dutch courage - 29/10/2006 4:47 AMI haven't heard anything on this during/after Expedition 11 neither from NASA nor from the media.
dutch courage - 29/10/2006 9:47 PM Yesterday I was watching the National Geographic documentary 'Inside: space launch' which showed the training and spaceflight of Greg Olson. Returning with expedition 11 Sergei Krikalev and John Philips there was air leaking from the docking port. In 1971 three cosmonauts died when air leaked from their Soyuz. I haven't heard anything on this during/after Expedition 11 neither from NASA nor from the media.
Yesterday I was watching the National Geographic documentary 'Inside: space launch' which showed the training and spaceflight of Greg Olson. Returning with expedition 11 Sergei Krikalev and John Philips there was air leaking from the docking port. In 1971 three cosmonauts died when air leaked from their Soyuz.
I haven't heard anything on this during/after Expedition 11 neither from NASA nor from the media.
From the ISS-11 Post-Increment Evaluation Report PDF document mentioned in this post:
The separation command initiation and physical separation were approximately 4 minutes later than originally planned due to discussions on the Descent Module pressure integrity. It was noted by Sergei Krikalev and the Russian Mission Control that the pressure in the Habitation Module) was holding steady; however the pressure in the Descent Module was slowly decreasing. Subsequent evaluation determined that the pressure decrease was primarily driven by the crew’s consumption of the Descent Module Oxygen (O2) and the removal of CO2 by the Soyuz CO2 scrubber system. Prior to this, two other small issues were found and resolved. The first issue occurred during the leak check between the Habitation Module and the Descent Module. Sergei Krikalev noted an audible leak during the leak check and isolated it to the pressure equalization valve between the modules. After cycling the equalization valve the leak was eliminated and the leak check was successfully completed. The second issue occurred during the pressure leak check of the crews SOKOL suits. It was noted that there was no oxygen flow to the suits. The crew re-initialized the leak check, cycled the Soyuz O2 valve and successful O2 flow was initiated with the suit. The de-orbit burn was nominally performed with a delta velocity of 115.2 meters per second.
Spirit - 2/12/2006 4:23 PMIn a recent NASAcast Mike Leinbach said that Discovery launched P3/4 because it was too heavy for Atlantis and that Atlantis is heavier than Discovery. But Atlantis is launching S3/4! Does this mean that P3/4 is heavier than S3/4?
nacnud - 11/12/2006 9:00 PMThe P6 truss as currently mounted to the Z1 truss has three radiators sticking out of it. However when finally attached to the P5 truss it only seems to have one radiator. What happens to the other two? Will they be attached to the either of the three panel radiators inboard of the solar arrays?
Squid.erau - 14/12/2006 6:48 PMAnother question, probably easy to answer, but i'm curious. I know for the last few shuttle missions to the ISS, whenever an EVA was planned, the astronauts had to 'camp out' in the Quest airlock overnight before the EVA. So, I'm guessing that this means that they have to eat/go to the bathroom etc. while in the airlock, prior to EVA. Are there specific facilities in the airlock for this, or do they just use the EVA suit equipment? Thanks in advance.
jarthur - 14/12/2006 12:09 PMThis question goes back aways, but why is the PMA from Unity to the FGB angled? Why not just have all the modules, i.e. Destiny, Unity, Zarya and Zvesda in line with each other instead of the US and Russian segments slightly offset from each other?