--- Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What will NASA suspect might be wrong, and whom will they send? > > Possible causes of loss of communication: > > * Power failure (suggests a mechanic/engineer type) > * Communications failure (ditto) > * Life-support failure (suggests a life support tech) > * Medical emergency (disease or food poisoning; suggests a doctor) > > Anything else? Those three, combined with two Shuttle flight crew, > would > fill the available personnel slots on the orbiter (leaving space to > evacuate the station crew). Are there any other skills that need to > be > represented, or things that might go wrong that I haven't thought of?
Interesting thought. How good is the insulation on the ISS? Could infrared photography tell the difference between a normally-climate-controlled ISS and one that was unusually cold/warm? Similar question: with all the astronomical observation equipment we have pointed at the sky, could we detect radio or magnetic emmissions or other "side effect" radiation from a working generator on the ISS? might let the ground crew eliminate/confirm either that the automatic systems are functioning, or are functioning anomolously, or aren't functioning at all. The Soyeuz has it's own comm equipment IIRC, so unless you have a plausable explanation for why it's AWOL, I would assume if the ISS's coms failed, they'd send someone out to the Soyeuz to tell Earth about it. -- "I hit him so hard he fell off the Internet." - Penny Arcade _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
