RTF update, NASA Press Conference

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http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4068 if you want a summary.<br /><br />There's a link to a full 'quote sheet' as such, on the bottom of that page.<br /><br />Hale nearly pulled a Paul Hill on one of the last questions about the launch date <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

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Related stories:<br /><br />Engineers Find Cracks in Shuttle Fuel Tank Foam<br />space.com<br />http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/051122_rtf_shuttle_updt.html<br /><br /><br />Cause of Discovery fuel tank foam loss still unresolved<br />Spaceflight Now<br />http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts121/051122update/

 

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<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Hale nearly pulled a Paul Hill on one of the last questions about the launch date<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />I read that. It cracked me up. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> Good for him, putting the journalists in their place. There really is such a thing as a dumb question. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

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Yeah, remember that Paul Hill incident! That was amazing and so refreshing.<br /><br />It's also a well remembered happy memory for the NASA people at JSC. Spoke to a woman who does the PR for the Flight Controllers at JSC and it was like we both remembered some of the main parts of his dressing down of the BBC journalist (there's actually a thread on here too where we all started to say "He's getting angry!!!" <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />