posted 06-27-2005 10:36 PM
Ben Cooper posted news of the RTF Task Group's findings to the thread Debris Verification Review.NASA will announce the target launch date for STS-114 on Thursday.
The Stafford-Covey Return To Flight Task ( Group (SCRTFTG) did not have the responsibility of recommending when to launch; rather if NASA had met all the recommendations that the Columbia Accident Investigation Board put forth in their report.
The SCRTFTG held their final public meeting today and reported that they could not sign off on three CAIB recommendations, in part because the conditions by which they were made have changed. CAIB assumed the shuttle would fly past 2010, which it is not.
Further, tile repairs techniques have not advanced to the point that they could say that task had been completed. (NASA already announced they would be flying 114 without tile repair capability).
As Ben pointed out, Covey today said that it would not benefit the program to delay the launch. That NASA needed Discovery to fly in order to learn whether the improvements implemented work.
posted 06-27-2005 10:20 PM
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