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The towline a sailor threw saved ET‑70 - and bought him a house in time
A sailor towed a lost Space Shuttle external tank from a hurricane - seven months later it faced a courtroom fight. Did they make it in time?
The towline a sailor threw saved ET‑70 - and bought him a house in time
In this episode, we follow the chain of events linking a November hurricane, a maritime salvage case, and NASA’s first Shuttle‑Mir docking mission. The episode traces the decisions, engineering limits, and human moves that had to hold together for ET‑70 and Atlantis to make a rendezvous in orbit.
Person: Robert Gibson
Event: STS‑71 (Shuttle‑Mir docking mission)
Object: ET‑70…
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