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MarkStanaway
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I see from this report that they have decided to attach the Tranquility node (Node 3) to the left hand side of Unity rather than the earth facing nadir port. I am assuming it has something to do with providing more clearance for solar and radiation panels on the Russian section of the ISS. Can anyone clarify this?
It will certainly give a different aspect to the view from the cupola and will render obsolete all those fine graphics of the assembly sequence and final appearance of the ISS.
'The module, known informally as node 3 and formally as Tranquility, originally was to be attached to the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. It will be attached instead to Unity's left-side hatch. "So all the plumbing and the fluid lines, power and data lines, that were built down into the nadir location in node 1, we have to move all that to the port location which is where node 3's going to be attached," Smith said. '
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts12 ... ndex2.html
It will certainly give a different aspect to the view from the cupola and will render obsolete all those fine graphics of the assembly sequence and final appearance of the ISS.
'The module, known informally as node 3 and formally as Tranquility, originally was to be attached to the Earth-facing port of the Unity module. It will be attached instead to Unity's left-side hatch. "So all the plumbing and the fluid lines, power and data lines, that were built down into the nadir location in node 1, we have to move all that to the port location which is where node 3's going to be attached," Smith said. '
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts12 ... ndex2.html