Re: The ding in the tile

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On Aug 11, 6:48?pm, Brian Thorn <bth...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:21:14 GMT, "Brian Gaff"

may well be the very last final flight of any shuttle. if its serious
tile damage we have 10 astronauts stuck at station.

From the look I saw, I highly doubt this.

It really doesn't look any worse than what I believe has been seen on prior
flights post-mission. Once we get the CRATER results, I'm sure we'll know
better.


any extra soyuz in stock? whats the plans for such a event? bring the
shuttle back by remote control unmanned? death plunge or edwards?using
the soyuz at station to take some of the load off the station, then
try to bring the strandees back by soyuz?

That is I believe the basic plan, send home the statin crew on the Soyuz to
lessen the load on consumables, go into low consumable mode and wait for a
shuttle rescue mission (STS-300).

Endeavour would be directed to reenter with an attempted landing at Edwards.



it certinally appears the foam ice safety issues are still with us:(




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