Being a golfer, I'm interested in it, too. But we're absolutely going to make sure it's a safe thing to do before we execute it. |
Between us and our Russian partners, we're going to do the right thing. |
Either we'll find them, or we'll launch more. |
It's a new beginning for the space station. |
It's essentially a guillotine. It's really important that we fix this before we can use the mobile transporter. |
It's important to our long-term goal of having six humans onboard performing all the research and activities we have planned. |
It's unfortunate but we do lose things occasionally on the space station. There are lots of nooks and crannies, and ... things don't stay where you put them. They float away. |
It's very important that we repair this. |
We are certainly 'no go' now, but we are working very hard to be in a 'go' position. |
We can return to the moon and ultimately to Mars. |
We do lose things occasionally on board the space station. There are a lot of places. There are little nooks and crannies and oh by the way, things don't stay where you put them. They float away. You put them in a rack, but that doesn't mean it doesn't float behind something else. |
We're in negotiations with our Russian partners. We're confident that as time progresses we'll be able to come to an agreement that's amenable to both us and the Russians. |
When they heat treated it ... they got about 100 degrees hotter than they were supposed to get and because of that, it caused this change in the metal. You wouldn't want to hook one of these tethers to a piece of material you are not confident in. |