RE: shuttle breaks up on re-entry

From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 18:38:44 MST

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Why couldn't the ship be retained as an orbital transfer vehicle? It's in
orbit - halfway to anywhere...and damaged tiles don't matter up there.

Chuck Kuecker

At 17:36 02/02/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>If Columbia couldn't be salvaged, then the SpaceLab module could have
>been disconnected over time and incorporated into ISS, Columbia stripped
>and "scuttled".
>
>(An old salvage lawyer's mind at work, I guess ...)
>
>Greg Burch
>Vice-President, Extropy Institute
>http://www.gregburch.net

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