(Jake McGuire) wrote in
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NASA's afraid of another crew loss. So man the shuttle with old heads
like me. I'll go in a heart beat. That sucker can't be much trickier
to land than a 104 from its 15,000 foot high key. Wonder if John
Glenn would side me. I'd a damn sight rather die in the shuttle than
in a hospital bed from prostate cancer, my little souvenir from
Vietnam and Agent Orange.

I think NASA is more worried about another Shuttle loss. There's no
shortage of willing astronauts and astronaut candidates, but there is
a noticeable shortage of orbiters, and they're much harder (read:
impossible) to replace.

-jake

Yes,they aren't building any new Shuttles.
(and no replacement is even a few years away.)

Why don't they prepare unmanned supply rockets to deliver repair
parts/materials if needed as shown by an inspection after the Hubble is
serviced? If they can repair the Hubble in orbit,why can't they do a repair
on the Thermal Protection Shield? It need not be fancy,it just has to work.
The more experience they get repairing satellites in-orbit,the better.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net