"Scott M. Kozel" wrote:

http://www.floridatoday.com/news/spa...3004rescue.htm

What is needed is a grapple point so that the Station arm can not only grapple
a shuttle, but also provide keep-alive power.

This way, station arm could take the stranded shuttle, undock it from PMA, and
move it out of the way while rescue shuttle arrives with spare parts etc. Once
repairs are done, and other shuttle gone, they could redock it (since shuttle
would get power from station's arm, they could still command the docking
mechanism to lock onto PMA2.)

The idea of ditching the shuttle before the next one arrives really bothers
me. There is a lot of parts that could/should be salvaged before it is
disposed of (if that is really the only option).