Re: Energia pictures of Klipper mockup posted to web

From: Herb Schaltegger (herb.schaltegger_at_gmail.com.invalid)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:37:44 -0600

In article <41b2bdf0.6394457@supernews.seanet.com>,
 fairwater@gmail.com (Derek Lyons) wrote:

>
> Why would you need to perform an EVA from a taxi?

Because said taxi might be able to rendezvous with its target with a
vital, mission- or life-critical payload and be unable to dock due to
a hardware or software failure. Also, certain vehicle failure modes
may require contingency EVA to evaluate and/or correct such as orbital
debris impact or failure to deploy antennae, solar arrays, sensors,
docking targets or reflectors, etc.

I could probably think of other contingencies if I put my mind to it,
but I'd rather drink more red wine and play my guitar some more
tonight. :-p 

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Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
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