Talk:Multi-Purpose Logistics Module

message: :Got a response via e-mail from Bill Harwood, space analyst for CBS News
::From: "William Harwood" <bharwood@...> 
::Subject: Re: Future of Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules and ISS 
::Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 21:03:28 -0400 
::That's a good question. I'm not sure the MPLMs can stay attached for long periods, however; they don't have the power and other subsystems a permanent module would have. Also, all the available ports get used between now and assembly complete. If you stuck an MPLM on one, you'd have to move it at some point. But I'll ask someone just to make sure I understand the issues.  
:Rillian 13:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this sentiment.  --152.7.49.159 14:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential answer

message: *Indeed, Donatello will never fly. It is foreseen to "cannibalize" it and in particular use its PCBM for the Orion adapter. Hektor 12:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Both cited sources say Donatello will fly on 17A. In evaluating contradicting predictions about the future, it isn't really interesting to argue about which one is "right." Instead we need to report which reliable sources make each of the various claims. (sdsds - talk) 22:49, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please refer to correct information, you are using outdated sources, the PCRB has baselined Leonardo as shown here STS-128 - Atlantis' 2009 mission baselined by PRCB. It has been known that Leonardo would fly on STS-128 since 2006. Hektor (talk) 13:42, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Donatello

message: The Raffaello module's name is spelled with two 'f'-s on http://mplm.msfc.nasa.gov/. Is there any source that spells it differently? (sdsds - talk) 12:33, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling Raffaello 

message: These plans are discussed in the official documentation at www.directlaunch.com. I don't know how to to give a proper reference to a specific page in a pdf document. Can anyone help?
:personally, i don't see DIRECT as anything but speculation and brainstorming, and as such I don't really think it is relevant, esp. in relation to MPLMs (for Constellation, the topic is relevant of course). The proper place for this information might be DIRECT, but not MPLM. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:04, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: DIRECT and future use of the MPLM's 

message: If the launch was on March 8, I very much doubt that the picture was taken on March 21, given the Shuttle mission duration capabilities. Hektor (talk) 06:08, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why do you doubt it?  The shuttle spends about 3 days getting to ISS, in part to do inspections on the heat shield that were not done in 2001.  Launching on March 8 puts it at ISS on March 10.  That leaves 11 days to remove the MPLM from the Shuttle bay and install it onto the ISS, open it up, and begin unloading.  March 8 is the date provided by NASA for when the picture is taken. Unless you can show an error in their cite? 128.157.160.13 (talk) 14:35, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 21 March 2001

message: is all this stuff about the PPLM real, looking on the official NASA website mentions nothing about this possibility, in fact it mentions that the last space station module will be the Russian module, I find it hard to believe that NASA would not mention such an important addition to the station,
check out the site:
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.221.68.155 (talk) 21:00, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The name of the thing changes almost every week, and it's certainly not 100% sure yet, but as you can see here, it is indeed currently scheduled for STS-133. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:42, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Permanent logistics module?

message: 1. The History section has a note that a citation is needed that the MPLM heritage goes back to Spacelab.  Cite 3 linked on the page has this statement:
:"Columbus is a sophisticated laboratory and we've had a pretty clean run on the design and development, largely as a result of the heritage and experience of Spacelab," explained Alan Thirkettle, ESA's ISS programme manager.
Now it is vague exactly what "heritage" means, but that's the same word, so you can cite it.
2. I'm a bit concerned over the wording that the other ESA modules "trace their origins" to the MPLMs.  "Trace their origins" suggests a level of design history that is just not true.  The Nodes and Laboratory module in particular have been components of ISS from early in the modular design phase.  The fact that ESA was chosen to build these modules at a later date, and based their detailed designs on their by then existing MPLM design, does not mean the "origins" were from ESA.  I think it is a misrepresentation and that a clarification is in order.
128.157.160.13 (talk) 14:46, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: So, now that the shuttles are retired, what happens to the remaining Rafaello, and unfinished Donatello? 70.24.247.54 (talk) 14:22, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: By 2018 Donatello has been repurposed by Lockheed-Martin. Lockheed Martin gives first look into where astronauts may live on missions to deep space Aug 2018] - Rod57 (talk) 16:05, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  disposition of the remaining two modules?