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...
time
Time will tell. This is not like the railroad.
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Any time you have pieces come off your craft in flight it's a really bad day.
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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.
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The gap fillers, that's a product of the fact that we can see more and do a better job of evaluating. That's probably something that's happened in flight before, but this is the first time we've known about it and could take remedial action.
hardware paying playing talking
We were playing the odds. The hardware was talking to us, and we were not paying attention.
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We will not launch until we are sure we can do it safely. But if we launch by July, we are confident we can still get three flights up this year.
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We wish it had worked out differently, but it's first and foremost that we fly safely. It was prudent to change these sensors out.
We are under no thought of delaying launch.
believe pieces tank
Foam will still come off the tank after we have done all of these mitigation efforts. We believe the pieces that come off will be small.
call fact perhaps pieces small solid strike
Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.
call fact perhaps pieces small solid strike
Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter, but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.
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Everything seems to be looking very good for a landing Monday evening at the Kennedy Space Center.
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The thing that's going to pace getting Discovery off the ground is not the work we're doing at the Kennedy Space Center. It is the engineering analysis and tests that go toward proving what we have assembled is safe to fly.
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We've looked end-to-end at the shuttle to make improvements and make it safer than it has ever been.