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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:Burt Rutan: 4 Days. NASA: 2 Years by dvnelson72 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your analysis is completely flawed. Burt Rutan doesn't have Congressional hearings every time there is a failure. He also hasn't lost lives, that I know of.

    The difference isn't that NASA is a bunch of bungling eggheads. The difference is that the eggheads get their money from a bunch of bungling blowhards in the gov't.

  2. Re:Easy solution by Picass0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    At $10 a ticket, that pretty much covers it. But how do you get everyone to watch it?

    1. Video Camera
    2. Natelie Portman
    3. Shuttle Robot Arm
    4. Directed by the Dark Brothers
    5. Profit