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To: Frank_Discussion

And why jettison? The dang shutle is about empty, on the way home.


101 posted on 12/18/2006 6:07:45 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: patton

I'm back (for a sec).

It would cost more money and take more time to refurbish it than to replace it with the spare we already have, or even to just build a new one. Let alone develop the proper cradles and tie downs to carry it in the payload bay. Not to mention you'd have to chop it into pieces if it failed with the arrays deployed to any degree, so it would fit.

Catch you tomorrow.


103 posted on 12/18/2006 8:21:25 PM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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