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...
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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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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.
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?
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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.
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.
change fly foremost prudent wish worked
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.
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We have a considerable amount of work ahead of us. We won't proceed until we've done the work to prove that it's safe to fly.
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.
clear everybody guys launch next ought talk
You guys ought to be aware, and we have got to make it clear to everybody we talk to, when we launch the next flight, there is still going to be foam come off the tank.
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Everything seems to be looking very good for a landing Monday evening at the Kennedy Space Center.