Here is the full episode of the popular science series (shown on the Discovery Science channel), which, without knowing it, bears a completely fair name - "Impossible Engineering". In general, I sometimes like to see how they create cars, piece or mass, sea liners, and other gizmos that really know how to do something, somehow drive, swim, fly, etc. I could not ignore this episode, in which they promised to tell about how the ISS was created, which I love so anxiously …;-)
Even if you don't know English, I highly recommend taking a look. Because a lot is clear without words: the lion's share of the screen time is taken up by computer animation, some strange elephant-like girls who can hardly pull up life belts are given out for engineers and inventors, miracles of technology with almost no wings that should land on landing strips are shown stupidly falling from helicopters, and the landing is shown … again in the animation. Since the picture is clear, you can clearly see that all the devices under consideration are made of rather hard foam rubber. They dock to the ISS in the literal sense of the word backwards, sprinkling their path with trickles of dichlorvos. These vessels are going to be planted on the ground, and not on the water, because after water, they say, they become unsuitable for restarting. But planting on the ground is such a shaking,understood at NASA (or at Boeing, it is not entirely clear for whom the lady with the dusty laptop, which squeals when the test doll is hit) works. And so you will see strength tests and … all the same life straps. I'm NOT Joking … see for yourself. Although, of course, scientists with dusty computers and vocabulary of vocational school graduates understand in time that not belts, but … airbags will save the astronauts. What a blessing that there is already an automobile industry, where you can spy on! That's what they call it - "revolutionary pillow" …Scientists with dusty computers and vocabulary of vocational school graduates understand in time that not belts, but … airbags will save the astronauts. What a blessing that there is already an automobile industry, where you can spy on! That's what they call it - "revolutionary pillow" …Scientists with dusty computers and vocabulary of vocational school graduates understand in time that not belts, but … airbags will save the astronauts. What a blessing that there is already an automobile industry, where you can spy on! That's what they call it - "revolutionary pillow" …
Further, I warn you, it is simply scary to look, because we are talking about modules for housing astronauts in space. The revolutionary idea here lies in the fact that two iron covers fly into space, and in space they open, and between them a cloth bag is inflated, in which one can already live. Saving valuable space is evident. Of course, in the vacuum of space, where there is no pressure, the inflated cloth bag is not going to burst at all. Well, at least his Indian designers don't know about it. Moreover, one such exhibit is already on the ISS, and they have been testing it for two years … At the same time, of course, they are terribly afraid of even the smallest particles of debris, which they once left almost a hole in the window. Which so far, it seems, has not even had time to close up.
As for spacesuits in a situation where oxygen, scientists admit, is a great luxury on the ISS, they proudly say that they came up with the technology of 1879 … It turns out that they already knew how to pump oxygen into a diver's spacesuit from the outside through a hose.
Well, in the end, they will show how astronauts generally manage to go into open space without releasing all the air from the ISS. This is just a miracle. You just need to go to Paris and talk for half an hour about the technology of 1887, thanks to which it was possible to strengthen the props of the Eiffel Tower right in the water of the Seine. And, of course, stubs! If you are going to the 1st grade on September 1, this will surely impress you …
About the details of WHAT is shown, I will not, because I just sobbed. I don't want to deprive you of this pleasure.
The main thing is that it is still not clear from the film how, on what camels and when all that equipment was taken out into space, which 20 years ago at a speed of 27,000 km / h turned there into what is today proudly called the ISS …
This is really impossible engineering …;-)
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