[FPSPACE] The Saga of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the ISS

[Robert Law]

yes !, I remember reading about this soume time ago , I think NASA was not to keen to risc loosing a shuttle via remote control , if the russians could do the same with buran  it should not be a problem
   
  Robert

LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> wrote:
  

Can the Space Shuttle be launched and manuevered in orbit without a crew?

Larry


>From: palladium at aol.com
>To: jeoberg at comcast.net, ljk4 at msn.com, fpspace at friends-partners.org
>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] The Saga of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the 
>ISS
>Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:51:30 -0500
>
>Jim et al:
>
>One other possibility:
>
>Elon Musk's Dragon cargo / crew transport capsule is supposed to be 
>flight-ready by 2010. This can hold 6 crew members:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon
>
>Perhaps NASA could contract to have a Falcon 9 / Dragon standing by with a 
>one or two-person crew and five empty seats?
>
>I also wonder if the Dragon might answer the need for a large-capacity crew 
>rescue vehicle for the station and enable it to start hosting larger 
>long-duration crews?
>
>Dave Michaels
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Oberg 
>To: LARRY KLAES ; fpspace at friends-partners.org
>Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:07 am
>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] The Saga of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the 
>ISS
>
>
>The last scheduled shuttle mission in 2010 will have a 'rescue shuttle'
>ready to pick up the crew if needed, with a four person crew
>(clearly a very veteran set of astronauts) fully trained and ready
>to make the 'LAST PLUS ONE' shuttle mission.
>
>NASA is considering using that flight as the bonus transport
>mission, perhaps for AMS and other spares.
>
>But it needs a crew rescue option in the event the mission
>suffers lethal heat shield damage and is stranded on the
>space station.
>
>There is one tantalizing option: fly the mission with a
>three-person crew and have a Soyuz vehicle on
>standby for pickup. Or instead of all three landing
>in a Soyuz that came up empty, split them up in a
>normal crew down-rotation AND a later rescue-devoted
>additional Soyuz.
>
>Because of the larger station crew, and the much smaller
>shuttle crew in need of rescue, the supplies needed for
>the previous shuttle crew's 90-day stayover could last
>six months or more, significantly relaxing the time-criticality
>of retrieval of the stranded shuttle crew.
>
>It -- might -- work.
>
>
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