Re: NASA HONORS LEGENDARY ASTRONAUT VANCE BRAND



Jorge R. Frank wrote:

Freedom was designed to be a lot more autonomous than ISS turned out to be, mainly because the assembly sequence called for it to be man-tended until assembly complete. When the Russians joined ISS and permanent-manned capability moved much earlier in the assembly sequence, a lot of that autonomy was sacrificed since there was assumed to be a crew there.



That's fine as far as it goes, but what about orbital decay?

Pat
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