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Old October 3rd 12, 04:45 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
Brian Gaff
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Default could a retired shuttle be reflown?

OK humouring him..
Tanks, I don't know what happened to the tooling but the infrastructure for
the construction and shipping is gone as are the bits and pieces in the VAB
and the support for Shuttles on the pad I imagine by now.
So its not just the main vehicles its the rest of the system. I imagine
that will be the issue. Smaller components can be made I'm sure, but a lot
of the innards of Shuttles are being taken to bits to learn about wear and
tear, so I'd be very dubious unless you wanted to start afresh.

Brian

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"Barbara Needham" wrote in message
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bob haller wrote:
lets imagine some deerp pockets $$$$ deciding to make a shuttle space
worthy again;0

would it be possible? has nasa sent all the tooling to a scrap yard or
put it in storage?

i know its not going to happen but a discussion on this would be far
better than this board being dominated with spam.......


Why in the world would you want them to fly again since you were such a
foreteller of doom and gloom when they did fly. I thought you'd be happy
now that they've quit.