Talk:Manned Maneuvering Unit

message: The Russian SPK section references a Strela crane, but the article linked to Strela does not make sense as it links to an armnament similar to a bazooka, not a tool used for space walks.  Is there another use of the term "strela"?  Can somebody please verify this, and either correct it, strike it out, or link to an article that describes a strela crane that would make sense to use for a spacewalk? ==Thomasdelbert 23:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Strela]] crane

message: Is it like a chair, do you sit in it?  All the pics of it look like some ugly space chair.
The EMU's legs don't bend so it can't be a chair. --Craigboy (talk) 01:03, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do you sit on it? 

message: The article claims oxygen.  However, I seem to recall Michael Collins saying he plugged the gas supply into a nitrogen connector outside the spacecraft. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.175.225.22 (talk) 16:29, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Zip gun gas?

message: I amended this article so that the primary measurements offered where metric. This was later reverted and I was asked to discuss it here. My reasoning has three levels.
Firstly the article was offering primary measurements in metric with imperial in brackets, then later reversing this and using imperial as primary and metric in brackets. This makes no sense, it is much easier to read a document if it is consistent in stricture.
My second argument concerns space itself. Space exploration is, as a science, near entirely done in metric. Being that this article is about space it should be metric first with imperial supplementary, if at all.
Thirdly, if Wikipedia is supposed to be neutral I feel that they should have a clear policy on this, given that 94% of the worlds population use Metric as a primary measurement system (in most cases, the only measurement system) it is my view that all articles should use metric measurements first except in the case where it is historically relevent to use imperial.
Regardless of your views on my later comments I hope we would all agree that a consistent structure is better than flip flopping, and since this is a scientific subject matter in this case the article should indeed treat metric as the primary measurement system. 86.111.162.127 (talk) 00:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Judging by the current state of the article, which flip-flops between metric (with imperial translations) and imperial (with metric translations), you lost. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:06, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metric vs Imperial 

message: The article doesn't state how far the astronauts were expected to travel from the shuttle with the MMU. I ask this because the famous photographs of McCandless make it look as if he is miles away, which surely can't be the case. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:06, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distance 

message: Found some images on Flickr that might give away their locations. 
Space Center Houston (Texas)
US Space & Rocket Center (Alabama)
Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum (Colorado)
--Craigboy (talk) 02:48, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manned Maneuvering Unit Locations 

message: "the military discontinued the use of the Shuttle"
Maybe this is just unclear wording, but the military continued to use the shuttle until 1992, six years after Challenger.108.28.23.254 (talk) 13:40, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military use 

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