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Article #7286DC-1 and the $23M NASA Toilet
From: Michael F. Santangelo
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 05:11
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 05:11
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Well, it occured to me after being subjected to a little CNN Headline News peice this evening regarding the new $23 MILLION DOLLAR toilet that will be flying aboard the shuttle Endeavour (GAO is somewhat concerned about this btw) that no mention has been made regarding this sort of thing with respect to the proposed manned, operational Delta Clipper program. 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. What's the scoop here Allen? Any info appreciated. -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Michael F. Santangelo + Internet: mike@cbl.umd.edu [work] Computer & Network Systems Head + mike@kavishar.umd.edu [home] Univ MD: CEES / CBL (Solomons Island) + BITNET: MIKE@UMUC [fwd to mike@cbl]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!cbl.umd.edu!starburst.umd.edu!mike From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: DC-1 and the $23M NASA Toilet Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:11:01 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1ige15INN30a@cbl.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: starburst.umd.edu Summary: ?Delta Clipper accomodations for long duration flights Keywords: DC,toilet,high-cost,long duration orbital logistics for astronauts