Re: 4 Astronauts Will Be on Emergency Standby, Ready to Rush to the Rescue of Next Shuttle

From: Joe D. (joe_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:29:03 -0600

"Bill" <nnone@nnone.com> wrote in message
news:e7to31pptjtu67sa9lothfp3a4qdclvsi9@4ax.com...
> By MARCIA DUNN
> The Associated Press
> ....
> Never before in 44 years of human spaceflight has NASA gone to such
> lengths to have a spaceship ready to rush to another's assistance....

Not sure that's entirely accurate. During Skylab there was a rescue
CSM and booster available.

During Skylab 3, they even began launch processing for a rescue mission
when the RCS malfunctioned on the service module docked to Skylab.

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apouecsm.htm

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