Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
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Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
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#3Super thin margin stuff like space flight only "works" because they cross their Ts and dot their Is. There's probably no danger here, the repairs will probably go fine and be uneventful, but you gotta treat every situation like it's the real deal because otherwise it'll get you when it does happen.
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#4I have to say worrying about the provenance of writing has made me a grumpier reader.
For example: "The space station is made up of Russian and US segments, and there are modules from the European and Japanese space agencies too." It feels like this sentence is inserting some points, but is lacking in authorial intent. Is the intent to say the station is largely Russian and US, or to say the station has more than two partners? Probably an okay sentence, but still feels like a stone in the shoe.
Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
#5it was already cancelled and they can return back to normal operations
Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
#6I have to say worrying about the provenance of writing has made me a grumpier reader. For example: "The space station is made up of Russian and US segments, and there are modules from the European and Japanese space agencies too." It feels like this sentence is inserting some points, but is lacking in authorial intent. Is the intent to say the station is largely Russian and US, or to say the station has more than two…
Yeah, this is their "live reporting" feed, where updates and context get posted about an in-progress event.
I don't think you'll find that type of language in the more traditionally published/edited articles.
Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
#7Super thin margin stuff like space flight only "works" because they cross their Ts and dot their Is. There's probably no danger here, the repairs will probably go fine and be uneventful, but you gotta treat every situation like it's the real deal because otherwise it'll get you when it does happen.
Agree to precautionary principle. Disagree to certainty of fixing because this is a long standing leak which just doubled in intensity: either it got bigger, or there are more. Either way, we have no reason to be optimistic a bigger leak problem has a faster MTTR or even triage.
Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
#8I have to say worrying about the provenance of writing has made me a grumpier reader. For example: "The space station is made up of Russian and US segments, and there are modules from the European and Japanese space agencies too." It feels like this sentence is inserting some points, but is lacking in authorial intent. Is the intent to say the station is largely Russian and US, or to say the station has more than two…
Seeing nothing wrong with it. If journalist follows inverted pyramid, it starts with crucial facts and at the end it can be mostly supplementary information. Seeing this is about "International Space Station", this adds context to why it is called "international" for an ordinary person.
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#9it was already cancelled and they can return back to normal operations
... for now. Problem still being worked.
Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
#10Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413273
Probably better to link to the article, rather than a thread that has 0 comments.
https://www.reuters.com/world/nasa-live-international-space-...