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NASA's Theoretical Rescue Plan for Columbia

posted by janrinok on Friday February 28 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the Are-you-sure-this-will-work dept.

germanbird writes:

"ArsTechnica has published a story taking a look at NASA's theoretical rescue plan for the space shuttle Columbia. The ambitious yet plausible plan was included as part of the report prepared during the investigation after the shuttle was lost during re-entry. I appreciate the author's perspective and his analysis of things as a sys-admin at Boeing he was much closer to the situation than most of us were. I for one would have liked to see the men and women at NASA given the chance to try to pull this one off, but I'm not sure it would have been worth the risk to the rescue team or even possible given the compressed schedule."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by adp on Friday February 28 2014, @06:41PM

    by adp (1083) on Friday February 28 2014, @06:41PM (#8852)

    The article is talking about cutting corners in procedures. You know where else corners were cut? In Baikonur, in October 1960. [wikipedia.org]

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