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Space Stations: Past, Present, And Future


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12 minutes ago, willedoo said:

There might not be much metal that would be attracted to a magnet. A lot of aluminium and titanium, although there would probably be titanium/iron alloys as well.

I was just about to say the same thing but after a quick consult with Professor Google I found this.         A New Idea for Cleaning Up Space Debris: Magnets

 

It is not using magnetism directly on the objects.   Here is a link to the abstract from a scientific paper.  Dexterous magnetic manipulation of conductive non-magnetic objects  

 

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The death of one man stopped the Soviets from winning the Space Race. Sergei Korolev was behind almost everything the USSR did in space. His death in 1966 was a severe setback; the world has never seen another genius like him in the field of space flight.

 

The plan was otherwise to have a manned landing in 1968; with Korolev still around and with proper funding, this would likely have succeeded.

 

It would also have meant that there would have been a Moon base by the mid-70s and a manned Mars landing around 1980. The Soviet program could easily be scaled, since they planned to assemble modules in Earth orbit. The US program couldn’t—everything was designed to be lifted in one piece on a Saturn rocket.

 

Final note: don’t let any Russians lay claim to Korolev; he was Ukrainian

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev

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These people are know as the "Red Crew"

 

 

"Technicians who are part of the “red crew” of personnel specially trained to conduct operations at the launch pad during cryogenic loading operations have arrived at the launch pad. They will enter the zero deck or base of the mobile launcher to tighten connections to ensure a hydrogen valve used to replenish the core stage remains tight.

NASA has historically sent teams to the pad to conduct inspections during active launch operations as needed."

 

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There's a little snip you can have which will avoid the pregnancy issue if they wanted to include male astronauts.  Nothing's perfect, but pair that with a condom and the pill, and it'd be a tenacious little foetus to get through that.  Plus the morning after pill.

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