by MarkBour » Mon Nov 09, 2015 5:17 pm
I loved this animation! It was so revealing of all of the steps over the years of which I was pretty ignorant.
So Skylab was NASA's premiere space station, but the ISS is the premiere internationally-constructed station. (Although I loved neufer's "PostMir" observation!)
In all of this time, as far as I know, there has never been a major incident on the ISS, such as a hull breach or leak, the stuff of possible fears (and a favorite subject for sci-fi filmmakers). Still, I don't think it is paranoid to worry about such things. Given time and numbers, eventually a major accident will happen. I wonder what kinds of safety redundancies are in the design, and whether or not the astronauts ever do any safety drills? I'm sure they do, even the professionals that fly planes and drive submarines spend a great deal of time on such matters. It would certainly be interesting to learn about that aspect, and who especially works on such matters.
I loved this animation! It was so revealing of all of the steps over the years of which I was pretty ignorant.
So Skylab was NASA's premiere space station, but the ISS is the premiere internationally-constructed station. (Although I loved neufer's "PostMir" observation!)
In all of this time, as far as I know, there has never been a major incident on the ISS, such as a hull breach or leak, the stuff of possible fears (and a favorite subject for sci-fi filmmakers). Still, I don't think it is paranoid to worry about such things. Given time and numbers, eventually a major accident will happen. I wonder what kinds of safety redundancies are in the design, and whether or not the astronauts ever do any safety drills? I'm sure they do, even the professionals that fly planes and drive submarines spend a great deal of time on such matters. It would certainly be interesting to learn about that aspect, and who especially works on such matters.