[ale] OT: Space Shuttle Columbia

[Jim Popovitch]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hubbs
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:43 PM
>
> I've been thinking - what if the ISS were totally unreachable and they
> KNEW they couldn't land the Columbia?  Could they have dumped the
> mission plan in favor of a long-duration orbit until another Orbiter
> could go up?  The other three would have been at various stages in the
> pipeline; would it have been possible to get one up in maybe three
> weeks?  Perhaps also lob up a few Soyuzes?

What if the mission was so vital to national security that George Bush
conferred w/ Nancy Reagan's psychic, Paula Jones' lawyer, and <shock> Vince
Foster's ghost to decide that the crew was expendable and that the greater
good of the mission should be served by risking the crew.

<any more far fetched hypothesis on what would'a... could'a should'a...
happened?>

-Jim P.









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