For kibitzing - TSAB gazetteer entry

[M Fnord]

Wow, go to sleep for a couple hours and things explode.

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The trick is to do it from spares and chassis and custom work, play the public relations as phoenix - not zombie.

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It'd have to be *all* custom work - most of the Shuttle spares right now are in rotation on the three orbiters.

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But...I can't help but think that it'd be a far better tribute to the crew for it to be up there DOING something, in any form, rather than in pieces on the ground.

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Putting aside the whole desecration issue, there really isn't any point to trying to reassemble either Orbiter. This is what Challenger looked like after the accident, and there's even less left of Columbia. As a strictly practical matter it's better to honor the crews & the ships by letting the names continue on than trying to rebuild something that badly fucked up.

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and a docking bay big enough to hold a couple of Shuttles.

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I hate to break it to you, man, but that bay? *Not* big enough to hold a Shuttle. You could squeeze one in, but you'd scrape the shit out of the belly if you tried.

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As for the Shuttles "coming home", could we leave the Enterprise in the Smithsonian, on Earth? It never did break atmosphere, and Noah would want the 'Danes to have some reminder of the end of their manned space program if he's ever asked...

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I'm cool with that. Breaking it out of the Smithsonian would be such a massive pain in the ass as to not be worth it, and if the VVS/Hephaestus OV-201 project gets off the ground we'd be able to crank out our own Shuttles. ---
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