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From: jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: back-up crews
Keywords: back-up crew
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.144245.15969@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 14:42:45 GMT
References: <8025@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <1991Apr10.061620.18949@santra.uucp>
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klappala@vipunen.hut.fi ("Kuisma Lappalainen") writes:

>In article <8025@eos.arc.nasa.gov> brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody) writes:
>>Since they abolished back-up crews since STS 4, what is the plan if
>>someone gets sick or for some reason cannont make the flight?  How long
>>before the flight do the crew go into quarantine to prevent catching
>>someone's cold or the flu?

>I think that is a fortnight's time. I heard about it when visiting N.A.S.A.
>last January at JFK's Space Center in Florida.

I seem to recall several instances of Shuttle crews going back to Houston to
get in an extra couple of days of sims after scrubs; do they somehow keep them
quarantined during this time?
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