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Do you have a source besides the Daily Mail? There are other ways to get astronauts back from the ISS, if they knew about the issue ahead of time.
by knowaveragejoe 11y ago
Do you have a source besides the Daily Mail? There are other ways to get astronauts back from the ISS, if they knew about the issue ahead of time.
- mikeash 11y agoColumbia's last mission wasn't an ISS mission. They had a pretty limited amount of time before it became hard to breathe. There was a potential rescue option in the form of Atlantis which was already being prepped for another mission and could have been redirected to pick up the Columbia astronauts, but it would have been a big rush and would have required getting things rolling fairly rapidly after they became aware of the ice strike.