From: nowhere@to.be.found.retro.com   
      
   They might have included the decompression time ... astronauts have to   
   decompress before leaving the ISS (am not sure but saw it talked about   
   aboard the space shuttle)  \... if they don't they get the bends   
      
   Simon   
      
   "Tim McDaniel"  wrote in message   
   news:cc99sv$eiq$1@tmcd.austin.tx.us...   
   > I skimmed a story about the recent outside repair mission on ISS.  It   
   > mentioned that the spacewalkers were always ahead of schedule, it took   
   > 1 1/2 hours to go 100 feet from the Russian airlock to the peccant   
   > circuit breaker, and it took over six hours total to spacewalk and fix   
   > it.   
   >   
   > The minor question: why did they have to go out the Russian airlock?   
   >   
   > The major question: why the heck does it take so long to do work on a   
      
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