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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: 1) by Jaruzel on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:26AM
Having read through the entire Ars article yesterday, I couldn't help but think that it'd make a good movie anyway, even if it wasn't feasible in reality. Seeing two shuttles 'inverted' like that and EVA rescues between them, would be awesome on the big screen. Hopefully in the future, someone will option this into film.
Obviously, sadness due to the loss of life at the time - but Space Exploration is risky. There's no getting away from that. How many thousands people were lost when exploring the planet was just as risky even as little as 100 years ago ?
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