On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:38:47 +0100, Martin Evans
wrote:

"Jim Oberg" wrote:

There's no plan to have an STS-300-style backup launch
capability after the first two flights -- never has been -- so
what's the point of this article discovering that?

But that wasn't the point of the article AT ALL.

No, the point of the article was that ISS would become "unstable" after
the new truss is added -- the implication being that it would tumble out of
control.

That implication is ridiculous.