From: Tony Williams 

Raymond Chuang wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
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>>My second thought is: what happens to the people on the space station?
>>Grounding the entire shuttle fleet would leave them stranded.
>
>
> They have a Soyuz space capsule docked to the ISS right now. They could use
> that or the Russians could launch an empty Soyuz capsule to dock with ISS so
> the ISS crew can return.

Thanks, it's good that there are contingency plans. I really hope that this
doesn't lead to an abandonment of the ISS. The best way to honour the crew
of Columbia must be to keep their dream alive.

--
Tony 

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