Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Two shuttles at a time?
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.231453.23021@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <35201@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 90 23:14:53 GMT

In article <35201@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v071pzp4@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>Could NASA support two shuttles in space at the same time?

It is not theoretically impossible; back in the optimistic days very early
in the program, there was some planning for the possibility.  However, the
current support systems are very much oriented to one-at-a-time missions.
I doubt that it would be tried except in dire emergency.
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