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- http://www.theregist...shuttle_to_fly/
1st July 2005
"NASA has set the date for the Shuttle's launch, despite suggestions from an independent safety panel earlier this week that all the safety requirements have not yet been met. Discovery is now slated to take to the skies on 13 July, commanded by Eileen Collins. Chief administrator Michael Griffin said that the space agency had come to the decision after "a vigorous, healthy discussion", adding that while improvements to safety have been made since the loss of Columbia, people need to remember that space flight is an inherently risky business. The panel concluded on Monday this week that NASA had only partly complied with the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's recommendations, although it commended its efforts. Specifically, the panel said NASA had only met 12 of the 15 recommendations of the CIAB. It said the three NASA had not met were the most fundamentally important, including one that the external tank be fixed so that debris could not fall and damage any part of the shuttle before take-off..."
- http://today.reuters...-SHUTTLE-DC.XML
"...If Discovery is damaged and cannot return to Earth, NASA's plan is to harbor the astronauts at the International Space Station until Atlantis can be launched on a rescue mission..."
Edited by AplusWebMaster, 01 July 2005 - 05:43 AM.
