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Old 08-04-2010, 02:33 PM   #36 (permalink)
supersix2
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It was a crazy weekend for a lot of people I work with because of this. That pump has been running constantly for like 5 years in an extreme environment so it's pretty impressive that it ran that long. However this was a pretty major failure for any spacecraft to have. Fortunatley there is enough redundancy built into the space station that the impacts were fairly minimal and there is a spare on orbit so the crew can swap out the failed pump.

They will be doing 2 spacewalks to replace them pump package, the first of them is planned for Saturday.
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