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To: ownstock who wrote (316)	2/4/2003 9:17:03 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 627

The space station rescue maneuver would have required both vehicles (shuttle and ISS) to execute maximum delta velocity adjustments. Basically the shuttle going up, and the ISS going down. You are assuming that they were at the same plane but different orbits. In reality the space station and the shuttle were at different inclinations etc.. Assuming that the nodes were the same, which they probably were not, the required delta V would have been about 40% of the total orbital velocity even without orbit raising. Clark

To: ownstock who wrote (316)	2/5/2003 4:55:26 PM
From: Yogizuna	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 627

Perhaps I am highly cynical, but even if a rescue could have been accomplished that way, I do not believe they would have sacrificed the space station "just" to save one crew on the shuttle.... There are huge egos and selfish interests involved here, and you can imagine the uproar which would have followed if they brought down the ISS on what was speculation at the time about the survivability of Columbia II on reentry.