Shuttle crew completes daring wing repair

Back to the article

Steve ten Have

Components... #

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 14:54 GMT

Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

Ian Ferguson

Cufflinks... #

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 14:54 GMT

...is there anything they can't do?

Matthew

Cufflinks #

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 16:10 GMT

I can't remember to pack them when I go away for a dinner and yet NASA packs several spare pairs for formal dinners on the ISS!

Adrian Jones

Cufflinks? #

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 16:10 GMT

I sense a NASA merchandising opportunity.

Just in time for Conspicuous-consumption-mas too.

Anonymous John

Er, no. #

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 18:00 GMT

"the unextended wing would have undermined the strength of the ISS' structure."

The damage only undermined the strength of the solar panel, not the whole ISS.

Reuters (your source?) made the same mistake.

Nexox Enigma

Re: Er, no. #

Posted Monday 5th November 2007 22:28 GMT

It is actually quite possible that damage to one component could affect any of the other components of the station. In space you have to worry a lot about resonance and momentum causing torques on manuevers, and a component that doesn't behave as designed could potentially cause damaging vibrations through out the structure.

I don't know if that is the case, but I know that I wouldn't exactly want to orbit in a space station with anything unpredictable going on.

Anonymous Coward