CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight June 4, 2024 04:43:00
On the best information that we had at the time. Nobody wanted to do any harm to anyone. If a bunch of things went really right and they identified very early on and got images early on and everything went about perfectly, just maybe there could have been a rescue mission. But its questionable whether you could get the other orbiter, which would have been atlantis in this case, processed and out to the pad in time without putting that crew at serious risk. We would have had to pull together this huge effort in the eleventh hour to figure out how to fly one shuttle next to the other to conduct ...
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