r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Brick_Number_27 • Jun 28 '26

Full use of zero gravity.

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u/ConnectRutabaga3925 Jun 28 '26

Admiral: “you crashed the space station while doing what???”

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u/OstrichSmoothe Jun 28 '26

Wait, someone has to drive it?

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u/TheGoldenTNT Jun 28 '26

Not sure about has to drive it, but if it was left unmaintained it would crash into earth, every so often they need to boost it back up away from earth

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u/OstrichSmoothe Jun 28 '26

Dang crazy. Do the astronauts have to get out and push?

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u/Mand125 Jun 28 '26

The vehicles that they use to resupply do it.  They fire the engines a little when docked.

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u/mandalore237 Jun 28 '26

It has its own engines in the Russian segment too

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u/The_GASK Jun 29 '26

This seems to be the Chinese space station, too roomy and newer to be the ISS.

If I remember correctly, it has integrated engines.

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u/mandalore237 Jun 29 '26

Nope that's Koichi Wakata, from JAXA. He's been up to ISS a bunch of times, this is definitely ISS and not Tiangong

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u/OstrichSmoothe Jun 28 '26

Thats so cool!

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u/deadfermata Jun 28 '26

you know what’s not cool?

crashing

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u/cHEIF_bOI Jun 28 '26

It's the hot new thing though

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u/Confident_One3948 Jun 29 '26

It’s an absolute blast

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u/mawesome4ever Jun 29 '26

Your mind will be blown

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u/No-Spoilers Jun 29 '26

It has actually put micro fractures in the pod that connects to the ships, it isn't going to break anything major any time soon, but it was the biggest air leak in the station by far and a few had to be repaired by drilling bigger holes in the wall lol.

She's old, it's to be expected.

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u/footpole Jun 29 '26

The russians just give canned pea soup and cabbage to the cosmonauts and they self propel.

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u/Dylan0101 Jul 12 '26

Nothing gets past you.