Radiation Fatigue?

On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 11:20 AM, Ed Schonert wrote:

> Would this danger still exist if cylinders in pairs spinning in
> opposite directions? Plate 1 of O'Neill's "The High Frontier"
> doesn't show any rigid struts at ends of cylinders to keep them
> spaced a fixed distance apart but wouldn't these be required?
>

Those pictures are artist conceptions. One should not try to draw ANY
technical inferences from them.

The International Space Station (ISS) most important legacy may be
jump-starting space tourism. Consider: the first space tourist, Dennis
Tito, was supposed to go to the Soviet era Mir space station. Under
pressure from NASA, Russia de-orbited the Mir which resulted in Mr. Tito
going to the ISS instead. Now the Mir was old, smelly, crowded and
probably not all that nice. The ISS was brand new, shinny, much more
roomy, etc. Mr. Tito came back to Earth with glowing accounts of how
great space is. Would his experience have been as good on Mir?

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html