[rintense]

Correct. The Columbia is not fitted to dock with the space station, and, the orbits were entirely different.

[Miss Marple]

I think this is very instructive in how some people, sitting in the comfort of their computer rooms with scant information and NO accountability, immediately attack NASA like piranha on a beef carcass.

Now, I ask you, what will happen if there are casualties during the coming war with Iraq? Will they immediately tell us that General X should have known, and was irresponsible? Will they call for immediate replacement of officers and Rumsfeld? Will we be treated to unending speculation of what strategy would have been better, in hindsight? Silly theories based on incorrect information?

I think we all know the answer to my questions, and I am not pleased to say this, but someone has to point this out.