Re: What determines when the shuttle has to return to earth?

"Danny Dot" (don't.mail.me@xxxxxx) writes:
"Andre Lieven" <dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jeff Findley" (jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
"Andre Lieven" <dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Pegasus is a private rocket fired from beneath a L-1011
modified jetliner, and it's abilities to rendezvous with anything
in orbit are zero.

In this scenario, you'd use the shuttle to do the rendezvous. After all,
once you decide you're not going to deorbit, you've got a lot of surplus
OMS and RCS fuel.

Your premise is incorrect. After the Skylab affair, it became NASA
policy not to have such large and LEO objects degrade out of orbit
without control over where the thing will come down.

So, a crippled Orbiter will need some OMS and RCS fuel for it's
dump de orbit burn.

Let me see hear. You are saying we would allow 7 astronauts to die before
we would accept a random deorbit caused by orbit decay?

No, I'm saying that even with a full load of OMS/RCS fuel, its not
considered doable by NASA.

I don't think so.

Irrelevent. Your lack of knowledge recludes your views from having any
serious meaning.

We would certainly save the crew and risk the random deorbit.

Note: You speak for... nobody.

Andre

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