Mir/Atlantis water dump
3432P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL
Mon, 19 May 97 12:06:27 PDT
According to the Nasa Shuttle Web site at http://shuttle.nasa.gov/index.html
there may be a very large water dump very soon.
Excerpt from website, dated 19 May 1997, 1800 UTC...
> Flight control teams are looking into a request that some
> 600 pounds of condensate stored on the Mir be dumped
> overboard through the shuttle's systems. Mission Operations
> Director Lee Briscoe says that request was initiated by the
> crews on orbit.
>
> "The crew called down and said there's a lot of condensate
> stored in containers on board. They have some in the
> Russian water containers. They have it in some bags and a
> number of different types of containers. And usually they
> collect all those up and then sometimes then they'll put it
> in the Progress and go ahead and deorbit those with the
> Progress. And the question just came up, "Could we maybe
> dump some of that water since we're going to do a waste dump
> here in a day or so also? Why couldn't we go ahead and dump
> some of that waste condensate along with our waste dump and
> extend the dump a little bit longer?" In that way you could
> save some of the bags, save some of the containers...
> ...we'll be looking at that and we will probably have an
> answer tomorrow morning whether or not we're going to do
> that."
If anybody can find any specific information regarding what time
this dump might occur, please share it with the group. I'd love
to see this! I have several more opportunities to see Mir/Atlantis
in the mornings, before they undock Wed. night.
Craig Cholar 3432P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL
Marina, California
36 41' 10.3" N, 121 48' 17.9" W (+36.6862, -121.8050) UTC -7