You mind telling me how they would get the damn spacelab module out of the Shuttle? It's not designed to be jettisoned...
Don't know. Maybe it should be. I'm not trying to second-guess NASA, I'm just kind of wondering out loud. I watched the pre-flight interviews of the astronauts, and one of them mentioned that this would be the heaviest shuttle that ever attempted a landing. I wondered how significant that might be.