Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit – NASA
Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit
Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit – NASA
Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit
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Pretty awesome to be honest. 😎
So is this the largest, by habitable volume, that the space station has ever been? And possibly will ever be? Or are the 8 spacecraft together still smaller than a spaceshuttle orbiter habitable volume?
We likely won’t see this again for a while, depending on how long it takes Russia to fix their launch pad.
eight spacecraft all docked at once is actually so cool, like a mini space parking lot out there in orbit. wild how far space tech has come.
Thanksgiving, and every spot on the driveway is full
I thought all the ports were full when those two astronauts were stuck up there. That they couldn’t just bring up another one because all the ports were full.
As I recall, that’s why they had to scuttle the one they came up in so Dragon could dock and bring them down?
Somebody in the crew should make a sign “ISS Inn. **NO** Vacancy”
It is very cool. But it also kind of highlights the problems that they’re about to face with the russian launch incapacity, the limiting factor for operations now is the 4 docking/berthing ports on the US side. And lifeboating gets complicated too.
Crazy that we are gonna throw away like 275,000,000,000 dollars worth of space station soon 🙁
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[ITS](/r/Space/comments/1pbrm64/stub/nrswifw “Last usage”)|Interplanetary Transport System (2016 oversized edition) (see MCT)|
| |[Integrated Truss Structure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Truss_Structure)|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1pbrm64/stub/nrsrxjq “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|MCT|Mars Colonial Transporter (see ITS)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1pbrm64/stub/nrt47ar “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
|[apogee](/r/Space/comments/1pbrm64/stub/nrsz0el “Last usage”)|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
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