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

["Benigno Muñiz Jr."]

At 01:07 PM 06-03-08, James Oberg wrote:
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>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.

Also, there are other ways to get additional supplies to a Shuttle 
crew in orbit.

And more germane to this thread, there are also other ways to get 
AMS-02 to ISS.