Re: Shuttle postponement: What am I missing?


"Derek Lyons" <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Brian Thorn <bthorn64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I do wonder if NASA shouldn't be more creative in protecting the
schedule and 2010 drop dead date. For example, move STS-125 (Hubble)
to early 2009, by which time hopefully ET manufacturing will be up to
speed. In the meantime, they can fly STS-126 in August, STS-119 in
October and STS-127 in early December, since they have long LON lead
times via ISS Safe Haven and NASA won't need to have two ETs ready
more or less simultaneously (which is the main reason for the six week
slip of STS-125). I'd wager they could buy back the entire 6 week
delay just by moving STS-125 into 2009. Hubble has its second wind, it
should make it a half year longer.

Assuming of course that the cargoes for those flights will be ready,
and crew training, and the Orbiters themselves....

Schedule chicken has been the name of the game since rockets first started
flying. You didn't want *your* team to be blamed for a launch delay, so you
wait for someone else to call the delay first. When they call the delay,
you breathe a sigh of relief and quickly fix your problems.

The US did this with ISS. We repeatedly pointed the finger at delays caused
by the Russians, but used the extra time to fix numerous problems that would
have been much bigger problems if they'd been found in LEO rather than on
the ground.

Jeff
--
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein


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