The ISS is over 25 years old. I’d feel a little unsafe riding around in a 25 year old car let alone a space station. I’m just wondering if the adage of “Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should” applies.
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I know Don Pettit, we worked on the BEAM Deployment Avionics together. Don is the original MacGyver – capable of repairing anything or at least reusing the parts to fix something else. When Don says “use past 2030” I’m pretty sure he means keep it limping along until it’s just him and the Alien Queen locked in Node 3.
Oh, and he reads Reddit and will assuredly soon comment here.
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The ISS is over 25 years old. I’d feel a little unsafe riding around in a 25 year old car let alone a space station. I’m just wondering if the adage of “Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should” applies.
I know Don Pettit, we worked on the BEAM Deployment Avionics together. Don is the original MacGyver – capable of repairing anything or at least reusing the parts to fix something else. When Don says “use past 2030” I’m pretty sure he means keep it limping along until it’s just him and the Alien Queen locked in Node 3.
Oh, and he reads Reddit and will assuredly soon comment here.