Comments on: Two themes from Wednesday’s CCDev hearing

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:49:59 +0000

russell wrote @ December 3rd, 2011 at 2:11 pm

“I canâ€™t believe I had to explain what EVA was!”

You didn’t. However you said “EVA” without any context – which post were you referring to, and what question were you answering?

You may have assumed you were answering a post that was at the end of a thread, but by the time your reply posted maybe it wouldn’t have been directly above your post – you left us guessing.

Cryptic is fine, but context is everything. Just add some context to your cryptic posts.

By: russell

russell — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:11:58 +0000

I can’t believe I had to explain what EVA was!

By: common sense

common sense — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:28:44 +0000

@ Russell wrote @ November 2nd, 2011 at 9:01 am

“Astronauts could â€œspacewalkâ€ to an ISS airlock, this is known as EVA.”

Unrealistic. Unless you do not see your Gemini as a rescue vehicle as well. I doubt you’d be able to spacewalk an injured/sick astronaut. And the whole ops may be very complicated.

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:01:58 +0000

Astronauts could “spacewalk” to an ISS airlock, this is known as EVA.

By: Bennett

Bennett — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:07:28 +0000

Coastal Ron,

Too funny.

EVA = Eventually Vultures Alight

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:20:57 +0000

Russell wrote @ November 1st, 2011 at 3:43 pm

“EVA”

YTC

Which stands for “You’re Too Cryptic”. Do you mean that EVA is a more economical way of creating a low cost crew transportation system, or you’re expressing your love of Eva (all caps is a way of exclamation)? TLI

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:43:22 +0000

EVA

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:33:16 +0000

My point was I believe it had a docking port. A two man vehicle with docking port could be built. It like anything else however needs FUNDING>

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:31:50 +0000

For a short time Boeing was illustrating a two man vehicle, again resembling Apollo, that would launch from the shuttle bay. This would send astronauts once again out to the moon. It never materialized of course, but the idea was there.

By: Coastal Ron

Coastal Ron — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:16:14 +0000

DCSCA wrote @ October 31st, 2011 at 5:00 pm

“In fact, for its time, the Agena had a â€˜docking port.â€™”

Anybody can use Wikipedia to look up 45 year old facts, and in your case it’s totally irrelevant data since the topic of conversation is getting crew to a space station, not how to bump vehicle noses. Try to keep up.