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

"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> "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.
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> My guess would be that for this flight Discovery will perform a boost?
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> Makes sense given that it's there.

ISS will get the "freebie", at least. They'll get a real reboost if they
ask for one, but AFAIK they haven't yet.

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