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Space Shuttle launch: 5/15/05!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I'm pretty sure the construction phase is over for good. NASA's website suggests differently, but I don't believe there are any concrete plans in place. Consider this <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&db_id=cp108&r_n=sr353.108&sel=TOC_344259&">Congressional committee report</a>, which implies that as of September of last year no timeline had yet been drawn up about when and how exactly it would start up again. I mean, I don't know. I'll believe it when I see it, I guess. Anyway, the shuttle could never be used as a lifeboat in the manner you suggest, for, I think, at least two reasons. One is that it simply isn't designed for it. Well, actually, that encompasses pretty much all of the reasons I can think of. The shuttle is heavier than a Soyuz, for instance, so how are you going to correct the station's orbit with this large mass hanging off to one side? The shuttle's thrusters weren't designed to move it plus a space station around. Not to mention the extensive maintainance you mention. True, most of that is probably due to the great stresses of launch and reentry, but the shuttles are finicky machines, and I don't think you could trust one not to simply fall apart when forced to be in space indefinitely. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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