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 21:13:56 -0600

In article <Xns95B3D1F94F328billthecat@216.196.97.130>,
 Bill the Cat <bill@the.cat> wrote:

> Herb Schaltegger <herb.schaltegger@gmail.com.invalid> wrote in
> news:herb.schaltegger-401DAC.19374402122004@news.newsguy.com:
>
> > 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.
>
> You might want to inform the Russians, then. Soyuz can't perform standalone
> EVAs on taxi flights, either.

You might want to re-read Derek's question: he didn't ask anything
about Soyuz' current capabilities, did he? 

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