Bill Readdy -- Conspicuous by His Absence

In the past several NASA news conferences, the man who reportedly will
issue the 'go' for launch tomorrow has not been available to take
reporters questions. Instead, they've had Wayne Hale and his ECO show
'n tell, with Griffen saying he hopes the problem reoccurs before
launch.

Who's in charge? Why didn't Readdy (Associate Administrator for Space
Flight) call for a WCDT and a FRF months ago? He's been around long
enough to know what it takes to launch after this sort of a standdown.

It looks like Griffen just wants to make sure Lockheed's tank-mod
snafus get ironed out for the first launch of his unmanned heavy
lifter. No honorable man in his right mind would use a crewed launch
for that purpose.

Challenger's Ghost

The Houston Chronicle recently quoted NASA's Deputy Administrator, Fred
Gregory, on the Bush/Griffen shuttle transformation (to "exploration"):

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3252489

As I read it, Fred currently talks and advocates a 'fast and loose'
approach to putting men and women in space (as long as he's sitting in
Mission Control or NASA Headquarters, and not in the cockpit):

"We've got to do dangerous things," Gregory said. "We've got to take
risks."

Challenger's Ghost

" wrote in message
ups.com...
In the past several NASA news conferences, the man who reportedly will
issue the 'go' for launch tomorrow has not been available to take
reporters questions. Instead, they've had Wayne Hale and his ECO show
'n tell, with Griffen saying he hopes the problem reoccurs before
launch.

Who's in charge? Why didn't Readdy (Associate Administrator for Space
Flight) call for a WCDT and a FRF months ago? He's been around long
enough to know what it takes to launch after this sort of a standdown.

It looks like Griffen just wants to make sure Lockheed's tank-mod
snafus get ironed out for the first launch of his unmanned heavy
lifter. No honorable man in his right mind would use a crewed launch
for that purpose.

Challenger's Ghost


Tell me, if a different person collected your garbage one week, would you
assume some conspiracy at the dump?

Brian

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Brian Gaff wrote:

Tell me, if a different person collected your garbage one week, would you
assume some conspiracy at the dump?

Since most of us here have no garbage collection, I would assume that a
neighbor felt sorry for me. Many of them have hungry cats, who
frequently get to mine before I have a chance to dispose of it.

Challenger's Ghost

Michael Gardner wrote:
In article . com,
" wrote:

what?

You heard me. These cats have elegant breeding: 25% alley, 25% bob, 25%
'coon, and 25% 'possum. Apparently you've never seen a 'coon tip over a
non-hermetically sealed trash can. What's worse, some of the older
folks feel sorry for the cats and loosen the lids. I think some of that
is from too many years on the farm before retirement, but some of it is
just to get even with the people who run the retirement complex.

Challenger's Ghost

Brian Gaff wrote:

Tell me, if a different person collected your garbage one week, would you
assume some conspiracy at the dump?

dude, that was *wicked*


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