On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:05:39 -0800 (PST), Michael Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keep in mind that he resolution seen in the photos released from AMOS >may not be as detailed as possible. Either way, you're right. It would >have been rough. There is the possibility that Atlantis could have >been preped and sent to join her in less than 2 week, but it would >have been very hard. A lot of short cuts would have had to be made. Doug Jones tells me the EDO package was on board. If that was the case, and they had gotten AMOS pictures early in the flight, and the AMOS pictures had indicated a problem - a lot of ifs - then they could have turned off the experiments and hunkered down to wait for rescue. The EDO package is good for 28 days. If I'm not mistaken, the pacing item for consumables is cooling water. Turn off the science experiments and you don't need as much cooling water. Atlantis was scheduled for launch today. We could be, right now, a few hours into the first space rescue, instead of a few weeks into yet another Shuttle mishap investigation. -R -- Every complex, difficult problem has a simple, easy solution - which is wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
