Posted on 08/16/2007 6:51:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Well, NASA wants to retire the shuttle anyway. If I were up there, I think I’d want a second opinion.
How secure would you feel knowing that management was "cautiously optomistic" that you would survive your work day?
If I were up there and heard that phrase, I'd put my puckered lips between my knees, so's to be in the proper position when needed.
Maybe they could leave half the astronauts on the station and just have the pilots bring it back.
that way the overall risk would be cut in half.
where is the bottle when you need it the most...hope those guys up there were able to stash one for a few shots before the road home!
i’m sure there’s some strong stuff stashed on the station.
assuming the tests reflected all conditions of the damage on the shuttle...a dangerous assumption
I too fear the old NASA management ways. Did they spend enough time addressing the tile issue or do they have reverse go fever to get the shuttle home?
Now now, Norm.
You're breaking the hearts of our resident doom-n-gloomers and know-it-alls.
The only reason to make the spacewalk repair is to reduce the amount of repair necessary after the Shuttle lands. It was decided the spacewalk wasn’t worth the time saving later.
lol, I grew up as Nasa grew up.. from afar I followed program after program.
Not to defend Nasa, but these are not fly-by night folks at Nasa, well, they do fly at night, but..,
They are definitely underfunded and in need of some new hardware to play with.
Personally I would like to have put some goop in the gap, after viewing some better resolution images, it’s not a mission killer. jmo.
I grew up in (and now live outside of) Huntsville. My Dad worked in the Space program...
They need to get rid of the diversity and feel-good crowd.
Bring back the gray gun-metal desks with real men in buzz-cuts and ties, puffing on their cigarettes.
I think it is over-confidence in procedures.
Geez, I’d have them do the repair just for the psychological benefit to the crew and the value of doing a ‘dry run’ of the process, not to mention the CYA factor.
Amid all the "I know more than you" claims and pontifications of this thread - this is the most cogent comment made so far.
As it stands, and I spent ten years on the shuttle in one capacity or another, it's like the "we're not Hurtz" rental car company assuring a customer that they can make it from Boston to San Diego on three good tires and the little spare dough-nut - doing it to save the $50.00 a new tire would cost them at fleet discount and because the maintenance shop was crowded when the issue came up.
100% of the Shuttles that have crashed had women on board. This one does, too. Let’s get ready for another crispy re-entry over the southern US.
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