If there is an additional Shuttle flight added to the current manifest
(which must be in some doubt), then one of the priorities would surely be to
take the opportunity to return whatever can be retrieved from the Station.

On the other hand, I wonder if there is any way to rig the Shuttle to return
the ammonia pump on the payload bay carrier that will house AMS-2 for
delivery to ISS? How compatible/incompatible is this carrier for the ammonia
pump?

Eddie Lyons
Portsmouth, UK


"David Spain" wrote in message
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Since we cannot return the broken ammonia pump for failure analysis on the
ground are there any plans to conduct forensics on orbit? Would the bulk
of this work require EVAs to accomplish? What, if any, forensics have been
done so far?

Dave