Wayne Hale
Wayne Hale
N. Wayne Hale Jr.is a former NASA engineer. Previously a flight director and space shuttle program manager, Hale served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships prior to his retirement on July 31, 2010...
challenger cloud hoping
We were all hoping the Challenger would come out of that cloud of smoke.
proceed prove remain remains safe until work
I remain optimistic. There remains a lot of work to be done. We won't proceed until we've done the work to prove that it's safe to fly.
flights fly optimistic remain three time
I remain optimistic that if we fly by this summer, we will be able to get three flights off. But time will tell. This is not like the railroad.
accelerate believe case decided eliminate fairly flight folks hazard large might piece ramp ready remove strong third
In the long run, we have decided we would like to remove this fairly large piece of foam, just eliminate the hazard that it might cause. We think we have a very strong case to be ready to take that ramp off by the third flight tank. Some folks believe we can accelerate that and potentially even remove it for the STS-121 tank.
beginning bullish
I'm beginning to feel very bullish about the possibility of making May,
bad craft flight pieces time
Any time you have pieces come off your craft in flight it's a really bad day.
accomplish assemble clearly flights number space station
Clearly you can't have many more big, long stand-downs and accomplish the number of flights that it's going to take to assemble the International Space Station by that date.
air allowed area condense minimum number pal ready tank wire
That tank we have to do a number of things to, at the minimum removing and replacing the PAL ramps, re-working the bipod closeout area where we think the wire may have actually allowed cryogenic ingestion of air to condense in an area, ... We have a number of things that we've got to do before we're ready to do that work.
coming critical eliminate expect next sure trying
I wanted to make sure everyone understands we are trying to eliminate critical foam loss, but we will expect to see foam coming off this next tank.
action prudent worry worst
It was prudent to take action so that we wouldn't have to worry about some of the worst consequences.
ends job people send shuttle
It's not going to be like, shuttle ends and we send out our resumes and see if we can find a job at Wal-Mart or McDonald's. This is going to be, 'Oh My goodness! Where are we going to get enough people to do all the things on our plate?
study worth
They're working to compress a decade's worth of study into two days.
successful
It's been an outstandingly successful mission. We accomplished everything that we set out to do and more.
successful
It's been an outstandingly successful mission, ... We accomplished everything that we set out to do and more.