[onedoug]

“No spacecraft are currently available to facilitate astronauts return to Earth. We ask that you please bear with us.”

[Nowhere Man]

“No spacecraft are currently available to facilitate astronauts return to Earth. We ask that you please bear with us.”

I wonder if we really had to, we can somehow take one of the shuttles out of retirement to pick them up and how long it would take. I even woinder if we can get one of the old Apollos that were nver used to send up if we had to. I remember seeing a movie called "Marooned" (1969) starring Richard Crenna, James FRanciscus, Gregory Peck and David Janssen where Janssen was sent up in a hastily modified Apollo converted into a space glider to rescue the three astronauts stranded in space. I also remember even the Russians diverted one of their Vokshods to help the astronauts too.