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Return to flight schedule
I've read a lot of people treating NASA's Return to Flight schedule as a
sick joke at best. I'd like to remind everyone that someone once went to speak to the Experimental Test Pilot's Association, and less than a year and a half after a major NASA disaster had to give a speech about what NASA would accomplish in the next year. That man felt so uncertain about the NASA timelines he held in his hands that he hedged his bets and failed to tell this assemblage what NASA was already advertising. Even though he, himself, would end up playing a critical role in the events of the following year. I'm speaking, of course, of Mike Collins, who spoke to the Experimental Test Pilot's Association in September, 1968. The NASA documents he held in his hands indicated preliminary planning for CSM-107 to orbit the moon while LM-5 landed on it, in July, 1969. He thought that timeline was outrageously optimistic, so he refused to quote it. As we all know, it came to pass exactly as written. So, don't underestimate the ability of determined people to accomplish goals that seem outrageously optimistic. It's happened before. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for | Doug Van Dorn thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup | |
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