[tickles]

But if they had determined that there was a problem, couldn't they have had a couple more shuttle flights to bring home those people? In hind sight it might have been safer. sigh. But then the rush to prepare flights might have caused a problem for the new crews to.

[Howlin]

I don't know enough about it to even offer a suggestion about that; that would make sense to me though -- if they had thought it was bad enough.

[mewzilla]

There was no docking ring on board (if I heard correctly). No room. And not enough space suits, either. I don't know if NASA had a contingency plan for something like this. I would hope they had one.