The work force is the first and foremost priority -- making sure that they are safe, and that they are taken care of. At the same time, a lot of those people who are affected are also motivated to get back to the business of flying space flights.

Until we review all [mission] anomalies, we won't launch another shuttle.

It was a fairly long and tedious process.

He made it clear that those are working dates.

I think that May would be the earliest, based on two hurricanes that not only caused damage at some of the facilities but also displaced the work force.

They had a valve misconfigured between the air lock and space station.