54 Quotes by Wayne Hale

We are under no thought of delaying launch.

Everything seems to be looking very good for a landing Monday evening at the Kennedy Space Center.

Foam will still come off the tank after we have done all of these mitigation efforts. We believe the pieces that come off will be small.

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.

Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.

Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter, but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.

So we're going to try to keep it in as near flight ready condition as we can without putting it through an OMDP so we can use those parts. Quite frankly, people are already calling us and asking us can they display one of our orbiters in their museum after we're done with it. I'm not giving anybody anything until we're all agreed the station is complete and the shuttle's job is done. In the sense that we're talking about mothballing, I'm not sure that's the term I'd use.

That tank we have to do a number of things to, at the minimum removing and replacing the PAL ramps, re-working the bipod closeout area where we think the wire may have actually allowed cryogenic ingestion of air to condense in an area, ... We have a number of things that we've got to do before we're ready to do that work.

They're working to compress a decade's worth of study into two days.