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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Fact: The STS launch systems were designed for around 100 distinct flights. Fact: The [i]Columbia[/i] was completing its 28th flight when it was destroyed. Fact: There is literally no way that NASA could have arranged a rescue mission for the [i]Columbia[/i], even had it known right away the danger, because it is chemically impossible to replace those heat tiles in outer space. Fact: The reason it takes a whole month or two (OR MORE!) to prepare a shuttle launch is because of all the safety precautions they take, to ensure that the shuttle is in as good a condition as they can make it. Rushing a launch would have done nothing but jeopardize the people who would have been sent to "rescue" the [i]Columbia[/i]. Now, for all those people who are belittling NASA, I'd like to provide two quotes from what I assume is one of your major interests, considering that this is a Star Trek message board... [i]"Risk is our business. That's what this starship is about. That's why we're aboard her."[/i] -- Captain James T. Kirk (1968) [i]"[The urge to explore] can't justify the loss of lives... whether it's millions... Or just one.?[/i] -- Captain Kathryn Janeway (2001) Now tell me, which statement do you support? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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