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Which was undoubtedly planned for, weighed and included in the manifests several years before launch. Not to mention getting NASA approval for being in space (l
by indiecore 14y ago
Which was undoubtedly planned for, weighed and included in the manifests several years before launch. Not to mention getting NASA approval for being in space (lot of crazy tests), NASA dietician approval (because it's a foodstuff), NASA chemist approval (make sure nothing bad will happen to the space station if it gets somewhere). Trust me there were way too many people involved in getting that ice cream up there.
- arrrg 14y agoI think you might be taking everything a bit too literally and you might be way too pedantic. What they meant is that the equipment is compact and that in principle it wouldn’t be complicated or outside the capabilities of the current cargo vehicles (ATV, HTV, Dargon, Progress) to bring it to the ISS. I also think that you can’t really compare the ISS to anything else. The ISS is not some random satellite. It has many cargo ships bringing massive amounts of cargo to it all the time (thus allowing necessarily for much more flexibility – human lives are at stake, so your cargo capabilities better be more than ample for the job, allowing for contingency plans). There simply isn’t anything like it in space.