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<blockquote data-quote="Kilmore" data-source="post: 672854" data-attributes="member: 5226">There's three shuttles left: Discovery, Endeavor, and Atlantis.There's two Americans and a Russian on the Space Station.&nbsp; The shuttle disaster has disrupted the timetable for their crew rotation, but the International Space Station has a Russian Soyuz capsule docked on standby at all times should evacuation be necessary.&nbsp; A shuttle, the Endeavor I believe, was scheduled to deliver more pieces and a crew rotation for the station, but I believe that since the shuttles are grounded indefinitely after the tragedy, NASA and Rosaviacosmos will rotate the crews with a Soyuz launch and put off further station construction until the shuttles are clear to launch again.The space station is not up to it's full potential yet, but it is certainly liveable and workable now, and the Russians have just launched a freighter that will keep them supplied until summer.&nbsp; The station mission is not really jeapordized by the loss of Columbia.&nbsp; The Columbia wasn't even able to operate with the station and was only used for science and satellite missions.&nbsp; The other three shuttles do the work on the station.I see the shuttles being grounded for a year at most.&nbsp; The loss of the Challenger was due to internal problems that were not able to be discovered until months of investigation.&nbsp; The Columbia seems to have been lost to more obvious causes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kilmore, post: 672854, member: 5226"] There's three shuttles left: Discovery, Endeavor, and Atlantis. There's two Americans and a Russian on the Space Station. The shuttle disaster has disrupted the timetable for their crew rotation, but the International Space Station has a Russian Soyuz capsule docked on standby at all times should evacuation be necessary. A shuttle, the Endeavor I believe, was scheduled to deliver more pieces and a crew rotation for the station, but I believe that since the shuttles are grounded indefinitely after the tragedy, NASA and Rosaviacosmos will rotate the crews with a Soyuz launch and put off further station construction until the shuttles are clear to launch again. The space station is not up to it's full potential yet, but it is certainly liveable and workable now, and the Russians have just launched a freighter that will keep them supplied until summer. The station mission is not really jeapordized by the loss of Columbia. The Columbia wasn't even able to operate with the station and was only used for science and satellite missions. The other three shuttles do the work on the station. I see the shuttles being grounded for a year at most. The loss of the Challenger was due to internal problems that were not able to be discovered until months of investigation. The Columbia seems to have been lost to more obvious causes. [/QUOTE]

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