Timeline for answer to Does the ISS team plan cargo flights when at half crew on purpose? by ForgeMonkey
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| Jun 29, 2015 at 15:20 | comment | added | geoffc | @mins The Russian side and US side are not compatible at all. ATV docks on Russian side. Shuttle, HTV, Cygnus, Dragon uses US side. Future manned crew will use PMA + IDA (IDA-1 lost in CRS-7 explosion). | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 14:53 | history | bounty awarded | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | ||
| Jun 29, 2015 at 13:08 | comment | added | ForgeMonkey | @mins That's true for Progress and ATV, but not Dragon, HTV, and Cygnus. They all have to share CBM ports. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 13:06 | comment | added | mins | Any value for this naive argument? When there are 6 crews, two docking ports are used by Soyuz return crafts, only one when there are 3 crews aboard. So there is one more port potentially available. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 12:30 | vote | accept | geoffc | ||
| Jun 29, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | geoffc | That is the best explanation I have seen so far. I assumed it was coincidence but had no proof to back that up. However this comes closest. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 12:01 | history | answered | ForgeMonkey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |