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Old November 17th 06, 03:05 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Any comments on this? Is this true. Finally the shuttle does not need
those pesky humans!



http://science.slashdot.org/article....58246&from=rss


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Old November 17th 06, 03:19 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"EricT" wrote in news:Gkj7h.34021$rG.7322
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Any comments on this? Is this true.


True.

Finally the shuttle does not need
those pesky humans!


False.


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Old November 18th 06, 01:12 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Is this a covert way of extending it's life after 2010?
Jorge R. Frank wrote:
"EricT" wrote in news:Gkj7h.34021$rG.7322
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Any comments on this? Is this true.


True.

Finally the shuttle does not need
those pesky humans!


False.


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Old November 18th 06, 04:25 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Rich Godwin wrote:

Is this a covert way of extending it's life after 2010?



Why? If it's then deemed no-good as a people-carrier, would it still
inspire much confidence as a pure cargo carrier? Other than the ability
to self-land, it would be the same system, with the same problems.

But even so, it's still valuable enough (for all practical purposes,
an orbiter is as irreplaceable as a human, as are some payloads) to want
to make it possible to at least *try* to land a questionable orbiter,
sans crew, rather than just destructively de-orbit it.

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Old November 18th 06, 08:32 AM posted to sci.space.history
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"Rich Godwin" wrote in news:1163808762.105445.196430
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Is this a covert way of extending it's life after 2010?


No.


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Old November 20th 06, 10:41 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Rich Godwin" wrote in message
oups.com...
Is this a covert way of extending it's life after 2010?


No. It's exactly what the last two sentences said:

The remote control landing would be used in the case where
the Shuttle was damaged to the point that it would be too
risky to land it with humans aboard, but could be landed
without humans aboard in an attempt to save the vehicle.
The astronauts would take refuge on the ISS while mission
control in Houston attempt to land a damaged Shuttle.

In other words, it's to give the shuttle a chance of coming back in one
piece even if it's damaged enough that NASA won't trust it to return the
crew.

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Old November 21st 06, 04:54 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Jeff Findley wrote:

In other words, it's to give the shuttle a chance of coming back in one
piece even if it's damaged enough that NASA won't trust it to return the
crew.




Why do I keep seeing that last scene in "Doppelganger/Journey To The Far
Side Of The Sun" with the damaged orbiter flying straight into the VAB
where the next orbiter is being stacked? :-)

Pat
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Old November 21st 06, 11:30 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:54:45 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Why do I keep seeing that last scene in "Doppelganger/Journey To The Far
Side Of The Sun" with the damaged orbiter flying straight into the VAB
where the next orbiter is being stacked? :-)


....Actually, I concocted a plot twist that would save the film from
its fatal flaw: instead of their actually being a "counter-Earth" on
the opposite side of the Sun from our Earth, when Sun Probe 1 and the
Phoenix/Dove go behind, something - fill in the blank here with your
favorite technobabble - reverses the molecules of everything on board,
which in turn reverses the perspectives of the crew. It also has them
appearing on the other side almost instantaneously so that it appears
to Earth that they did, in fact turn back. Which is exactly what they
did, but molecularly and relatively reversed.

On the other hand, I'd also do the updated, reimaged version in
Supermarionation...

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Old November 21st 06, 08:06 PM posted to sci.space.history
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OM wrote:


On the other hand, I'd also do the updated, reimaged version in
Supermarionation...



When they return, their wires are coming off the bottom of them. :-)

Pat
 




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