Rescue mission challenges NASA

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"Rescue mission challenges NASA"
_FLORIDA TODAY_ - March 30, 2004

Excerpt:

CAPE CANAVERAL-- It sounds so simple.

If NASA's next shuttle crew ends up in orbit with a crippled ship,
just launch another shuttle on a rescue. The stranded astronauts can
just wait on the International Space Station until the second shuttle
arrives to save the day.

But 14 months after the February 2003 Columbia accident and a year
before shuttle flights are to resume, NASA is finding that planning a
Hollywood-like mission is enormously complex.

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