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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Add to those reasons that the ISS is constantly peppered with high-velocity space debris (far less so than Mir was though) and a permantly docked shuttle could be seriously damaged before too long. I was watching [i]Science Frontiers[/i] on PBS a few months ago and they were discussing the problem of space debris: they mentioned that during any EVA the shuttle acts as a shield for the astronauts because -at those speeds- even a small chip of paint or gold foil could kill an asrtonaut. Oddly, the shuttle uses it's heat shield to intercept any oncoming debris. I wonder what experiments they proposed to do on the ISS that were not already performed on Mir... How did they sell the idea anyway? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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