Space station springs a leak while astronauts are asleep (but don't panic) NASA ground controllers received some disturbing readings from the International Space Station on Wednesday - air pressure inside the craft was falling. That’s not a good sign when you're 220 miles up in space. The ISS crew were asleep at the time, but ground control opted not to mention it to them, since the pressure drop …
I'm disappointed that all the kapton tape sources I could find didn't say "As used on the space station" anywhere.Kapton's Wikipedia page has already been patched.
"Or it could just be a weak spot in the Soyuz that just let go."
Must be that GREAT soviet build quality we've heard all about. As for the kapton tape, I wonder if Amazon has "two day delivery" to the ISS ready to go. Somebody must have fronted the bill for Amazon Prime somewhere in NASA, I would think.
>Must be that GREAT soviet build quality we've heard all about
Are you American, by any chance? Because your stupid is showing.
Firstly, when something breaks, it is normal to try and work out why. And yes, a manufacturing fault is one option, obviously.
Secondly, the very next sentence in the article states that this is unlikely. Did you just stop reading when you came across something that seemed to confirm your slightly xenophobic stereotypes?
Thirdly, and this one is important. Why is the US relying on Russian engineering to get its astronauts into space? Maybe you should stop to ponder the inability of the US to transport its own astronauts before you take a shit on the Russians who have, by all sensible measures, won the space race.
Nice Armageddon reference. Reminds me of one of my favourites...
"You know we’re sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it?"
The 'lowest bidder' trope was actually a real one from teh first set of astronauts in the 1960s, although it's not clear who exactly originated it.
Usually attributed to John Glenn, but according to Gene Kranz (in his book 'Failure Is Not An Option') actually Alan Shepard. Both good.
http://books.google.com/books?id=slQZ3JOUSKQC&q=%22The+fact+that+every+part+of+this+ship+was+built+by+the+low+bidder%22&pg=PA201#v=onepage
"Must be that GREAT soviet build quality we've heard all about."
Yeah you're right really. I mean the Soyuz is around 60 years old in design and is the safest and most reliable spacecraft ever built by man. It's quite obviously lacking in the build quality department.
Pity that the space shuttle isn't around to show how 'murican quality wins the day eh?
Prick.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
