International Space Station May Have To Be Evacuated  – IOTW Report

International Space Station May Have To Be Evacuated 

Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 17:30 MJA Uncategorized 26

It has more cracks and leaks than a Joe Biden White House.

26 Comments on International Space Station May Have To Be Evacuated 

  3. “’…that would kill ……. NASA’s reputation,’ he said.”

    Wait….what? NASA has a reputation? Who knew?

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  4. Figures that the damage would be on the Russian side. Build ’em cheap & simple. Oh, and if it falls apart, no big loss. Cosmonauts are also disposable.

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  7. @Woodman – I started to watch the Apple TV series For All Mankind, about 10 minutes in one of the Apollo 10 astronauts was in a bar, after the Russkies had landed a man on the moon, and people were asking him why he didn’t just land – they were orbiting the moon, after all. I stopped watching, because I knew why. When JFK said we are going to land a man on the moon, he also said ‘and return him safely to Earth.’ That’s the difference between America and Russia/USSR.
    I’m sure the show was good, but I lost interest after that.

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  13. “Cracks and leaks”. Oh Jethro. Cracks and Leaks occur with structures under duress. Fatigue. Space is weightless. How does this happen? Unless it was from within. IDK. Not logical.

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  16. NASA: We will send a plumber to the ISS as soon as we can find one in YELP that is within our budget. Our standards demand that the plumber we select has a licence to do plumbing work while in orbit around the earth.

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  17. B_B
    Objects in space may by weightless, but how about stresses due to extremes of heat and cold, expansion and contraction?

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  18. ISS. I never understood why. Even if NASA had waited a few more years for increased funding and better technology, it could have created a permanent one on the moon, IMO. It seems to me with enough funding and tech, they could even have gotten some kind of craft to launch from the ISS to the moon. There would be no gravity to overcome from the ISS as far as I know.

    I think there is something that is holding us back from a moon landing, but I have no clue what that could be. The Artemis mission that is going to include women astronauts has been delayed. Last word is that it will launch sometime next year. We’ll see.

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  19. Neanderthal B Woodman

    A valid point. Let’s hope they designed the skin, structural parts, welds, and fasteners all out of the same alloy with the exact same rate of thermal expansion. Like they did the SR-71 back in the 60s. Are we still that smart? Juries out.

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  21. Bad_Brad
    Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 23:01 at 11:01 pm
    Neanderthal B Woodman

    “A valid point. Let’s hope they designed the skin, structural parts, welds, and fasteners all out of the same alloy with the exact same rate of thermal expansion. Like they did the SR-71 back in the 60s. Are we still that smart? Juries out.”

    …did you see this about an early SR-71 failure where the aircraft literally disintegrated during high altitude supersonic flight and the pilot survived even though he never ejected?

    (you can read the story without downloading)

    https://roadrunnersinternationale.com/weaver_sr71_bailout.html

    …now THAT’S an incredible survival story!

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  22. Neanderthal B Woodman

    I should add. I’m a lower earth orbit type of guy. The SR-71 was primarily made from 6al-4v. Titanium. My favorite metal to machine. Why? It’s dead stable and doesn’t move as you remove material. However, that shit expands and contracts like no other. So I’m not suggesting Space Station #9 should have been built from Ti. The SR 71 leaks fuel on the run way until it gets hot. But I’m sure you already knew that.

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