Richard Goodwin and Dennis Wingo have provided NASA end of mission planners a unique idea of retiring the last space shuttle on-orbit. The idea appears to be worthy of consideration even if the shuttle launch manifest is pushed into 2011 for the long-duration space shuttle mission and to continue the legacy of the technology.There were ideas similar to this early in the shuttle program to retire space shuttle external fuel tanks on-orbit to build a lower cost space station but contractors preferred a new systems build rather than retrofit an on-orbit tank. Perhaps this idea will fair better as it is a thought provoking worthy of serious consideration.
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