On Nov 7, 11:26*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 11/7/2010 9:37 AM, Brian Thorn wrote:

Jorge on many times has said four is the minimum crew needed for
rendezvous flights.

Minor note: Atlantis does not have SSPTS, so there will be less time
to offload the MPLM.

If that's the case, and Atlantis gets stuck up there, it's going to be a
pain in the rear to get them all back; that's two Soyuz flights mininum,
and can the ISS life support system handle ten crew without resorting to
the oxygen candles?

Pat

a better question........ does soyuz have the extra production
capacity to quickly produce 2 or more extra vehicles?

i wonder too about what would happen if soyuz were suddenly
unavailable for some reason?

like finding the vehicles at station cant reenter?