Well, it's not everyday when you see a scientist who's never touched Space Station controls manage to reactivate a transmitter, let alone bring most of the station's functionality back online. I wonder how many people down at NASA are freaking out right now over our new(old) "Zombie Space Station"?
Anyways... yeah, Delmar was able to reconfigure the transmitter to link to the same base station that my tablet's linked to, and proceeded to stream all of the stats about the station down to the lab. Hopefully, Ranell can get 'em to sync it up soon. I'm starting to feel hungry, and I don't think another bag of decades-old space-jerky will help. Even if it's teriyaki flavored...
On the other note, apparently the bathrooms up here work faaar differently than the ones down on Earth, since they can't have liquid water. Instead, it's just sort of a suction pod thing. I don't wanna talk about it.
So yeah, for the past few days we've been eating dusty rations from the leftover storage bins, and drinking recycled water in little packs that look like those juice pouches.
Mild annoyances aside, however, it's actually breathtakingly beautiful from up here. Both Delmar and I have been spending hours lately just kinda floating near the windows, staring out into the never-ending space outside. And on the occasions where we see an Earth-rise? That just blew me away. Delmar said that he'd seen one before in a video, but seeing it in person to him, was like gazing up into the sky as a child. It's just... just mindblowing.
And since we've already brought the Z.S.S. (I like the name Zombie Space Station) back to a functional state, as well as handled the tracking beacon, there's pretty much nothing else to do but wait for the portal.
I'm just gonna stare out into the abyss again. I like it.
Now I wonder why the station was abandoned. Considering the cost of getting into orbit those things aren't abandoned till they are beyond repair or deorbiting
8084737 Beyond repair (at the time it was decommissioned.)
Nothing a small magical unicorn can't fix though.
8084758 Interesting extremely lucky it had an atmosphere and heat then. Of course it could be a budgetary thing like what almost killed Hubble. It was fixable but the cost to do would've hindered other missions then they found a cheaper altenative
8083907 Gadget could but if you think NASA is having a fit about the Space Station that is mild to whoever' sat She grabs belongs to. Also if the station doesn't have the proper Equipment for the beacon its unlikely all but the last Sats you'd want grabbed would help
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Teriyaki,,,bleghhh...Very Yucky! Burns the esophagus.
8084765 Ehh, it was a doable option down the list if all else failed. By now I 'd bet there are more satellites than they can recover to get the flying space-junk, potential collision dangers out of orbit anyway. The only ones flying at an orbit height close to the ISS are all probably military grade, a lot would be obsolete already. The military of most countries always want the newest toys.
Aaaaand I can't help myself.
8086061 Military grade or belonging to various intelligence organizations. While they both want the latest and greatest neither will be happy with someone snapping up hardware after all they might find a use for it and its probably still classified. You are right about all teh junk floating around. Probably enough Gadget could make another Space station or two at least in mass and volume
8086270 Snerk...silly thought.
8086450 various groups would have a love hate relationship with that. Obviously love her for cleaning up things and hate her because undoubtedly some of the junk is still classified.
Norad has a entire group whose job is to track space junk in case it might endanger various sats and the like
Yeah, and it's unlikely they have a cup the sufficiently matches her... Profile very well...
"I'm just gonna stare out into the abyss again. I like it."
I just hope the abyss doesn't start to stare back at her and like it.