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Old February 19th 08, 07:03 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.station
Jeff Findley
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And with the shuttle soon to be grounded, it is doubtful that Destiny
will ever be outfitted with 24 racks unless they decide to leave one or
more MPLMs at the station as storage bins, and those would be launched
with empty racks. They could then install empty racks in Destiny and
elsewhere, and later on use progress/atv to send components small enough
to fit through the small russian hatches to populate those empty racks.


If the Japanese HTV flies, it has a CBM at one end and has room for 8 racks
inside its pressurized compartment. If the COTS program is successful, we
may very well see NASA launching racks to ISS using whatever vehicle wins.
ATV uses Russian docking hardware, so entire racks are too big to fit
through the hatch.

Jeff
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