I'm sure a lot of you will laugh at me, I'm fairly use to this by now with a wife of 11 years. :lol:
As the title says, I'm fairly ignorant to a lot of physics, cost, etc regarding space but, I thought I'd ask the questions that keep me awake at night wondering:
I know the space shuttle can go to the ISS, so why bring it back to Earth? Once it's up there, why can't it be used as a permanent space vehicle? If extra fuel was sent up, couldn't it be refueled in space? Is this just something completely ridiculous?
If one of the shuttles was bought or was acquired by a conglomerate or whatever couldn't it be used as kind-of a private industry space maintenance vehicle to work on failing satellites and other things?
I do understand that it wasn't ever "meant" to do this, but there's a lot of things in this world that are being used for different purposes than their original intent.
The shuttle is a system seems to work. Yes, it's a pretty darn old system, but it's very functional isn't it? I always thought the major issues with with shuttle program were getting it up there, and then getting it back down. Once it's up there, why can't it just stay up there and be refueled etc in space?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my silly questions!!!!!
As the title says, I'm fairly ignorant to a lot of physics, cost, etc regarding space but, I thought I'd ask the questions that keep me awake at night wondering:
I know the space shuttle can go to the ISS, so why bring it back to Earth? Once it's up there, why can't it be used as a permanent space vehicle? If extra fuel was sent up, couldn't it be refueled in space? Is this just something completely ridiculous?
If one of the shuttles was bought or was acquired by a conglomerate or whatever couldn't it be used as kind-of a private industry space maintenance vehicle to work on failing satellites and other things?
I do understand that it wasn't ever "meant" to do this, but there's a lot of things in this world that are being used for different purposes than their original intent.
The shuttle is a system seems to work. Yes, it's a pretty darn old system, but it's very functional isn't it? I always thought the major issues with with shuttle program were getting it up there, and then getting it back down. Once it's up there, why can't it just stay up there and be refueled etc in space?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my silly questions!!!!!
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