At 15:56 26/12/99 , you wrote: >Many of you described a "water dump"; can someone explain what's the >reason for the shuttle for dumping water out in space ? > Because it produces it all the time as a byproduct of generating its electrical power ( from Fuel Cells), and it only has a small tank. what is seen is a cloud of ice crystals of course, not water droplets. Tony Beresford ( 34.96S, 138.6333E) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html