The Shuttle Mission No One Wants 404
Fourmica writes "USA Today (by way of TechNewsWorld) has a surprisingly insightful look at the planned 'rescue option' for Discovery's upcoming launch. The plan, which has been mentioned here before, is to have the crew hole up on the ISS until Atlantis can launch to bring them home. My question is, why shove everyone into the ISS? Why not just dock with it, and share the life support supplies between the two systems, instead of cramming everyone into the station?" See this earlier story on the same topic.
double dock and share? (Score:5, Funny)
Easy solution (Score:3, Funny)
Pass a law giving NASA the sole movie rights to the rescue mission.
That by itself won't even be enough to cover the cost. But wait... there are 293,027,571 Americans according to Google. At $10 a ticket, that pretty much covers it. But how do you get everyone to watch it?
Pass a law that revokes the citizenship of anyone who can't present the ticket stub for the movie on request.
I really need to get into policy work.
Re:RC Landing? (Score:3, Funny)
porp
If Mohammed cannot come to the mountain... (Score:5, Funny)
Mind you, that last wouldn't be pretty, but this is already an emergency scenario. In such cases, people think way outside the box, equipment gets used for alternate purposes, and plans get modified. Sometimes literally.
Disclaimer: I am not an astronaut, I just work with one.Re:Answer (Score:5, Funny)
So, do you suppose that somewhere in NASA's big manual of back up plans there is a page that says:
1. Other incidents not yet mentioned...
2. ???
3. Mission saved!
Re:Easy solution (Score:1, Funny)
Re:uh...no (Score:3, Funny)
Then have everyone root for the shuttle to get destroyed?
Sounds like a fun way to end-of-life the shuttle program - and justify the "Star Wars" program - all at once.
Re:Orbital Penal Colony (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Answer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Answer (Score:5, Funny)
"My God!", he exclaims.
The others all crowd even closer together to try to get a look, which would have been difficult even without the mass of people due to the thick smoke that had gathered over the course of this marathon meeting.
Gregory regains his composure, and trying to keep as dignified as possible stammers out, "lostwanderer147 doesn't think we know what we're doing."
A hush falls over the assembled chiefs of NASA.
He contines. "He says we're in a death spiral, and unless something big happens soon, the US space program will be history."
There's a low murmer as they discuss what must be done, but almost immediately Schumacher has a solution.
"We've got to contact this lostwanderer147, and give him full control of NASA, as he alone is our hope for a future."
Everyone agrees, and they set about trying to find him.
Tragically, his email address is not displayed with his postings or profile, and NASA is no more.
Re:Sorry for pointing out the obvious... (Score:3, Funny)
Outsource (Score:2, Funny)