Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!FNAL.BITNET!HIGGINS From: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Rotating Space Station Crews (was Re: LNLL Inflatable Stations) Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 01:03:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 In discussing crew change-outs with Mir, Freedom, and the LLNL sausages, Allen W. Sherzer (aws@ITI.ORG) wrote: >In a staion with >artificial gravity crew endurance is not limited by microgravity. >All things being equal a crew in the LLNL Earth Station will not need >to be rotated as often as Freedom. Since it will cost several hundred >million $$ to do a rotation, this is a major consideration. Allen, this is not true. In a space station with artificial gravity, the crew will have to be rotated MORE often. Think about it. (-: During the first and second stage Bill Higgins flights of the vehicle, if a serious Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory irretrievable fault should occur and HIGGINS@FNALB.BITNET the deviation of the flight attitude of HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV the vehicle exceeds a predetermined SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS value, the attitude self-destruction system will make the vehicle self-destroyed. --Long March 3 User's Manual Ministry of Astronautics, People's Republic of China (1985)