Shuttle News: February 2005 Archives

- NASA Nearly Set to Resume Shuttle Flights, NY Times
- Discovery launch a step closer, Houston Chronicle
- NASA plans Discovery launch May 15, CNN

Editor's note: the senders and recipients have been deleted from this email exchange.

Comment from someone@nasa.gov familiar with this topic with regard to this email exchange: "we are 12 weeks or so from launch and we still do not know how we'll conduct these surveys on-orbit."

- STS-116: The Compability Review will be held on 22 February.
- STS-117: Manifesting of FDRD will slip by 2 weeks to 31 March, but the Compatibility and Cargo Integration Reviews will only slip by1 week.
- STS-118: There are some problems with ESP-3:the Interface Control Document normally takes7 months totranslate payloadrequirementsinto orbiter interfaces to support payload requirements. An attempt will be made to try to do it in 5 months.

Critics Question NASA on Safety of the Shuttles, NY Times

"The documents were provided by workers at NASA who refused to be quoted by name, saying they feared retribution. A copy of a July 15 PowerPoint presentation by a team working through the tile issues described numerous problems with the putty, which is made of two compounds taken to space and blended by the "goo gun" before application."