henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (03/12/91)
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. -- "But this *is* the simplified version | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology for the general public." -S. Harris | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry