[yonif]

What they should do is modify the shuttles so that they are able to dock with the space station in an emergency and also be able to have space walks off of it in an emergency.

[anymouse]

Ahem. All of the remaining shuttles do have the ability to dock to the space station and the astronauts can go EVA via the space station airlock or in an emergency through the shuttle docking module's airlock. We were in the process of upgrading Columbia to be able to dock with the station and it too would have had an emergency EVA capability.