146 ordspråk av Wayne Hale
Wayne Hale
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.
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frankly it doesn't save you very much money. . . . From my point of view, that's a non-starter.
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Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry, or some bad things could happen.
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Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.
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However, based on the discussion we had at the program board yesterday it appears that the May launch window is something we can begin to work on -- the launch window May 3 to May 23.
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I am not here to tell you that we are 100 percent confident that there is no risk during re-entry. That would be untrue and foolish to even try to make that case. But I am here to tell you that we've assessed this risk to the very best of our engineering knowledge and we believe that it is remote, small, whatever adjective you want to put with that.
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I definitely would not take that off the table.
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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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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.
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I think we have said it before and I'll say it one more time, we missed something here. That has got to be rectified before we fly again.
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I think we're beginning to have our hands well around the technical problems that we have and to find the fixes that are going to be necessary to fly again.
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I understand its shortcomings. But I'm going to be sorry to see it go into the Smithsonian.
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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.
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I was absolutely mortified at the performance of the external tank foam, and we were not going to fly again until we fix it.
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I would not call that a serious launch date at this point.
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