shuttle disaster

[Gerry Doris]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Keith Antoine wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 February 2003 22:52, dep wrote:
> 
> > what is surprising is the continued arrogance of nasa in having never
> > pondered having to rescue people from a crippled shuttle.
> 
> If memory serves me no space agency of any description has, or appeared to 
> have, any rescue agenda in place at anytime. What has happened in the past 
> was all cobbled together in situ with a lot of prayers. Wasn't it Arthur C 
> Clark who established, in about the late 40's early 50's, a rescue agenda 
> that was laughed at, at that time. Neither Russians nor NASA have seemed to 
> want to spend money on this, recalls to mind sub rescue operations in deep 
> water. 

I read the other day that Nasa used to train the crews to repair missing 
tiles in space.  They gave up on that a couple of years ago when they 
decided that the crews caused more damage than they were trying to fix.  
It was decided there simply wouldn't be enough damage to prevent reentry.

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer