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drysinetoday at 4:38 PM0 repliesview on HN

>Otherwise this seems like a non-issue.

Except you forgot to mention an epic leak in Destiny just three years after it was attached to the ISS: "At its highest rate, the station was leaking about 5 pounds of air per day overboard." [0] Imagine that happening on the 4th year of American Mars mission.

Also, if you on American mission to Mars, it would be reasonable to worry about cooling system dying mid-flight requiring three spacewalks to fix it: "We'd lose cooling capability to half of the electronics on the U.S., European and Japanese part of the space station." [1]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3882962

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/31station/