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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: DC-1 and the $23M NASA Toilet
- Message-ID: <C0H1n3.9ML@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:49:50 GMT
- References: <1ige15INN30a@cbl.umd.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1ige15INN30a@cbl.umd.edu> mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo) writes:
- >Since DC-1(,2,3...) will have the ability to stay in LEO for at least
- >some days with astronauts aboard, one wonders what kind of accomodations
- >they will have while not engaged in flight activities (i.e. sleeping, eating,
- >and what comes as a result of eating). A great deal of time, effort, and
- >money has been spent on STS to accomodate humans living in space during
- >week long missions in this regard.
-
- Unnecessarily, if so, since the solutions developed for Skylab actually
- worked pretty well. (Notably, the Skylab toilet worked.) For rather
- longer than a week, too.
-
- I doubt that anyone has done enough detailed engineering on DC-1 to get
- down to this level of nitty-gritty. But it really isn't that big a deal.
- The Gemini 7 astronauts spent two weeks in space a quarter century ago.
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