nmp wrote:
Is it possible that operating an oxygen generating machine in a space
station is just a very hard thing to do?

Yes.

It's a big experiment up there, so of course things can go wrong and that's
actually very useful. If the aim of the project is to *improve* space technology.

The problem with this theory is that Elektron isn't a new piece of
hardware, it's an elderly one. The ISS units are behaving the same as
the MIR units... It's not useful at all to fly something that is
known to be broken without having made an effort to fix it. You don't
improve something by not changing it.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL