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From: rcj@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Robert Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Long duration shuttle?
Message-ID: <6394@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 12 Dec 88 03:20:37 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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I was just sitting around the other day, beeing generally depressed that
it would take 10-15 years to get a space station up, when we had a perfectly
good one (better than anything the ruskies had up at the time) with Skylab,
and got to thinking...Is there any way to load the shuttle up with a lab
module and more stores than usual and have it sit up there for 90 days or so?
Maybe even have a docking port in the bay as well and dock onto a supply
of food shot up with an expendable?  That way we could get some good experiance
in long (sort of) duration space flight and do some good experimental work,
so that when Freedom finally gets here, we will at least have some experiance.

Any reasons this would[n't] work?

          Robert Johnson
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            rcj@killer.DALLAS.TX.US