Engineering Procedural Change...

[Joy 0]

We have a technical update...

 

HOUSTON — Atlantis astronauts will likely use a sewing kit normally reserved for spacesuits to repair a peeled-back thermal blanket near the spacecraft's tail, NASA managers said Tuesday.

 

The shuttle astronauts' 11-day mission was extended Monday by two days to allow time to fix the thermal blanket, which peeled during launch last week.

 

No final decision has been made on when the repair, which covers a 4-by-6-inch area over an engine pod, will be made.

 

Engineers also have looked at using duct tape to secure the blanket, but are leaning toward a method which would use stainless steel wire as thread and an instrument with a rounded end resembling a small darning needle.

 

"Duct tape doesn't work in the vacuum of space," said John Shannon, the mission management team's chairman.

 

All engineers are to turn in their duct tape...

[Kairi 0]

NOOOOOOoooooo!!!!!

 

::faints::

[will_marx 0]

Of course it is now contingent upon 3M to develop a duct tape that can adhere in space, is resistant to the high temperatures of reentry, and makes 600 mph tape look like scotch tape.

[Guest STSF Lebowski]

I think that he was merely being colloquial when he said it didn't work in space. He just meant that it doesn't work in this particular instance quite as well as another method... Of course it still works in a general sense! Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

Though yeah... reentry without deflectors might not be so good for it :\

[will_marx 0]

I think that he was merely being colloquial when he said it didn't work in space. He just meant that it doesn't work in this particular instance quite as well as another method... Of course it still works in a general sense! Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

Though yeah... reentry without deflectors might not be so good for it :\

 

He said vacuum, not weightlessness. After all, what did the Apollo 13 astronauts use to stick a round filter into a square hole? 3 feet of Duct tape.

[Kansas_Jones 0]

We have a technical update...

All engineers are to turn in their duct tape...

 

There are always the alternatives - spit and bubble gum.

[will_marx 0]

There are always the alternatives - spit and bubble gum.

 

Don't forget the bailing wire.

[will_marx 0]

It makes one wonder what exactly the Russians are using for a computer operating system on the ISS. Is it a bootleg of Win95a, ME, or Vista Beta? It sure as hell ain't Win3.1, Win2k or XP, or a MacOS.

 

The Crash

 

The Good News

[Guest STSF Lebowski]

It makes one wonder what exactly the Russians are using for a computer operating system on the ISS. Is it a bootleg of Win95a, ME, or Vista Beta? It sure as hell ain't Win3.1, Win2k or XP, or a MacOS.

 

The Crash

 

The Good News

 

 

Aaaah, so they used a stapler to fix it. Hadn't thought of that one..