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  • toasttoScience Memes@mander.xyzwomen are the devil
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    11 days ago

    Well, the walk did finally happen, so there were adequate suits, although one of the astronauts had trouble with the suit she was initially assigned.

    You have to remember that of the 18 original suits, only 11 still exist, and something like as few as 4 might be on the station at a time. Also, the suits were originally intended to return to Earth often (shuttle days), but now are kept on the ISS longer and are maintained by the astronauts themselves. Given the losses of some suits, the limited nature of the maintenance, and the limit on how many are kept in orbit at a time, it isn’t scandalous that sometimes astronauts find themselves to be either too large or too small for the suits at hand.













  • What are you talking about? The only part of Mir not launched on a Proton-K was a docking module brought up by, yes, shuttle so that a shuttle could dock to the station and American astronauts could learn about long duration spaceflight from the Russians.

    Shuttles weren’t required for the construction of Mir, just as China is now constructing its space station without the use of a shuttle.

    The idea that shuttles are or were required to learn about long duration space flight is simply wrong




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    27 days ago

    just emboldened by the current regime in the US

    Trump may be a bit of an Orban fanboy, but he isn’t out of step on the ICC with any of the recent former leaders of the US. Rejecting the ICC & blindly supporting Israel have been long running features of the US government.