On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:43:45 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:30:30 GMT, h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:


Is that all? ECLSS and propulsion? Whew, I was beginning to think they
still had difficult work ahead. "If we had some eggs, we could have ham
and eggs, if we had some ham."

It doesn't need main propulsion, just RCS. You might even be able to
do the job with cold gas. Or hire someone else for an occasional
reboost.

Then how does it get to the Space Station where it will serve as the
Storm Shelter? Ride up on the Shuttle?

If not a Russian vehicle (which is what they've been doing to date,
though politics may make that problematic) then Atlas.