Re: It's Been Time To Scrap The Shuttle For Years


"Jorge R. Frank" <jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Actually, the shuttle can do reboost as well. It's not as efficient as
> Progress on a per-pound-of-propellant basis, but makes up for it by
> carrying a lot more propellant. At the time of the 107 accident, the
> shuttle had actually performed a majority (on a delta-V basis) of all the
> ISS reboost performed to date.
>

My guess would be that for this flight Discovery will perform a boost?

Makes sense given that it's there.


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