Re: Pentagon to Shuttle: Gangway! [ken]

Hi Ken, you wrote:

>The Pentagon is scheduled to shoot down a
>wayward spy satellite (bad satellite, bad
>satellite!) after the space shuttle gets out of the
>way. 
>http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN
>560620220080216?virtualBrandChannel=3D100
>5

>There's beautiful basis for an sf story or movie
>or tv episode: 
>--A failing falling satellite, filled with dangerous
>chemicals threatens to fall on some hapless
>innocent city (or potential grim reapers).
>--There's limited time to shoot it down before it
>crashes.

Sounds somewhat similar to a movie I saw: "Space Cowboys" =A92000 Warner
Bros (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland).

Rusty Oxhide