The Shuttle Wars

Pat Flannery wrote:

It's times like these that you wish the Russians had several extra Soyuz
capsules and their boosters lying around.

Yes. The gain of .000000000000001% more 'safety' is a comfort against
the near total loss of capability represented by replacing Shuttle
with Soyuz.

D.
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Derek Lyons wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

It's times like these that you wish the Russians had several extra Soyuz
capsules and their boosters lying around.

Yes. The gain of .000000000000001% more 'safety' is a comfort against
the near total loss of capability represented by replacing Shuttle
with Soyuz.

D.
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Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

Yeah who needs launch boost escape

Just THAT would of saved the challenger crew.....

If it werent for killing people the shuttle would fly indefinetely, or
untill we ran out of them

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Derek Lyons wrote:
It's times like these that you wish the Russians had several extra Soyuz
capsules and their boosters lying around.

Yes. The gain of .000000000000001% more 'safety' is a comfort against
the near total loss of capability represented by replacing Shuttle
with Soyuz.

I suspect Pat's idea was not to fly Soyuz instead of the shuttle, but to
have a non-shuttle rescue option available in case things go badly wrong.
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Henry Spencer wrote:

I suspect Pat's idea was not to fly Soyuz instead of the shuttle, but to
have a non-shuttle rescue option available in case things go badly wrong.


Yup, although you'd need a few to get seven people back.

Pat