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At 09:00 PM 2/1/2003 -0600 Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>It would take a _lot_ of fuel to raise STS-107's orbit to the level of that
>of the ISS, and probably even more to change the plane of its orbit from
>39� to 51.6� inclination (not to mention any necessary rotation of the line
>of nodes). IOW, if the shuttle is not originally launched into an orbit
>which is meant to rendezvous with the ISS, it probably doesn't have
>anywhere enough fuel on board to make such a large orbital change.
What if, say, they decided that Columbia couldn't make it back to Earth,
and thus they were going to make a *one-way* trip to the ISS to evacuate
the shuttle?
Is it likely that they would have had enough fuel for that?
JDG
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