On Mar 20, 8:38 pm, Joe Strout wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
Well, if nothing else, it's showing the on-time launch reliability
demonstrated by the Shuttle in a privately funded booster.

To be fair, they said right up front that multiple aborts were likely,
given the extremely numerous (and probably erring on the side of
paranoid) safety checks added since last year.

To be fair, "numerous safety checks" and "probably erring on the side
of paranoid" are precisely the reason that the shuttle launches get
pushed back.

If you are going to be cautious, sometimes you will stop a launch.

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