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i don't think he was talking about fixing kepler. just building a new, less-shitty one. and however "powerful" the shuttle was, it couldn't get to something 3
by sigstoat 13y ago
i don't think he was talking about fixing kepler. just building a new, less-shitty one.
and however "powerful" the shuttle was, it couldn't get to something 3 light-minutes away (which was kepler's distance, the last time i looked)
- MichaelMoser123 13y agoSo Armageddon was impossible? I am disappointed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film) "American Components, Russian Components, all the same, all made in Taiwan!"
- jlgreco 13y agoIIRC the Space Shuttles used in Aermageddon were not "the" space shuttles, but some hypothetical semi-secret project shuttles that the movie made up. But yeah, the space shuttles were LEO only. IIRC the highest they ever went was up to Hubble, and I think that was pretty close to the most they could manage. Though now that I think about it, I am pretty sure they generally jettisoned the external fuel tanks with a little fuel left over, maybe they could delay the jettison to get into slightly higher orbits than usual.