> definately a better way to go, but most effective location is either > peru or india. the distance to a geosync orbit being reduced by the > altitude of the base. > the US government will never approve of a system that could not be based > in continental us. not for the space program. > > not unless it was an international programm, with several counties > sharing costs equally. and even then the US would want thier own program > under thier sole control. > the team still in the space station will have to use an old russian > re-entry vehicle to get down next month, as nasa will probably be > shutting all flights down for a year..again
Not likely this time. In '86 we didn't know for sure the cause. This time it happened on reentry. Matthew
