There are risks in spaceflight.
"N. Wayne Hale Jr." is a former NASA engineer. Previously a flight director and space shuttle program manager, Hale served as NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Strategic Partnerships prior to his retirement on July 31, 2010.
Born in Clovis, New Mexico, Hale earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University in 1976, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1978.
More Wayne Hale on Wikipedia.We have looked at that and it is a doable thing but the margins are small, ... It's better to have a plan, than to not have one.
We have released Discovery to reenter, ... We have decided not to take any action on the thermal blanket because we have determined it is a negligible risk at this time.
That people have thought about, worried about.
Thousands of man hours [were spent] in developing new techniques so that foam in part and other components of the flight vehicle do not come loose during supersonic flight in the atmosphere as the orbiter climbs to orbit.
That tank we have to do a number of things to, at the minimum removing and replacing the PAL ramps, re-working the bipod closeout area where we think the wire may have actually allowed cryogenic ingestion of air to condense in an area, ... We have a number of things that we've got to do before we're ready to do that work.
It's been an outstandingly successful mission, ... We accomplished everything that we set out to do and more.
We have declared that the thermal protection system [is] not suspect.
None of the things I showed you are satisfactory, ... The good news is that the orbiter Discovery appears to be in good shape.
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