Evolution of the International Space Station (animation)

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31 points·dmoney··6 comments

I think there are now already two Soyuz docked all the time, not one as shown (there is now six people up there, Soyuz is the lifeboat).

In the graphic it appears that the central S0 truss segment is attached to the Z1 truss, this is not the case, it is actually attached to the Destiny lab module directly.

The descriptive text for the Z1 truss is similarly incorrect, it contains attitude control gyros and served as a temporary mount point for the P6 truss, it does not serve as the central mounting point for the entire truss structure.

I have Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32 installed in Chrome on this box, and USATODAY.com is telling me "To view this presentation, you need to install the Flash plug-in". Must be checking for Windows.

It has now decided to work and not tell me I need flash. Not sure why pointing out that a link is bad is worth a downvote.

I like how they moved modules around towards the end. Like they were refactoring it :) (even though I know it was always meant to be that way (remembering the computer animations from school))

It's good to remember that not all refactoring is cleaning up messes. Sometimes you need to build something in a certain way at a certain time because you don't yet have the supporting structure to build it the way it should be in the final structure.

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