russ
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response 12 of 14:
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Feb 6 13:25 UTC 1999 |
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Re #11: Okay, what would you enhance?
The "traditional" view of the mission-staged-at-a-space-station had
the station acting in one or more of these roles: fuel depot for the
deep-space ship, final assembly plant for the deep-space ship, quarters
for the crew and assembly workers, and isolation site for people and
samples returning from other planets.
The ISS doesn't have much in the way of room for extra crew, has no
tankage facilities or assembly bays, and no isolation labs. On the
other hand, it has plenty of costs that the administrators would love
to bill to other projects (like Mars missions).
I suppose the question is: even if you could possibly use it, would you?
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