UPDATED! NASA Orders Dangerous Spacewalks To Fix ISS! VIDEO! Should The Situation Become Critical, Russia Will Have To Rescue The Astronauts!

"Urgent"???

The EVAs start Saturday, where's the urgency???

If you start on this legit thread that is taken straight from the news...I will throw you off.

I will never put up with your ranting on my threads again!

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Stuxnet.

What is that?

Computer Virus. This also fits the theme of cyber attacks and hacking propaganda we hear on the news.

OMG!

good job op five stars

Thank you so much!:ltr:

Hmmm... I feel Fox is being a bit sensationalist here.

ISS has been relying on Russia for taxi service since the shuttles were decommissioned anyway, plus there is always a Soyuz capsule docked (how do you think they got up there?).

So to evac they simply go down the same way they got up, in the Russian Soyuz craft they've been using since the shuttles were mothballed... hardly what you'd call a dramatic Russian rescue mission the way Fox news is painting it.
The crews ride is literally parked outside.

The repair will be done next week by replacing the valve with a spare that is stored on an external platform for just such an event.

[link to www.nasa.gov]

Of course any spacewalk is dangerous and any time an astronaut EVAs they are literally risking their lives.

But I do feel that Fox are being somewhat overly dramatic... particularly with the whole Russian rescue thing.

It is after all the International Space Station hmm?


Now all that said, this is still pretty exciting and I hope we get some good streaming footage of the work, I for one will be glued to my screen while this is happening.

So it will be televised?

Good chance NASA will stream it on their site.
They damn well better, the public interest in this is high enough.

If they don't I'll get all paranoid and call shenanigans.

Oh, good. I was wonderin' if I would get to see it.

for news!

Can't wait to see how this goes...makes me nervous.

Thank you, Stormey...hope they do stream it live.:lkj:

Bong hit bump for dooom!

This is a repeat.

When the ISS is evacuated; (for whatever reason stated), that will be the demark for the coming disasters.

I (who is not needed to know); was purposed to use this sight since 1995, while under other management, as the fool Aussie Bloke, was fabricated only for the purpose to send the site viral. It was an economic issue.

As 'Noted and warned', I left the country. Temporarily to Costa Rica for necessary reasons. And I said so back then.

Since then you have all these so-called 'Preppers' dramatics that are happening as of late.

We knew it would take a 'long' time to become imminent, but those of us up in years see it another way.

Speaking out; way back then, was the only way to initialize the process.

So now you have it , young people.

You all need to think about your future.

~Godspeed~

ME Tel U Called It!

Way Before This Guy!

Ed Dames, big fireball in sky tonight, Stuxnet, ISON debris, "Gravity" - good grief! I's sure hate to be doing a spacewalk with micro-meteor dust whizzing by. My weird-shit-o-meter is just about pegged.

5* Sure hope they make it. This is going to be a very strange Christmas.

Yes this makes perfect sense for how "they" do things. If anything, I would imagine they would use ISON to somehow cause satellite damage, to have a communications blackout.

10/10 would laugh again

same thing that happens to all mankinds "really big deals" when he's grown tired of them and is off into some other rabbit hole, likely to ensure prolonged survival in some regard, with specific reference to his own...

what does that tell you about the value therein?

empty vessels, the lot

cuz the one thing you can ever count on to hold true in their regard is that they are "born again" hypocrites from day one

Each of the three spacewalks will begin at 7:10 a.m. and is scheduled to last six and a half hours. NASA TV coverage will begin at 6:15 a.m.

SOURCE: [link to www.nasa.gov]

it was a billion dollar boondoggle from the getgo

Excellent, it'll certainly be more interesting to watch than the usual banal Christmas TV.

Good thing we have an armored Soyuz docked and ready to be used as an escape vehicle :D Ballistic re-entry is never fun. But it's viable if they want to get down to Earth in a jiffy!

PS! I have a feeling it won't go as planned. People in space circles are getting their feathers all ruffled all over Russia.

Last Edited by Snuffielover on 12/18/2013 04:15 AM

Current tasks list here
[link to spacestationlive.nasa.gov]