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Post by mikeu » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:14 am

Here's a recent image showing the trail of the ISS. Take a look at http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetail ... 8462079282 for the track.


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Post by Cosmic Voyager » Wed May 28, 2008 3:57 pm

I live in Québec and yesterday at 23h30, I saw a big moving star and I asked to myself if it was the ISS... Did you saw the same thing?

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Post by neufer » Wed May 28, 2008 4:34 pm

mikeu wrote:Here's a recent image showing the trail of the ISS.
Is it a Yellow trail?
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  • Call the Space Plumber: ISS's Toilet is on the Fritz
    International Space Station crews are using a temporary toilet in a docked Soyuz module until help arrives By Matt Ransford Posted 05.28.2008
    http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation ... ilet-fritz

    <<Of all of the sophisticated technology powering the International Space Station, nothing brings the frustration of modern living back home to those of us on Earth more than a report of a broken toilet. Only the astronauts can't make an after-work run to the home repair store; they have to devise creative solutions while they wait for Saturday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery to bring them repair parts.

    In the gravity-free environment of the ISS, the waste collection system uses fans to push excrement and urine into storage containers. The fan for the solid waste collector is fine, but the liquid waste fan has given up the ghost with "a loud noise." After an unsuccessful attempt at replacing particular devices in the system, the crew was told by Russian mission control to use the toilet in the Soyuz capsule, which is docked at the ISS as an escape pod. But like an RV in the driveway, it has a limited capacity.

    In the meantime, NASA is reporting that the crew is "bypassing the troublesome hardware" with a "special receptacle" attached to the toilet. For those of us who have jury-rigged our own home repairs, we know there's no shame in having to go in plastic bags until the plumber finally shows up.>>
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Post by mikeu » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:37 am

Cosmic Voyager wrote:I live in Québec and yesterday at 23h30, I saw a big moving star and I asked to myself if it was the ISS... Did you saw the same thing?
Yes, it looks like the ISS passed overhead at that time.

http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetail ... 1439951852

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Post by lightspeedsquared » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:37 pm

The ISS toilet working or not, just as a humorous note some of those beautiful meteors we see in the night sky as many of you know, but for anyone who doesn't , they very well might be solid waste ejected from the ISS for burning up as it enters our atmosphere. Yes poopy meteors. Not all human waste is recycled. Shall we call them magnitude #2 meteors. hehehe
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Post by harry » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:57 am

G'day from the land of ozzzzz


We can add another term to when the poopy hits the fan,,,,,,,,,,,to,,,,,,,,,,just thinking

Unable to come up with one.

???????????? be back later
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