PREVIEW: ISS - Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman regarding the Russian module Zvezda and its uncorrected cracks in the hull. More later in the week.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman about a progress freighter traveling to ISS and docking in Zvezda. |
| 0:09.3 | The major story is about something irregular in the progress freighter when it was open, causing the astronauts and the cosmonauts to scrub the air. |
| 0:18.4 | But I'm interested in the docking on Zvezda, one of the oldest |
| 0:22.5 | modules with cracks in it. And Bob has described to me in the past what has to happen each time |
| 0:28.7 | there's another spacecraft from Earth docking in Zvezda. Bob Zimmerman on the protocols now |
| 0:36.3 | established at the ageing ISS |
| 0:38.8 | when the Russians or the Americans, |
| 0:43.0 | but mostly the Russians, send up a spacecraft to freighter, a Soyuz, |
| 0:48.3 | docking at Zvezda with the cracks. |
| 0:52.2 | More of this later in the week. |
| 0:55.0 | As far as I know, they still are, |
| 0:56.4 | that when they dock, |
| 0:58.6 | Americans close their half of the station, |
| 1:00.6 | so in case a disaster happens, |
| 1:02.2 | they will be safe. |
| 1:03.7 | And once docking is secured, |
| 1:05.7 | they then only close their hatch |
| 1:07.3 | when the Russians are going to open that hatch |
| 1:09.4 | or play around it. |
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