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To: RightWhale

"Temperature -31 here, which is better than -300 on Titan. Methane is a gas at -31."
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Well, thanks to you, now I have the thought of liquid farts in my mind.
...and it doesn't make a pretty picture.


12 posted on 03/14/2007 2:44:52 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: Repeal The 17th

Here's a news item from NASA through spaceflightnow.com:

ISS module from Japan arrives at NASA for launch
NASA-KSC NEWS RELEASE
Posted: March 13, 2007

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After traveling thousands of miles, a major component of the International Space Station is set to begin preparations for launch. The Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section for the Japanese Experiment Module arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Monday, March 12. The Japanese Experiment Module is composed of three segments and is known as Kibo, which means "hope" in Japanese.

Kibo is Japan's first human space facility and its primary contribution to the station. It will enhance the unique research capabilities of the orbiting complex by providing an additional environment in which astronauts can conduct science experiments. The Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section will serve as an on-orbit storage area for materials, tools and supplies. It can hold up to eight experiment racks and will attach to the top of another larger pressurized module.

The ship carrying the module departed Feb. 7 from Yokohama, Japan, for the United States. Kibo's various components will be assembled in space during the course of three shuttle missions. The first of those three missions, STS-123, will carry the Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, targeted for launch in 2007.




This really is a major module. Not sure how it will be operated while the ISS crew is still limited to 3 and no science.


14 posted on 03/14/2007 4:05:47 PM PDT by RightWhale (300 miles north of Big Wild Life)
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