EVA toolkit loss

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
"OM" wrote in message
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:33:22 -0600, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

It's best to think of them that way. Although the flight hardware is no
doubt in storage somewhere (though possibly cannibalized for other
projects), the parts are no longer made and in many cases the
contractors who made the parts no longer exist.
...Which begs the question of what *did* happen to the MMU?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Maneuvering_Unit

Partial answer.

I'd forgotten about #3 going to the NASM.

Jorge R. Frank wrote:
OM wrote:
...Which begs the question of what *did* happen to the MMU?

No idea where the flight hardware is. I assume it's in storage at JSC
somewhere.

Why JSC and not KSC?
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

It doesn't take many trips in Air Force One
to spoil you. -- Ronald Reagan

kevin willoughby wrote:
Jorge R. Frank wrote:
OM wrote:
...Which begs the question of what *did* happen to the MMU?

No idea where the flight hardware is. I assume it's in storage at JSC
somewhere.

Why JSC and not KSC?

JSC is where all flight crew equipment is reprocessed between flights.
I'm assuming, of course, that the MMUs were being reprocessed for their
next flights at the time the word came down that the project was
cancelled. But I think that's a reasonable assumption.

On Nov 19, 11:14*pm, "Jorge R. Frank" wrote:
M wrote:
On Nov 19, 7:54 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
http://www.newsday.com/services/news...wednesday/nati....
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (by God, now _that's_ a name, isn't it? I
can't even pronounce the middle part)

Easy. Rhymes with "definition".

* is probably going to catch hell





for not having the toolkit properly tethered to her...but if I was
EVAing and something inside my toolkit exploded, my first instinct would
be to toss that SOB as far away as possible as fast as possible. And if
it was tethered to me, I'd immediately release the tether on it.
Next question... is the toolkit going to get into some sort of odd orbit
that brings it back near the ISS from time to time?
They may want to fly it into the shuttle cargo bay (or grab it with the
Remote Manipulator Arm) and retrieve it before reentry.

Pat

Well, that bag containing important tools for the Solar Alpha Rotary
Joint is....Space History.
She will catch some flak from management (privately) for a serious
breach of EVA protocol.
Since this is her second flight (When she returned from her first
flight she passed out in public twice)
it will most likely be her last.

I doubt it. But most likely no one will be able to tell. It is too close
to the end of the shuttle program for her to get another shuttle
assignment. After that it depends on whether she wants to hang around
for Orion. If she doesn't, people will no doubt claim this EVA as a
factor. I don't think it will be. Everybody screws up, including
astronauts. Some screwups are, by their nature, more public than others.
What is more revealing is whether someone has the professionalism to
recover from a screwup, put it behind them, and finish the job, and I
can tell you a lot of people who count were impressed by Heide's recovery..

I'm glad to hear the latter. To some Grissom was blamed for losing the
Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft and even after dying during the Apollo 1
fire wasn't vindicated! Cripes the man invovated the joystick for
spacecraft fer crisakes!

I do hope she gets a chance to redeem herself as no one wants to be
remembered for what they did badly, or more correctly in her case, got
stuck with bad luck due to a material or tool malfunction.

On Nov 20, 6:41*am, "Jeff Findley"
wrote:

Henry Spencer always likes to point out that in the future, EVA's will
necessarily need to become more self sufficient. *On Mars missions, NASA's
Mission Control won't be there to micromanage (Henry's word) the EVA's
because round trip times for radio waves to/from Mars can be on the order of
1/2 an hour.


Speaking of which, does anyone know how Henry's doing nowadays?

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Speaking of which, does anyone know how Henry's doing nowadays?

Fine, from what I can tell. He's on the aRocket email list and posts
several times a week. The signal to noise ratio is much better on that list
than on any Usenet newsgroup.

Jeff
--
beb - To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, reality has an anti-Ares I bias.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:04:41 -0500, "Jeff Findley"
wrote:

Fine, from what I can tell. He's on the aRocket email list and posts
several times a week. The signal to noise ratio is much better on that list
than on any Usenet newsgroup.

....He's still missed around these parts, tho.


OM
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