NASA Hit Harder Than First Thought By Hurricane Katrina
No shuttle flights for a year? That’s what an internal memo that NASA sent out this week makes things sound like. A planning document written by Wayne Hale, NASA?s deputy shuttle program manager, supports this theory: ?Launch dates before the fall of 2006 may not be credible.” Once again NASA is plagued with problems.
As NASA continues to assess the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the future of the shuttle program, at least one official is warning it could take up to a year before the next flight takes off. Beyond the highly-visible impacts of damaged facilities and scattered workers, new delays entirely unrelated to the hurricane damage have also come to light. Solutions to the foam shedding problem are going to take a lot more time than space workers had initially hoped.
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