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From: "Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:27 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Making the Shuttles safer

> NASA suggested today that it may make the shuttles safer by either
> flying fewer astronauts or eliminating them altogether

I've seen better choices of wording.... :-{

> turning the shuttles into robot spacecraft:

> =======================================
> WASHINGTON, March 24 Despite the breakup of the shuttle Columbia,
> the three other ships in the fleet may be needed until 2020, a top
> NASA official said today.
> He added that NASA could cut the risks in later years, when the
> shuttles will be approaching 40 years old, by flying with fewer
> astronauts or none at all if a planned orbital space plane is ready.
> ========================================

> Full story at:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/national/nationalspecial/25SHUT.html
> Wirt Atmar

What about the people that bits might fall on?

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