Dave | ||||| Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 08:06 am
Up there the choices are orbit or fall. But there are orbits that stay in the sun all the time, if you run over the pole and stay above the day-night terminator. However, with work lights, you don't really need sunlight, so it's not an issue. HST is in the orbit it's in because it's the minimum-fuel orbit from Kennedy Space Center -- using less fuel means more capacity to carry up cargo. Working three shifts would mean adding 8 more crew members -- I don't think there's room. |