9 Feb
2004
9 Feb
'04
1:26 p.m.
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
There are two STS launch pads. Could not a 2nd orbiter be put on standby "just in case"?
I believe that the personnel requirements become huge for 2 shuttles on-operations at the same time. Payroll would mushroom, budgets would have to be altered. Also long-established protocols & procedures would have to be altered & accellerated. But the short story, that I got out of the briefings, is that a 2nd shuttle on stand-by is just too darned expensive. C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html