[ale] OT: Space Shuttle Columbia

[Jeff Hubbs]

Clever joke, but a nearly-forgotten and "far-fetched" lifeboat procedure
stemming from a particularly sadistic Apollo simulation run saved the
Apollo 13 crew.  

Anyone know if anyone's interviewed Gene Kranz on television??  

- Jeff

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 16:54, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > -----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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