Re: Shuttle launch delayed until July

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1175v63ea0sr485@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Meanwhile...has the Shuttle Hubble servicing mission returned?:
> http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050429/BREAKIN
> GNEWS/50429007

No, it hasn't returned... read *everything* Griffin said. He is *not*
committing to do an HST mission; all he has committed to do (quite rightly,
IMO) is to re-examine the decision after return-to-flight. The decision to
start advance work on the mission *now* was based on two things: first, the
latest delay in return-to-flight means that if NASA waits until after
return-to-flight to start working on the mission, they won't be ready to
fly in time to save HST. Second, Congress earmarked $291 million in NASA's
FY05 budget for HST servicing, and Griffin doesn't want to get into trouble
by not spending it before the fiscal year is out.

> That should cause some interesting remarks on the part
> of the CAIB recommendation team, which meets for the last time on
> Monday IIRC.

You're confusing CAIB with RTFTG (aka Stafford-Covey). The CAIB disbanded
in 2003 after publishing their report. It's RTFTG that will issue the final
"report card" on how well NASA is complying with the CAIB recommendations.

The HST work has no bearing on RTF at all; Griffin has said all the work
will be at GSFC, and not involving personnel also working RTF.

The CAIB generally supports a shuttle HST servicing mission. Privately,
many of them are quite annoyed at O'Keefe for repeatedly blaming the CAIB
recommendations for the cancellation of HST SM-04, when in fact they
intended no such thing.

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