It's all fun and games until...
Posted on 03/16/2021 9:50:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Good to know the ISS has a junk drawer like I do and can’t decide which of the batteries gathering in there work so toss them all. ;)
Oh I realize that, but they have thrusters that can compensate for that on the station easily enough.
They’re not recycled?
The even have the temporary addition to use as junk room:
An experimental module added to the International Space Station three years ago to test expandable module technologies has been cleared to remain on the station through the late 2020s.
In a July 30 presentation at the ISS Research and Development Conference here, Nathan Wells, an instrumentation lead for the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) at NASA, said the module’s on-orbit performance had exceeded expectations and that it had been cleared to remain on the station to 2028.
“Now it’s become more of a core facility,” he said of BEAM, which is now being used for stowage to free up volume on the cramped station.
Don’t these guys believe in recycling?......
There aren’t enough decimal points to describe what percentage of space has now been ‘polluted’, but I have no doubt millions are being spent on worrying about it.
It's all fun and games until...
Dura-celLO!
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