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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Nasa Shuttle, ISS Woes & To-Mars

On a Mars bound Ship/Station a type of 'Cupola' module section might be important for safety inspection

ISS: In the last few minutes, MCC-Houston asked the ISS crew to go to the cupola and look for any signs of "flakes" toward the aft of station; Jasmin Moghbeli reported "yeah, there's a leak coming from the radiator on MLM;" the MLM is the Russian Nauka multi-purpose lab module

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Nasa Shuttle, ISS Woes & To-Mars

Cosmonauts to install equipment, check coolant leak on ISS during spacewalk

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cosm … k_999.html

SpaceNut

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Re: Nasa Shuttle, ISS Woes & To-Mars

How can this happen British astronaut’s prosthetic leg could poison ISS crew

The leg is made from a mixture of carbon fibres, resin and high-density foam and so may give off toxic gas that could build up over time and prove dangerous to astronauts on board.

Experts at the ESA are testing the leg to make sure it complies with Nasa standards. In 2015, the crew of the ISS were forced to evacuate the US part of the satellite following a rise in ammonia levels.

tahanson43206

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Re: Nasa Shuttle, ISS Woes & To-Mars

For SpaceNut re #353

Thanks for finding and posting this report about the prosthetic leg.  Please keep a watch for follow ups.  Space travel has driven technical development in many areas, and this sure looks like a new opportunity to make advances. 

As far as your question ... "how could this happen" ??? goes .... How could ** what ** happen?

Space travel means pushing the boundaries of what is known ... Apollo era scientists were worried about all sorts of things that turned out not to be problems. On the ** other ** hand, lots of discoveries in space were not thought of ahead of time.  In this case, it seems to me finding out if this particular astronaut candidate would pass the severe tests given to ** all ** candidates would have been the first priority.  Now that (it appears) the candidate is qualified, it is time to worry about the prosthetic device.

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Nasa Shuttle, ISS Woes & To-Mars

Did a NASA study pull the plug on space solar power?
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4737/1

There was also a $1 Billion ‘Space Tug’ to Deorbit the ISS