Paul Hill
Paul Hill
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We are in really good shape. The vehicle is in pristine condition. All tests are good, we are ready to go. De-orbit is not a risk free activity. Our big risk now would be weather.
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There are folks that have the impression that NASA needs to fly this flight so that we can demonstrate that we really understand how to fly in space again. Well, that's not technically true. If we don't know that this is all going to work, we're not ready to fly ... You know you can do it again, but you got to do it again.
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It'll be a huge sense of accomplishment having gotten through the last two years and demonstrated that we still know how to do this very difficult and dangerous business.
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During de-orbit, I'm sure I'll have a thought or two about Rick Husband and his crew. At wheel stop, I'm sure all of us are going to think a lot about the 107 crew.
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We are going to be pretty darn happy to get to wheels stop and see this good crew step off. It'll be a huge sense of accomplishment having gotten through the last two years and demonstrated that we still know how to do this very difficult and dangerous business.
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everything since the first 10 minutes of the mission has gone perfectly, and most of the stuff that has gone perfectly is stuff we didn't even know how to do 2 1/2 years ago.
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De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. Our big risk now, aside from the inherent risk of de-orbiting through a fireball, would be weather.
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De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. It's all downhill from a certain perspective.
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De-orbit is not a risk-free activity. We will be pretty darned happy to get to wheelstop and see this good crew step off Discovery.
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If we get an answer we really don't like from the tests and analysis it would give us an opportunity to go outside and do something about this, although we don't expect that to be a likely outcome.
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We're going to take the time and snap some pictures from some angles we've haven't seen since the last orbiter was there.
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Before I go in (the mission control) building, I assume I'll have a thought or two about the 107 crew.
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If you believe abortion is a lethal force, you should oppose the force and do what you have to do to stop it. May God help you to protect the unborn as you would want to be protected.
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There haven't been many days in the last 2 1/2 years that I came in to work and wasn't thinking about them at some point or another.