In article 8a375047-8f51-48f1-a543-5dd768e52cd9
@l12g2000vbj.googlegroups.com, says...

All of your statements are similiar to responses of a shuttle stuck at
station...... before columbia.

But Columbia wasn't stuck at ISS. If it had been, the "slow" way of
resupplying ISS would have been sufficient to (eventually) bring the
crew home.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer