PAO Snarkiness at JSC

16 Days in Space and ??? To Get Home, Free Space, Discovery News

“I got curious about how the weather actually turned out on Dec. 1, the day the shuttle likely would have landed if a 24-hour delay had been ordered. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one, because Bill Johnson, the news chief at KSC, had the report on the ready: North to northwest winds up to 10 knots. Visibility: Unlimited. In other words, a good day for landing. The response from JSC was not so warm. “Wow, you’re the weather forecaster now,” sneered one public affairs officer whom I’ll not name on the condition that he promise to refrain from using sarcasm in the future when responding to uncomfortable questions like, “Why didn’t NASA wait a day to see if the weather in Florida got better?”