Re: Shuttle launch delayed until July



Jorge R. Frank wrote:

How would you like to be a Shuttle astronaut and have to rely on this caliber of information in regards to how ready for flight your spacecraft is?



Do you really think astronauts rely on PAO press releases for information?



No, I'm sure they figured that one out decades ago...but it is symptomatic of what's wrong here... they _should_ be able to count on what the PAO says, because it should be the straightforward unvarnished truth about what is going on, not propaganda like the Soviet space program used to engage in.
The fact that it isn't is what happens when funding concerns and swollen agency bureaucracy replaces engineering and exploration.

Pat
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