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...according to this article from Spaceflightnow.com. The foam debris problem still has NASA engineers puzzled.
Given the scathing evaluation in the final Return to Flight report, though, the problems may be more than they can realistically fix. The most damaging thing the committee cited, other than the overall culture at NASA, is that far too often "best-effort" was taken to be equal to "fixed the problem," but when it comes to extremely complicated things like the Shuttle 'close enough for Government work' is enough to cause catastrophe.
On the good news side, the Shuttle is scheduled to start its flight back to Cape Canaveral tomorrow around 6 AM PST.
Given the scathing evaluation in the final Return to Flight report, though, the problems may be more than they can realistically fix. The most damaging thing the committee cited, other than the overall culture at NASA, is that far too often "best-effort" was taken to be equal to "fixed the problem," but when it comes to extremely complicated things like the Shuttle 'close enough for Government work' is enough to cause catastrophe.
On the good news side, the Shuttle is scheduled to start its flight back to Cape Canaveral tomorrow around 6 AM PST.
