Ha, this is an engineering disaster. The garbage can't be ejected without a human or humanoid sacrifice. The new plan is to give it a big kick on a space walk. Better not 'Bend it like Bekham' or it will curve right back and hit the station. Remember the old WWII submarine movies with a 'hot torpedo' curving around and dum, dum, dum, barely missing? or hitting. whatever, it's a movie.
I wrote this on a forum 19 days ago...
ReplyDeleteSo they'll end up with 2 guys in spacesuits holding onto the thing whilst no 3 pushes the un dock button and runs. Then the other 2 shove the thing way from the ISS before the thrusters fire and it's all a simple as that. IMHO with popcorn in hand.
Ha, sounds like Canadians in a snow storm. I always get the back.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking more that they couldn't even work the thrusters, so they pump it full of air, then release the lock and it zooms away like a kids water rocket.
ReplyDeleteNice! Probably have to orient the ISS, so the pos is pointing at earth to make sure it never comes back.
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