They dont just have a list of materials on board...they have 1:1 inventory of the materials on board! They can literally use exactly what they have up there to come up with something. Thats what the Apollo 13 scene, "we need to make that fit in there with all this" is about. 'Here is our goal, here is what they have, make it work' It allows effectively crowdsourcing the problem across all the engineers on the ground. Pretty freaking slick!
What in the world?! This stuff is insane! It's some mix between the smartest people ever, and just some "shade-tree mechanic" shenanigans that Dale down the road, who barely got his high school diploma, but is an idiot-savant when it comes to cars comes up with. AMAZING!
Love to see the BEAM mention. I used to read about it years before it flew instead of doing my work in IT lessons. It's now outlasted the company that built it
I'm very biased, but I'd love you to cover more of the internal aspects of the station. Not sure what all is available to you in your research, but there's plenty of interesting stuff to talk about for sure.
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Also, that Canadarm is one seriously cool piece of tech, wow!
I'm very biased, but I'd love you to cover more of the internal aspects of the station. Not sure what all is available to you in your research, but there's plenty of interesting stuff to talk about for sure.