(Discovery) is a competency test for us. If we fail in that effort, then we have probably failed to demonstrate the competency to carry out that vision at all.
[The insulation blanket problem, however,] is a new one, ... I think in the old days we might not have worried about this so much.
And we're approaching that with a great deal of care.
Any time you have pieces come off your craft in flight it's a really bad day.
Are there parts of the shuttle that we haven't identified that we need to worry about? I hope not. But realistically there is something that we will uncover in the days to come that we need to work on.
As of this day, it's my understanding we are still going to fly with some risk. To characterize otherwise would be inappropriate ... (The risk) is very, very low, but I don't think we've driven it to zero.
Before we set an official launch date, we've got to get through some of the near term work. I think we're beginning to get our hands well around the problems we have.
but that would require a near-term lucky find.
Clearly you can't have many more big, long stand-downs and accomplish the number of flights that it's going to take to assemble the International Space Station by that date.
could be bad. ... And I'd rather not have that.
Every EVA is risky business. You need to have a good reason to do it.
Everything seems to be looking very good for a landing Monday evening at the Kennedy Space Center.
Final schedule setting will depend on how soon the workforce can get back online.
Flying a re-entry from 17,500 miles per hour to stop in this 100-ton glider that has got one shot at a runway is not what normal, sane people would normally call safe.
Flying a re-entry is not what normal sane people would normally call safe.
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