Admitting Mistakes

by Robert N. Charette

"We haven't found any eureka or any smoking gun so far." So said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) external tank project manager John Chapman at a press conference last week, in which NASA admitted that it still hadn't determined what caused the foam to come off the external tank during the July launch of Discovery. Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale said that although NASA was hoping to fly by May 2006, it wasn't going to "do something stupid" or set arbitrary dates when the shuttle had to be launched. "The results of the technical investigation are going to allow us to fly," Hale said [1].

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Admitting MistakesThu Dec 01 15:16:12 CST 2005