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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 resignator on Friday February 28 2014, @06:51PM
You do realize a new shuttle is already in the works, right? It also looks like I got my wish for an emergency abort system, too!
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index .html/ [nasa.gov]
"Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities." -nasa.gov
"NASA also is making progress with the development of the Space Launch System (SLS) - an advanced heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new national capability for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit" -nasa.gov
Just two days ago, the parachute system designed for Orion passed another hurdle in test that put extra stress on drogue parachutes and simulated a failure. Scrapping the new shuttle is very unlikely at this point since it has already been budgeted for. So cheer up and quit acting like the sky is falling. Space flight will continue into the next century and beyond.