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NASA To Try To Resume Flights By Fall
underground alliance writes "According to BBC News, space shuttle flights could resume as early as this fall. The article says that 'Engineers have been put on standby to fix problems already raised by the investigating board, and devise a way of checking the exterior shuttle for defects while it is in orbit.' I think that this is a good move especially since ISS construction has been put on hold because without the space shuttle. The space shuttle is the only heavy freighter and the only means of putting a new ISS component in space."
Has NASA ever had two shuttles up at once?
Obviously someone hasn't seen Armageddon.
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What's the point of sending a shuttle into low earth orbit to conduct science that could be better done on the ISS? Why don't most science flights that require human hands-on presence just head for the Space Station? And why are those which don't require hands-on presence flown on the shuttle anyway?
As a freight transporter, it sacrifices many tons of lifting capacity in favor of a shirt-sleeve living environment for an unneeded crew of seven. As a people transporter it has a poor record.
As CNN's investigation into the shuttle crash enters its thirty-third week, we begin our review by showing the tape of a little streak of light in the sky for the six hundred-eleventh time. We then talk to a janitor and a bookkeeper, both of whom used to work for NASA and claim that a faulty paper towel dispenser in the sixth-floor mens' bathroom disrupted the job of the middle manager whose job it was to get the attention of the upper-manager & have him inform command that there maybe could've been a problem.
Who broke the paper towel holder you may ask? Oh, I don't know.... SATAN!?
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?