146 ordspråk av Wayne Hale
Wayne Hale
The simple things we did quickly did not provide any resolution of the problem. We are going forward on a day-by-day basis, and as soon as we find the problem we will fix it, and as soon as we fix it we will be four days from launch.
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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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The workforce there is really proud of what they've done. My hat is off to them.
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The worst case that [the engineers] think would happen is a piece that is 0.05 pounds is the maximum-size piece that could come off, ... If you make a series of worst-case assumptions, then you wouldn't like the result.
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The worst case that [the engineers] think would happen is a piece that is 0.05 pounds is the maximum-size piece that could come off. If you make a series of worst-case assumptions, then you wouldn't like the result.
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There are a total of 34 ice frost ramps on the external tank.
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There are certain risks involved. You could damage the tank.
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There are risks in spaceflight,
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There aren't a lot of emotive people around here. But there's going to be a lot of prayers and thanksgiving.
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There was a strong, concerted opinion from several folks that we should wait until we have a good design on the ice frost ramps and then change them before we go flying.
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they were not concerned about big pieces coming off.
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They're working to compress a decade's worth of study into two days,
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They're working to compress a decade's worth of study into two days.
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This a life-or-death kind of situation. They (the sensors) can prevent bad things from happening if they work properly, and certainly if they work badly, they can cause failings to happen ... . Either way you can get in trouble.
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this admittedly very rapid set of tests and analyses that have been run.
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