Keep ISS Alive

"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
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"Lee" wrote in
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Blah, Blah, Blah. What a lode. The ISS, a gimmicky method to transport
taxpayer dollars to the elites within the space industry. Read Robert
Parks book, "Voodoo Science" and get an education.

What you and Robert Park don't understand is that science is not the only
reason we do manned spaceflight. It's not even the most important reason.
It never has been. And it never will be.

Seriously, sometimes you build and fly things simply to learn how to build
and fly things! If we don't, we'll be stuck on this rock forever...

Jeff
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)

I agree, keeping ISS alive and worth doing something constructive is
what should happen.

Instead of pushing it into the somewhat lethal and otherwise
interactively pesky moon L2 zone, I was rethinking of my previous
notions of moving ISS into the Venus-L2(VL2) halo zone of supposedly
1,014,290 km away from that geothermally active and thus somewhat newish
orb, is by far the best for all things considered.

Parking ISS within Venus L2 for the likes of being fully staffed seems
doable because, as such it should become perfectly human DNA survivable
for the 19 month stint, although one hell of a killer commute could be a
factor.

Upon average, I believe VL2 could be cooler for ISS than currently
orbiting Earth, and there'd be less cosmic and obviously no moon
radiation factors, and even somewhat less solar contributed flak of
radiation to deal with.

I don't believe there's even any significant amount of those nasty
trapped radiation belts to deal with.

As compared to orbiting Earth, I tend to believe there shouldn't be 10%
the station-keeping demands per month upon reboost or other reactive
thrusting demands for having to sustain the orbital halo requirements.

One good resupply of fuel per 19 months should be sufficient, along with
a few less tonnage deployments of other essential supplies (beer and
pizza) getting delivered up to +/- 6 months worth of each 19 month cycle
(however, a +/- one month window would be most efficient).

Actually, utilizing a solar--steam powered form of reaction thrusting
via all that beer should provide sufficient thrusting, all by itself.
-
Brad Guth


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