Opinion:
Commenter
These types of engineering challenges show why the Space Station is so significant. Long term operations in space are dealt with every day. Most people do not appreciate the magnificence that is the ISS. Those operations are forming the operational science for any type of long term human exploration - to Mars, Asteroids, the Moon and beyond. It is not easy -that is why 43 years after Apollo, only a few countries have any type of human operational space capability. People are going to die anytime you push the envelope. That is the accepted risk for the job.
