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The Shuttle Mission No One Wants

Posted by timothy on from the no-one-in-my-room-anyhow dept.

Fourmica writes "USA Today (by way of TechNewsWorld) has a surprisingly insightful look at the planned 'rescue option' for Discovery's upcoming launch. The plan, which has been mentioned here before, is to have the crew hole up on the ISS until Atlantis can launch to bring them home. My question is, why shove everyone into the ISS? Why not just dock with it, and share the life support supplies between the two systems, instead of cramming everyone into the station?" See this earlier story on the same topic.

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  1. Re:Answer by SYFer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Actually, the powdered aluminum and ammonium perchlorate fuel used in the SRB's is supposedly great for lunch. Or... was that "launch?"

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