"Rusty Oxhide" <chogee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:23411-47BCDB3D-75@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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=100
>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" ©2000 Warner
~Bros (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland).
~
~Rusty Oxhide
Good point, the co-pilot is an old schooler, who was in NASA just as the
Apollo program was dying down, on his last hurrah, his last mission in
space, 2 days from retirement, natch, the young hotshot pilot gets injured
and its up to the old-timer to bring the shuttle down.
Meanwhile, one of the scientists reconciles with their estranged spouse
and
/ or offspring as they learn what's really important. One of the evacuated
space station crew goes into labor. Another injured shuttle crewmember
desperately needs to get back to Earth for life-saving surgery. Another
crewmember is a young rookie, fresh out of astronaut training school, and
the only one to suspect and eventually confirm the last member of the crew
is really a spy sent to sabotage the mission--and thus get into a
climactic
fight onboard the shuttle while it's dodging missiles and space debris
from
the exploding satellite!
-- Ken from Chicago (who's people will meet with your people to schedule
lunch)
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