it is
ran in zero gravity.

My point is, and has long been, that Russian hardware isn't the
all-singing all-dancing fully tested, fully proven, completely and
utterly dependable system(s) that it's often portrayed as being in
these groups and elsewhere. Statement like 'the Elektron is better
than the US system' and 'the Elektron has years of operation' conceal
and obscure the truth.

I agree with your point, but you keep asserting that the US could do better
on its first try than the Russians have done with a series of Elektron units
that have actually been flown in zero gravity. That's a completely baseless
assertion.

Jeff
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