Musk's SpaceX testing breakthrough tech in risky spacewalk

Reuters ^ | 23 Aug 2024 | Joey Roulette

[roadcat]

I hope they bring along plenty of duct tape. And a high quality duct tape not bought from China. Stuff comes in handy against leaks.

[edwinland]

Can you do us a favor and post the same comment with a bit more explanation? I couldn’t follow everything.

[Richard from IL]

The Gemini and Apollo capsules had no airlock.

[MikelTackNailer]

Seriously though, making a 100% oxygen environment? Doesn't anyone remember the Mercury disaster cooking three men to death because of a micro-spark?

[Carry_Okie]

Having worked for a competitor of Boeing, do you realize how different the culture are ?

That's why I said what I did.

[blueplum]

I get what you’re saying, but would the fighter pilot be the only one able to cope with 8 g? what about blood pooling in the remaining 3? survivable?

[SunkenCiv]

LIVE! Polaris Dawn Countdown to Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VK50GZ-Jak

other vids, interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=polaris+dawn

[DigitalVideoDude]

That was Apollo 1.

[jmcenanly]

How many spaces engineers came over from Boeing to get away from the DEI culture?

[jonascord]

In passing, it wasn't Mercury, it was Apollo 1. Nasa had overpressured the craft innumerable times with 100% oxygen, at 7 psi, and the astronauts had put highly flammable velcro strips in any bare spot, because it was handy to stick pens, folders, cards, tools, whatever, wherever.

Ironically, after the Liberty Bell accident, with Grissom, where they lost the craft because the hatch blew off, the Apollo 1 hatch had a double cover that made explosive bolts and instant hatch opening impossible.

[tennmountainman]

Everything about going to Space is Risky.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Risky is lighting the damned rocket at the outset!

[MikelTackNailer]

Thanks, guys. Unlike some here I appreciate the shoring up of the olde sieve. Death by Velcro...god Tang it.

[roadcat]

Problem with flex seal are the chemical fumes. Not good to use inside the space capsule. Can't use it outside in the vacuum of space, as the atmospheric pressure inside would blow out the seal; besides that the spraying would act to accelerate the capsule away from the astronauts who are outside the capsule.

I've been using duct tape to seal leaks on my old truck roof, leaks because of body rot. Regular duct tape breaks down within a month due to sunlight UV, so I use a foil type duct tape for furnaces that resists UV and holds up for many months. I know, I should just fix the body damage but it would cost too much. Up in outer space, not so easy to get a service person up there for repairs, so good duct tape would help. As for 100% oxygen, I'd recommend not scraping around a leak with metal tools unless the capsule is void of oxygen.