Comments on: Space Station AC Still on the Fritz After 8-Hour Spacewalk http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/09/space-station-ac-still-on-the-fritz-after-8-hour-spacewalk/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/09/space-station-ac-still-on-the-fritz-after-8-hour-spacewalk/comment-page-1/#comment-238485 Brian Too Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:20:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=18671#comment-238485 If the cooling loops are so critical, shouldn't they be triple redundant? Or is this in the category of, well the astronauts might be uncomfortable, but the station would in fact be livable? After all the station is filled with air and that could buffer the temperature swings a lot. If worse came to worst I suppose the astronauts could suit up. I don't believe that anyone would recommend living that way for long though. If the cooling loops are so critical, shouldn’t they be triple redundant?

Or is this in the category of, well the astronauts might be uncomfortable, but the station would in fact be livable? After all the station is filled with air and that could buffer the temperature swings a lot.

If worse came to worst I suppose the astronauts could suit up. I don’t believe that anyone would recommend living that way for long though.

]]> By: Rhacodactylus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/08/09/space-station-ac-still-on-the-fritz-after-8-hour-spacewalk/comment-page-1/#comment-238150 Rhacodactylus Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:31:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=18671#comment-238150 It's so easy to think of space travel as almost "routine" these days, I know I'm guilty of it. But, it must take insane nerves to have your life hanging on "loop 2" of the AC unit. Astronauts are bad-asses of the Nth degree. ~Rhaco It’s so easy to think of space travel as almost “routine” these days, I know I’m guilty of it. But, it must take insane nerves to have your life hanging on “loop 2″ of the AC unit. Astronauts are bad-asses of the Nth degree.

~Rhaco

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