To: Mitchel Tighe
I think the Russian Progress resupply spacecraft could have been reconfigured to resupply the Columbia which would have given them enough time to get another shuttle up there for a rescue attempt. We probably would have to break a lot of safety rules to do something like that, but it wouldn't hurt to have some plans in place just in case.
6 posted on
02/04/2003 9:51:00 PM PST by
Brett66
To: Brett66
docking collars anyone?
oops we left ours on the ground and filled the shuttle bay with experiment modules.
snooker
24 posted on
02/04/2003 10:02:11 PM PST by
snooker
To: Brett66
Columbia was not configured with a docking collar. Getting the resupply into the shuttle would have been a major problem. Not that Yankee Ingenuity couldn't have come up with something, mind you!
If NASA would have suspected a problem with re-entry, I am certain that this option would have been attempted.
To be as technical as possible..."Shit Happens!"
136 posted on
02/05/2003 6:21:47 AM PST by
Redleg Duke
(Stir the pot...don't let anything settle to the bottom where the lawyers can feed off of it!)
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