Fortunately it's not moving toward any of our facilities. |
It will take some time really to understand what to do to remedy the situation. |
It's a very rainy day here. We can't see that it's gotten into anything yet. |
It's almost going to look like a hood ornament on top of that big rocket. We want to give it a lot of speed to get to Pluto as fast as we can. |
Liftoff of space shuttle Discovery, beginning America's new journey to the moon, Mars and beyond, |
Surveying for the deepest insights into the mysterious evolution of Mars! |
The only thing certain right now is that we are uncertain. |
There are long faces here in the control center and around the site. Everybody was so looking forward to flying today. |
There are no leaks in the hangars and the doors are sandbagged. The Pluto spacecraft is doing fine. |
They're good to go, ... They've given us the green light to proceed. |
We anticipate being open for regular business on Tuesday. |
We don't know exactly what happened to it, but we know not to fly with it |
We're concerned, and we're starting to button things up. We're putting sandbags in place, and we're starting to secure the flight hardware. |
We're looking at all the wiring on the entire vehicle from the nose to the tail. We're trying to do work to fix this problem so we don't have to spend time on it again in the future. |