[TennesseeProfessor]

Ok...If the Columbia cannot dock with the ISS, what makes you think that a spacecraft that CAN dock with the ISS would be able to dock with the Columbia???? Use your head, man...

I was thinking that if the resupply ship navigated near to the shuttle, the crew could retreive the supplies without docking. Anothjer poster told me that the crew had no EVA suits and would not have been able to get to the resupply ship even it did rendevous.

[djf]

The answer to this whole problem depends on the answer to one question: Can they pressurize/depressurize the cargo bay? If so, you send up another shuttle with suits, transport them into the opened cargo bay of Columbia, let everyone get dressed and back into the bay, and have them tether over to the cargo bay of the stand by shuttle.

I don't buy the "Nothing could be done" rhetoric.