Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: rescue missions
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.002610.13898@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 00:26:10 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.204556.16156@athena.mit.edu> <1991Feb26.112746.11838@pbs.org> <1991Feb26.230611.4715@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> <675@newave.UUCP> <62941@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <2433@ksr.com> <1991Mar7.171349.14914@dmntor.UUCP> <1991Mar9.050346.28010@cimage.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar9.050346.28010@cimage.com> gregc@dgsi.UUCP (Greg Cronau/10000) writes:
>... Movies like
>"Marooned" to the contrary, I sincerely doubt that NASA would risk losing
>a *second* shuttle on the *very slight* chance of saving another one...

In fact, although I don't remember whether this came out in the movie, the
book it was based on got this right:  it had NASA balk at trying a rescue
mission until the President specifically ordered one.
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