(GCGassaway) wrote in
:

Jorge R. Frank wrote to Robert Casey:


There's no launcher "off-the-shelf" that could do that. Rendezvous
capability resides with the payload, not the launcher.


Columbia would be the one doing the active role in rendezvous with any
emergency resupply "care package". Assuming that it was launched into
an accurate enough orbit of course, within Columbia's OMS and RCS
propellant limits to be able to reach it and rendezvous.

Right. But that's not what Robert Casey was assuming.


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