Shuttle schedule.

[qso1]

In a thread called "What IS happening to NASA?" I made the following observation about the shuttle schedule on April 18th of this year:<br /><br />"Each time there has been a delay or disaster in shuttle flights. A certain pattern emerges as to reflight. NASA annonces a launch date a year in advance. When they get within six months, it slips a few months. As the new data approaches, the date slips are measured in weeks, then days...and finally launch so the best thing to do is have patience. The shuttle will never be the machine everyone would like it to be. Fly the remaining missions and then retire it."<br /><br />The shuttle schedule was "As expected" and demonstrated by todays launch. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>