At 2:13 PM -0600 3/13/03, rad0 wrote:
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>Why is an EVA is so problematic?
>
>  I don't see why they couldn't schedule one for training, we need this
>skill.


What I heard...somewhere...is that the belly side of the shuttle is
very smooth (duh!) and so there aren't places to grab or hold on to.
One expert said the probability that deadly damage would be caused by
an EVA is much higher than the probability of discovering deadly
damage due to some other cause.

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