Do you really need five to seven people on a Hubble service mission?

Someone in a position of power has got to sort this or a great investment
could be just left to fall out of the sky.

I imagine it might be reconsidered if the repair ideas pan out, but that
does not help the folk making the improved hardware, as they will probably
be stopped and redeployed now.

Brian

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"Dosco Jones" wrote in message
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| The shuttle crew size is typically five to seven people. The Soyuz seats
| two or three. You do the math.
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| The reason that the mission to service
| Hubble has been cancelled is that they
| can't guarantee the safety of the crew
| for trips that are not close to the Space
| Station (which can serve as a refuge).
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| However, why not carry a Soyuz capsule
| in the Shuttle cargo bay? Then if there
| is a problem with Shuttle reentry, the
| Soyuz can be used as a lifeboat.
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