Re: MMU Question

From: LooseChanj (LooseChanj_at_aol.com)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:56:52 GMT

On or about Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:03:15 -0600, Jorge R. Frank <jrfrank@ibm-pc.borg> made the sensational claim that:
> You are, for the most part. EVA rescue is a relatively straightforward
> procedure, and all shuttle crews with planned EVAs are trained for it. The
> biggest concerns the crew has to keep in mind are protecting the EVA
> crewmember from RCS plume impingement and the Ku radar. As Henry wrote, it
> is not possible to grapple the EVA crewmember with the RMS, but the EVA
> crewmember could grab the handrail on the wrist of the RMS if able. If the
> EVA crewmember is incapacitated, the plan is to fly the stranded crewmember
> close enough so that the second EVA crewmember (tethered to the orbiter)
> could grab him.

I love being right. :-D I think the major thing my opponent was debating was
that the rendezvous would be the tough part, and that it would take too much
time to recalculate orbits and such. I thought that was just plain silly,
but it's what their aerospace engineering professor told'em! 

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