Re: “Did nobody stop to think what might happen in an emergency in space?”

On 8/27/2024 1:40 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:34:21 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On 25 Aug 2024 15:22:34 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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For Apollo-Soyuz, the Soviets made up some adaptor boxes that went =

from =3D

the

American space suit connections to the Russian ones (as well as the =3D

adaptor

ring to connect the two capsules).  I am surprised this is not a =3D

solution.
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Sadly, the Soviets (and their technology) are long gone.

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I beg to differ - Soviet technology is still here. Ukraine has
destroyed 3336 tanks so far, most of those from the soviet era.
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The still use Soviet Soyuz boosters.
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One might note that Putin desires the return of the Sovyetky Soyuz.

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They may use them (and lose them) but do they understand them well
enough to pair their spacecraft with ours?

 They routinely dock with the international space station, so the
answer is yes.

The US and the USSR jointly agreed to use a compatible docking
port over 50 years ago - remember Apollo-Soyuz in 1975? Its still
in use.
The Soyuz launcher, btw, is one of the most reliable rockets ever
built. There have been over 1700 launches.
pt