Posted on 09/12/2006 9:18:38 AM PDT by RedCell
She's American, but I believe her father is a Ukrainian immigrant.
"If you see a Stuckey's, get me a pecan log."
I think there's one in the tile repair kit. I'll check the in the trunk...
When I was driving across country one time I asked my wife if she wanted to stop at the Stucky's to get a pecan roll.
She told me, only we could take it and throw it directly in the toilet to cut out the middle man.
No clue. All I could find was that she was born in St. Paul, MN, donchyaknow.
Serves 'em right for trying to serve pancakes in space.
Have they thought of that? Maybe they haven't. They think of lots of things, but a spring shouldn't just be going ...sproing... off into separate orbit.
One of 10's of thousands of pieces of space debris.
I find it amusing that the NASA guys haven't heard of magnetic parts trays, or if not magnetic parts, then use a sticky mat........
It was supposed to be a captive assembly, apparently that feature failed. It happens sometimes, and I know we'll be looking into it.
And there's the `parallel universe' theory for lost fasteners: after giving up searching in disgust,
then spending 15 minutes finding a replacement in your bins & returning to the job,
that little screw will re-appear.
Or maybe this is like a Dentist who says OOPS!
I am glad I do not work for NASA. If every time I lost a screw or bolt it ended up in the New York Times I couldn't bear the publicity!
The washer might be aluminum, so non-magnetic and could be lost. And it's a surpirsing thing, but things that are sticky here are not sticky in vacuum... We try to make things mechanically captive as much as possible when out used for EVA.
on earth, the missing parts would be guaranteed to roll to the part of the driveway underneath the vehicle that is the LEAST accessible.
Don't know what the orbital equivalent is, but I bet it's worse...
They are screwed!
Things that are sticky here are not sticky in space. That's interesting. How come?
And I like how your tag line is a quote from "Big Trouble in Little China". Hilarious movie.
10 minutes searching for lost or misplaced part.
10 minutes looking up parts list and part number.
10 minutes filling out parts requisition.
10 minutes waiting in line at stockroom to get part.
cost of original part: $0.10.........
You mean Post-it Notes won't work on the outside of the ISIS?............
I'd imagine there would be some sort of safety tent or net in which they would work if they are working with small parts. A slight spring tension could keep it puffed out and out of their way.
After further research, it's definitely Ukranian.
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