We are going to be pretty darn happy to get to wheels stop and see this good crew step off Discovery. We all are going to feel a huge sense of accomplishment having gotten through the last 2 1/2 years and demonstrated that we still know how to do this very difficult and dangerous business.
"Paul Hill" is the name of:
* Paul Hill (musician) (19341999), American music director, founder of the Master Chorale of Washington (formerly the Paul Hill Chorale)
* Paul Jennings Hill (19542003), murderer of abortion provider John Britton
* Paul Hill (Guildford Four) (born 1954) Northern Irishman convicted and later cleared of terrorist offences
* Paul Hill (flight director) (born 1962), American flight director for NASA Mission Control Center
* Paul Andrew Raymond Clegg-Hill (born 1979), heir apparent to the British title of Viscount Hill
More Paul Hill on Wikipedia.De-orbit is not a risk-free activity. We will be pretty darned happy to get to wheelstop and see this good crew step off Discovery.
De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. Our big risk now, aside from the inherent risk of de-orbiting through a fireball, would be weather.
There haven't been many days in the last 2 1/2 years that I came in to work and wasn't thinking about them at some point or another.
During de-orbit, I'm sure I'll have a thought or two about Rick Husband and his crew. At wheel stop, I'm sure all of us are going to think a lot about the 107 crew.
De-orbit is not perfectly risk-free, but the vehicle is in pristine condition. It's all downhill from a certain perspective.
It'll be a huge sense of accomplishment having gotten through the last two years and demonstrated that we still know how to do this very difficult and dangerous business.
Today was a busy day inside Discovery and the station. Everyone was involved in one form of transfer or another.
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