From: tmcd@panix.com   
      
   In article <2kujs1F6muj8U1@uni-berlin.de>,   
   Bob Martin  wrote:   
   >This forced the crew to use the Russian suits, which couldn't talk to   
   >the American radio equipment at the US airlock.  Ergo, the Russian   
   >suits had to talk to the Russian radios, which were only in place at   
   >the Russian airlock.   
      
   *blink*   
      
   *sigh*   
      
   I thought the US had learned that lesson in the invasion of Grenada   
   (when, e.g., a US Army officer had to go to a pay phone and call the   
   US on his AT&T Calling Card to get routed to the US Navy to get that   
   destroyer he could see a few miles off shore to give him artillery   
   support -- neither one had a radio that the other could hear).  Or on   
   Apollo 13, with the CO2-scrubbing cartridge fiasco.   
      
   Next questions, then: why can't a Russian radio near the American   
   airlock transmit 100 feet (or whatever) to the Russian airlock?   
   And why didn't the International Space Station project consider   
   International interoperability issues?   
      
   --   
   Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd@panix.com   
      
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