For safety they can dock to the iss, and stay on board it, if they trouble. If need some of the crew can return to earth using the soyuz spacecraft, are wait for another shuttle to go up to dock, and bring them back. They don't have that option with a repair mission to the hst. Kevin --- paul <astro@pgog.net> wrote: > haven't I also read that NASA is not sending shuttle to HST > for maintenance update because that is not safe. it is safe > to repair ISS but not safe to repair HST. what am I not > understanding? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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