Re: The wet Shuttle ET
- From: Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:35:43 -0500
Chris Jones wrote:
Of course, this rescue shuttle has had its ET dinged (on the foam,
naturally), so they could be throwing away another shuttle to rescue the
crew.
It's a very minor ding; it's supposed to be only 1/8th inch deep, and I'm surprised that they even thought it necessary to fix it.
The ET can't be that fragile in regards to its foam, can it?
That would be one of the two remaining shuttles at that point
(unless the plan would be to try to repair the damaged shuttle and try
to bring it in with a minimal crew, and return the rest of the first
crew on the second shuttle).
Not that it would matter much, since Griffin, assuming he could keep his
job after forcing the launch, is on record as saying he would shut the
shuttle program down, so the remaining shuttles become museum pieces,
not flight articles.
Remember that article Jeffrey Bell wrote about using this flight as an excuse to end the program? :-\
Pat
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