What 7 crew members would you want to assign to STS-144 if it was still in place to retrieve and return Hubble?
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.
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.
The STS-144 crew would probably have been identical to the STS-125 crew.
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.