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So at one point NASA did have a second shuttle on standby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-125#Contingency_mission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-125#Contin
by pwnna 13y ago
So at one point NASA did have a second shuttle on standby.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-125#Contingency_mission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-125#Contingency_mission
- grecy 13y agoRight, that was after the incident in question. So obviously before the incident they were accepting the risk of no standby, where-as they revised that and decided that for a particular mission where using the ISS as a life-boat was not an option, they needed a standby to accept the risk.