Space Station to be Abandoned?

Space station may fall into disrepair
Michael Hopkin

Failure to fix oxygen unit could leave orbiting lab crewless.

YEAH! Lets dump that poor excuse for a station and ground the shuttles too
before they ill another crew!!!!
HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Agamemnon wrote:
October. If the
generator is not reliably repaired by then, space officials may
decide
against sending up a fresh crew because there would be no
guarantee of
enough oxygen to last their stay.

What a bunch of crock. The logical solution is to send the crew up and have
them thinker with Elektron until they run out of O2 and the use Soyuz to come
back down.

Again, Progress provides O2, so do Oxygen Candles, adn there is plenty of O2
available for release from the US segment's Quest tanks. And based on a Jim
Oberg document, it seems that Elektron only needs to operate one hour in full
mode to provide suffficient oxygen to support one adult male for one day, so
it needs to run for essentially 2 hours per day.

"bob haller" wrote in message
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Space station may fall into disrepair
Michael Hopkin

Failure to fix oxygen unit could leave orbiting lab crewless.

YEAH! Lets dump that poor excuse for a station and ground the shuttles too
before they ill another crew!!!!

This assumes that Russia will "roll over" and give up. I very much doubt
that. Not only do they have Elektron currently running, but will surely
continue to troubleshoot problems as they develop (and they will).
Furthermore, Progress can bring up gaseous O2 in addition to O2 candles and
spare parts for Elektron.

Unfortunately, none of the other international partners are in a position to
help with ISS resupply at this time. That's the real problem with ISS, the
fact that the shuttle is grounded and can't provide any ISS resupply.

Furthermore, ESA and Japan are a bit slow (in terms of the ISS program) in
getting their resupply ships operational. It clearly would have been
beneficial to have thier ships flying by now as a backup to any Shuttle or
Progress failure.

Jeff
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Furthermore, ESA and Japan are a bit slow (in terms of the ISS
program) in getting their resupply ships operational. It clearly
would have been beneficial to have thier ships flying by now as a
backup to any Shuttle or Progress failure.

This article:

http://www.space.com/spacenews/busin...ay_040419.html

just talks about technical and procurement problems. But wasn't there
also something about the agreements between the partners? That ESA
wasn't obligated to provide ATV until Columbus was launched, and
therefore they delayed the Columbus launch. Or something like that?
(This is kind of a dim memory, so I'm not sure whether it has any
bearing on when ATV will start flying, or how often ATV will fly).

bob haller wrote:

Space station may fall into disrepair
Michael Hopkin

Failure to fix oxygen unit could leave orbiting lab crewless.

YEAH! Lets dump that poor excuse for a station and ground the shuttles too
before they ill another crew!!!!
HAVE A GREAT DAY!

You missed the entire point of the article. It was written with the only
purpose to re-iterate that the problematic generator was _russian_
built. The rest is just bunch of largely meaningless sentences added for
volume. The US has resumed its internal BS campaign intended to prepare
the pull out of ISS program, blaming everything on the "international
partners", and this article is nothing else than a small part of this
campaign. I won't be surprised if this "Michael Hopkin" in reality this
is the same person (or group of persons) who's responsible for producing
the recent stream of BS in "Florida Today" and other similar nonsense.

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