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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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Post by hgoel »

smilespray wrote: post #76
hgoel wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ideally your Mars transit vehicle hasn't been taking 90 minute heating and cooling cycles nonstop for 26 years.

Interesting thought. Isn't it possible to design around this? Surely this was considered when building the first modules.

Of course you can, but "needs to survive 26+ years" was very likely not part of the original design goals. The designers of the time probably wouldn't have expected the dysfunction to be so deep that 26 years later, only the Chinese can seem to stick to a plan.

Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

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Post by setopt »

malfist wrote: post #80
ordu wrote: post #64

Can't they just get things out of the module and paint it fresh? Maybe with some special paint, or with several layers of a paint? Obviously they can't, it looks like an obvious solution they couldn't have missed. But I wonder why it is impossible to do.

For every complex, difficult and hard problem, there is a simple, easy and wrong solution. Paint obviously is not the right tool for making seals air tight.

How about glue?

Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

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Post by caminante »

js2 wrote: post #72

As of 11 minutes ago, the headline is now the opposite of that submitted: > Astronauts told to return to International Space Station after sheltering over air leak repairs.

Oh, so it's a live blog with updates and a dynamic headline.

Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

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Post by justinator »

setopt wrote: post #92
malfist wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For every complex, difficult and hard problem, there is a simple, easy and wrong solution. Paint obviously is not the right tool for making seals air tight.

How about glue?

Bubble gum? Like do they chew space bubble gum that they could then smoosh in the holes?

In college, we'd use toothpaste for the holes left from nails in the walls we hung up our posters with.

Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

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Post by plopz »

cucumber3732842 wrote: post #3

Super 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.

Who is the "they" in your post? The ISS is a bit interesting because its a cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos.

Re: Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

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Post by switchbak »

numpad0 wrote: post #87
ordu wrote: post #64

Can't they just get things out of the module and paint it fresh? Maybe with some special paint, or with several layers of a paint? Obviously they can't, it looks like an obvious solution they couldn't have missed. But I wonder why it is impossible to do.

yeah, why can't they just make astronauts wear goggles, then stop the fans, and tell them to squirt some superglue in the air to let it clog the hole?

Oh come on you can't be serious.

Clearly this needs some JB-Weld :P

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