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Is this worth the risks?
Not only to ISS but a visiting shuttle soyuz progress or other vehicle
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...602250341/1007 |
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so you go on a risky space walk and do a exhibition that creates more
orbital debris for profit? |
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"Craig Fink" wrote in message news On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:58:51 -0800, Bob Haller wrote: Not.... Yes, I still think so. informal poll results 1-1, so far. Gotta admit, it does worry me somewhat. Not so much from the chance of a later strike, but the chance of hitting a panel on the initial swing. But I don't have enough details to say for sure. -- Craig Fink Courtesy E-Mail Welcome @ |
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The golf ball trick is well worth it.
It will help raise the public profile of the station. And I don't really think it would be such a danger. If they shoot the ball towards the aft, it means that they are effectively deceletating the ball putting it in an elliptical orbit with less energy than the station. And that means that it will lose altitude faster than the station and not be a threath to the station. |
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John Doe wrote:
The golf ball trick is well worth it. It will help raise the public profile of the station. And I don't really think it would be such a danger. If they shoot the ball towards the aft, it means that they are effectively deceletating the ball putting it in an elliptical orbit with less energy than the station. And that means that it will lose altitude faster than the station and not be a threath to the station. Ok, see if I got this right? They shoot it aft, decelerating the ball, which will drop to a lower orbit, and whiz past them. Gee, ain't orbital mechanics fun? Richard |
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Is this worth the risks?
It does seem extremely silly, whether its risky or not, but then, I guess
there will be plenty of takers if it becomes possible to write large product names on the moon... I imagine that the main danger would not be to the station, as the relative speed is going to be very slow indeed, but as for some other craft, well, do we really want to leave even more crap up there for the sake of a publicity stunt? I was intrigued by the inbuilt transmitters, I'd assume that these will have an extremely short life. Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "Bob Haller" wrote in message oups.com... Not only to ISS but a visiting shuttle soyuz progress or other vehicle http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...602250341/1007 |
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"Bob Haller" wrote in message oups.com... Not only to ISS but a visiting shuttle soyuz progress or other vehicle http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...602250341/1007 The risk is not worth sending the shuttle up again. They should scrap the program for something a lot more safe. The only reason they want to send it ups is for foolish pride. It's going to be hell on the astronauts too. Not only do they have to go up. They're going to have to do another space walk to check and repair the heat tiles. They will have to do this every time the shuttle goes up. This is added cost and risk. NASA has been very stupid in having the Space Shuttle be the only means of putting humans into space. They sould have had a simpler backup for rescues and economics. I wonder if they will still have the video from the cameras that show if foam is hitting the wings. Probably not. They don't want to panic people as that **** keeps falling off. John |
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"John Slade" wrote in message om... I wonder if they will still have the video from the cameras that show if foam is hitting the wings. um, yes they will. |
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