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Title: STS-144 Q&A
Post by: ZachS09 on 11/15/2012 07:50 pm

What 7 crew members would you want to assign to STS-144 if it was still in place to retrieve and return Hubble?

Title: Re: STS-144 Q&A
Post by: Jim on 11/15/2012 07:55 pm

Any qualified ones.

Title: Re: STS-144 Q&A
Post by: ZachS09 on 11/16/2012 01:38 pm

How about these:

Commander: Scott Altman
Pilot: Gus Loria (if his condition is okay)
Mission Specialist 1: Rick Mastracchio
Mission Specialist 2: Donald Thomas (if he was still in the astronaut corps)
Mission Specialist 3: Carlos Noriega
Mission Specialist 4: Ellen Ochoa
Mission Specialist 5: Boris Morukov (possibly the first Russian cosmonaut during a HST mission)

This is a proposed crew; on the other hand, I am already aware that it was cancelled due to NASA saying that Hubble was supposed to go through a controlled reentry.

Title: Re: STS-144 Q&A
Post by: Jim on 11/16/2012 01:47 pm

Quote from: longdrivechampion102 on 11/16/2012 01:38 pm

How about these:

Commander: Scott Altman
Pilot: Gus Loria (if his condition is okay)
Mission Specialist 1: Rick Mastracchio
Mission Specialist 2: Donald Thomas (if he was still in the astronaut corps)
Mission Specialist 3: Carlos Noriega
Mission Specialist 4: Ellen Ochoa
Mission Specialist 5: Boris Morukov (possibly the first Russian cosmonaut during a HST mission)

Why?  Especially the Russian.

Title: Re: STS-144 Q&A
Post by: Orbiter on 11/16/2012 02:06 pm

The STS-144 crew would probably have been identical to the STS-125 crew.

Title: Re: STS-144 Q&A
Post by: ZachS09 on 01/25/2013 12:28 am

The reason why I thought Morukov would have been Mission Specialist 5 is because I thought it would be nice for NASA and the RKA to give him another chance to fly in space.

Title: Re: STS-144 Q&A
Post by: Jim on 01/25/2013 12:32 am

Quote from: longdrivechampion102 on 01/25/2013 12:28 am

The reason why i thought Morukov wouldve been mission specialist 5 is because i thought it would be nice for nasa and the rka to give him another chance to fly in space.

Not for this mission