Showing posts with label EVA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EVA. Show all posts

Sunday, May 12, 2013

In the meantime on the ISS - Ammonia leak fixed

News reports have been all over the media about the liquid ammonia leak at the International Space Station. On May 9, astronauts aboard the ISS noticed small white "snowflakes", the frozen ammonia coolant, floating around outside the station.

Leaking ammonia coolant   --   via Discovery News



Friday, May 10, 2013

Your Space Adventure 1: Out in Space without a Space Suit

So you want to go to space?
Let's say you are invited to the International Space Station. We take two scenarios from here:
  1. You arrive to the space station, but your colleagues don't like you. They send you to an EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity a.k.a. spacewalk) without a space suit. Oops. (An impossible scenario, but for now let's just assume this can happen.)
  2. Your colleagues love you and make you stay for a half a year. (Much more likely.)
How does your body take all this?  Here it is for Scenario 1:

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