
Ep. 645: The Future of the ISS
Astronomy Cast
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Is There a Plan to Do Station Keep?
The space station, although it was doing some great science, was being held together with duck tape and bailing wire. Some of the capsules that we've flown on atlas rockets have the ability to do station keeping. The problem is the rockets were relying on a combination of parts made in russia and ukraine - none of which we can get right now. So i'm sure somewhere, people at nassau are seriously looking at it from their perspective, what if?
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