[nicmarlo]

Perhaps I shouldn't have let my concerns over whether everything had been anticipated slip out. I'm sure you've seen the type, fretting over seemingly unimportant details just before launch.

Do we have the "o" rings under control....or is that not on the ship? : )

I'll read your chapter....maybe it has more information about those unimportant things, lol.

[NicknamedBob]

"Do we have the "o" rings under control....or is that not on the ship?"

No "O" ring worries. A minor concern will be leakage of atmospheric gases through the various connections between habitats once we're in space. We will have a lot of surface area exposed, and many complicated joints.

It should not be a major problem, all spaceships leak. We'll have make-up air in storage tanks, and we'll replenish them as needed, gleaning what we need from our propellant gas replenishment program, (our trips to the "filling station").

The equivalent problem to O-rings for us would be the thrust balancing between the various shuttle-thrusters. We would have a bit of a problem if we weren't "firing on all cylinders." Of course, in our case, it wouldn't be one cylinder misfiring out of six or eight. It might possibly be one or two misfiring out of close to six hundred.

I am confident.