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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] So, anybody know how long the ISS can survive without the shuttle? Supply flights for crew and consumables could presumably be handled by Soyuz TM and TMA and Progress craft, provided the US starts to pour tankerloads of dollars to the Russians. And the station can manage on what she's got so far, structurally speaking. But a Soyuz or a Progress can't do orbital boosting the way a shuttle could, nor deliver a dedicated booster package. (A Proton or Ariane 5 probably could launch a booster module, but who'd let the upper stages of either of those firecrackers anywhere near the station's orbit?) How often does one have to do "decay management" on the orbit? Here's wondering if the situation will force NASA to conclude "Well, we didn't find anything [i]specific[/i] wrong with the STS, so we're resuming launches and crossing our fingers" after a year or so. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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