Fwd: [New post] What Do Mir’s Solar Arrays Predict for ISS arrays?

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From: AmericaSpace <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: December 19, 2012 8:21:16 PM GMT-06:00
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Subject: [New post] What Do Mir's Solar Arrays Predict for ISS arrays?

Christopher Paul posted: "[caption id="attachment_28771" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Space Station Mir as seen on approach by Atlantis on STS-76. Image Credit: NASA[/caption] In 1997 the Mir Core Module had been in orbit since 1986, for a total of 11 years, 6 years longer th" New post on AmericaSpace What Do Mir's Solar Arrays Predict for ISS arrays? by Christopher Paul In 1997 the Mir Core Module had been in orbit since 1986, for a total of 11 years, 6 years longer than its design life. The United States and the Russian Federation were in the middle of an agreement to create the International Space Station. The first part of this agreement let NASA astronauts to [...] Read more of this post Christopher Paul | December 19, 2012 at 7:00 am | Tags: Atlantis, Endeavour, Human Space Flight, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, long duration exposure, materials science, Mir, Mir Solar Array Return Experiment, NASA, Roscosmos, Russia, Shuttle, solar array, Space, space shuttle, space station | Categories: ISS, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Langley Research Center, Mir, NASA, Roscosmos, Russia, Science, Shuttle, Soyuz, Space, space shuttle, Tech, Technology, USA | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7tF Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.americaspace.org/?p=28747