Review Panel Takes a Look at ISS 'Safe-Haven' Idea

NASA has built its space shuttle return-to-flight plans around the idea that, if a shuttle is irreparably damaged during ascent, its crew can remain in the "safe haven" of the International Space Station until a rescue mission can be mounted using a second orbiter. Now the oversight panel set up to...

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