[rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...

[dave]

mcguire at neurotica.com writes:


>On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Michael Free wrote:
>> Yes, more than just coincidence. We should declare war on all forces of
>> terrorist foam. Foam is evil!
>>
>> This was a tragic accident. There was nothing that could have been 
>> done once
>> that tile was damaged, they didn't have the capability to spacewalk 
>> out and
>> repair it. What was done was done.

>   So they knew they had problems and just had to come down anyway?  I 
>don't buy it.  They could've gone to ISS and hung out there and awaited 
>another ride home.  Sure, a difficult proposition, but better than 
>losing the ship and crew.

I saw a brief reference somewhere that the Columbus, being of a
slightly different design, was too heavy to make it up to the
ISS's orbit. Anyone know if that's true?

In either case, I'm sure if they suspected a catastrophic failure
on reentry, they would figure out a way to rescue the crew in
orbit. These are clever people.

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