NASA Moves Rescue Shuttle for Risky Hubble Repair Mission
Key paragraph:
"NASA has been preparing Endeavour for an unprecedented rescue mission to retrieve the seven-astronaut crew of Atlantis in the event that shuttle suffers critical damage and is unable to return to Earth. As designed, the mission would launch Endeavour and a skeleton crew of four astronauts on relatively short notice to rendezvous with Hubble, where Atlantis astronauts would perform a series of spacewalks to leave their stricken ship."
OK, sorry, but it's time for American Movie Classics to screen this one a couple of times:
Speaking of which, the novel was written by Martin Caidin, more famous for Cyborg aka "The Six Million Dollar Man", who had a heck of a life.
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