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I'm happy to see that this happened successfully. It reminds me of a counterfactual which is that there was a long-shot possibility by which the crew of the Sp
by upwardbound 3y ago
I'm happy to see that this happened successfully. It reminds me of a counterfactual which is that there was a long-shot possibility by which the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia could have been rescued from orbit by another Shuttle crew, rather than sending them down to re-enter in the Columbia with its damaged heat-shield. No attempt was made to mount this hypothetical rescue but it would have been incredibly heroic: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue-plan-that-might-have-saved-space-shuttle-columbia/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue...
- awb 3y agoReally interesting read. It reads more like a due diligence thought experiment. Amazing that they went through the rigorous steps of analyzing just how challenging the entire mission would have been in significant detail after the first hurdle of getting the 2nd shuttle ready in time was found to be virtually impossible.