NASA didn't even do a formal risk analysis

[alfredo]

before scrapping the Hubble repair mission.

As Gregory told Congress, "Administrator O'Keefe made a very conscious, deliberate and well-informed decision that the shuttle would not service the Hubble."

When asked by Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., chairman of the science committee, and Vernon Ehlers, R-Mich., for a copy of that risk analysis report, Gregory agreed to provide it.

Yet, one day later, NASA historian Steve n Dick gave a presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington, in which he described the process by which that decision was made and revealed that, in fact, no formal risk analysis had been completed.




This administration lies about everything.

I think what it is, the pentagon has the shuttle tied up in bush's drive to have dominion, not just on earth, but in space.

[elperromagico]

1. What about New Horizons?

How's that workin' out?

[alfredo]

4. Just what is

New Horizons?

[elperromagico]

5. Bush's plan for a mission to Pluto.

[alfredo]

6. Thanks. I forgot about talk of a Pluto

mission.t I just haven't been paying attention to the space program the past few years.

[pnorman]

2. O'Keefe was appointed by Bush in 2001.

When the Columbia disaster took place, I recall reading here on DU that he was Cheney's choice. His "bean counter" administrative style was linked to that tragedy. I'll try to do a web-search, but perhaps someone else here recalls some of the details.

pnorman

[Wilms]

3. Slipped in and slipped out.

He's under investigation currently for expense account abuse, blah, blah. But I'm wondering what more of his legacy there is.