STS-400

MacCaulay

Banned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-400

STS-400 was the Space Shuttle contingency support (Launch On Need) flight which would have been launched using Space Shuttle Endeavour if a major problem occurred on Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (HST SM-4).[1][2][3][4]
Due to the much lower orbital inclination of the HST compared to the ISS, the shuttle crew would have been unable to use the International Space Station as a "safe haven" and NASA would not have been able to follow the usual plan of recovering the crew with another shuttle at a later date.[3] Instead, NASA developed a plan to conduct a shuttle-to-shuttle rescue mission, similar to proposed rescue missions for pre-ISS flights.[3][5][6] The rescue mission would have been launched only three days after call up and as early as seven days after the launch of STS-125 since the crew of Atlantis would only have about three weeks of consumables after launch.[2]
The mission was first rolled out in September 2008 to Launch Complex 39B two weeks after the STS-125 shuttle was rolled out to Launch Complex 39A. This created a rare scenario of two shuttles being on the launch pads at the same time.[3] In October 2008, however, STS-125 was subsequently delayed and rolled back to the VAB.


I think this was pretty cool. You don't want to know how I found this. It's really creepy.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-400
I think this was pretty cool. You don't want to know how I found this. It's really creepy.

I can top that.

Some time after the disaster, a few NASA engineers sat down and worked out the simpliest, cheapest, dirtiest, most reliable way of keeping the crew alive for a couple of months (before a second shuttle/progress could be sent up) if they had spotted the hole.

Without the five years they would normally take to design a space vehicle, and the three years of testing they would normally go through to ensure neither vessel would endanger each other - the method they came up with was a flying trash can with a serrated spike on the front. (Deliberately overweight so multiple versions could be built and adapted to be launched on any rocket.) The idea being to ram it into a non vital part of the shuttle at moderate speeds. Compare and contrast with NASA's usual attitude to orbital debris...

:cool:
 

Hyperion

Banned
No. Seriously. You don't want to know. It's creepy stalkerish. Especially for a guy who's already got a girlfriend. :eek:

We can handle the truth.

What's the worst that can happen.

It's not like anything bad would happen.

You'll be perfectly fine.
 
Lemme guess... Megan McArthur? ;)

My money is on this.



I can top that.

Some time after the disaster, a few NASA engineers sat down and worked out the simpliest, cheapest, dirtiest, most reliable way of keeping the crew alive for a couple of months (before a second shuttle/progress could be sent up) if they had spotted the hole.

Without the five years they would normally take to design a space vehicle, and the three years of testing they would normally go through to ensure neither vessel would endanger each other - the method they came up with was a flying trash can with a serrated spike on the front. (Deliberately overweight so multiple versions could be built and adapted to be launched on any rocket.) The idea being to ram it into a non vital part of the shuttle at moderate speeds. Compare and contrast with NASA's usual attitude to orbital debris...


Goddamn, I was not aware of that. No way whatsoever it could fail catastrophically.

Also, are you aware of MOOSE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE
 
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