STS-114 Mission Update Thread (Part 4)

[jaredgalen]

From a lay person point of view, this is a great news conference. <br /><br />This guy is great. Sorry, missed his name.

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Paul Hill's getting slightly angry with the continued debris questions. "If you ask me any more follow ups on this, but you'd be wasting your time."<br /><br />And now the BBC are pushing their luck on the next question!

 

[tap_sa]

One more tile question and that guy blows a gasket <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" />

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Major slapdown by Paul "Bruiser" Hill. Loving it!<br /><br /> />"I warned you that you'll be frustrated if you ask me any more on this, I've told you every damn thing I know." <

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Damn, this is awesome. I'm so going to quote him here. He's on a major slapdown!! Never know a NASA official so angry!

 

[jaredgalen]

HAH!! This is deadly. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[tap_sa]

LMAO that guy ROCKS, bring him to every press conf from now on!!! <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" />

 

[shuttle_rtf]

NO MORE QUESTIONS ON DEBRIS. He's going to blow here!!! <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[shuttle_rtf]

I'll transcribe a quote sheet from this, cause that was amazing. He went off on a four minute tirad and killed the BBC journo stone dead with a brilliant slapdown. Awesome, truely awesome.

 

[haywood]

Wow!<br />Did he ever give that guy from the BBC a dressing down.<br />And deservedly so.<br />I'm surprised he didn't reach thru the microphone and boff him one.<br />Stupid, stupid reporter.<br /><br />I agree SRTF...awesome!<br /><br /><br />

 

[erauskydiver]

I think Wayne Hale detected an impending murder if he didnt step in and take over, lol!!

 

[thepaul]

Who is this guy giving the smack down? I missed the introduction.

 

[tap_sa]

Was Hale supposed to come to this event or did they alert him to cool things down <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[thepaul]

HEHE!

 

[redgryphon]

Now Wayne has come down to take some of the heat off Paul.

 

[thepaul]

I thought Paul was the one giving the heat! <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[llivinglarge]

YAY! Pretty pictures coming soon!

 

[Testing]

Please get us a transcript RTF, I don't have audio here, Mute PC technology. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Just recording it to my digi recorder, then I'll transcribe. Post on the two forums, and do a story afterwards. <br /><br />Paul Hill for President.

 

[redgryphon]

It will be a long transcript! Hill talked very fast for a long time. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br />It was a bizarre question from the BBC guy. He seemed to be suggesting NASA had played up the chip yesterday and was now downplaying it. I saw the briefings yesterday, and Shannon was very calm and careful about it. So many of the media questions in this last briefing were really ones for the MMT, not for a Flight Director that had been working with the crew on the tedious survey all day.

 

[Testing]

I caught the brief late last night and they were repeating 1.5" to about 12 different reporters and don't know means don't know, I have told you all I know, lets wait for the data. On the radio here in LA I here three times on the way too work a tile sheared off. Effing idiot reporters. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jaredgalen]

Cripes, size of the feed that is being downlinked must be huge. We're just getting a downsampled feed. The full resolution video of the all todays ops would have to be enormous.<br /><br />Somebody mentioned here they personally had two gigs from the launch feed alone yesterday. <br />Any guesses on the full size? <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[nacnud]

Well if it is in full broadcast HDTV the bit rate is 1.4Gb/s and I susspect the video is higher than than from many cameras.<br /><br />To paraphrase, it's big, very big you may think a DVD is big but its nothing compared to this.

 

[Testing]

Ku antenna bandwirth times seven hours. I can't think in those size terms. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[shuttle_rtf]

Here's draft 1 of what Paul said: (I chopped out some babbling and errrs etc, and a couple of things I couldn't make out as he got faster with anger he he.)<br /><br />BBC: Q) " I'm a little bit confused - I'm not an expert by any stretch on this - (but) last night it seemed the chipped tile was a significant issue, and today, Paul, it seems like NASA is trying to play this down. <br /><br />"Now, I don't understand why this is not seen as a big issue this morning. You said that the engineering community - that their judgement is that they haven't reached a decision on whether or not to seek more data on this. I don't understand why this is. When these shuttles return to earth and you've done an inspection, have they had the kinda damage to the same area this has apparently occurred near the nose - or the landing gear I should say. <br /><br />"And I want to ask if you've made a decision to repair this damaged tile, or it way to premature to talk about repair? <br /><br />Paul Hill: A) "You know I warned you that you're going to get frustrated if you ask me for more information, not because I'm trying to be evasive, but I've told you every damn thing I know. Answering the last part (of the question). <br /><br />"We are not prepared to say if it needs a repair, we're not prepared to say it does need a repair, but what we are prepared to say is. The experts - like the smart people like Dan Bell - can look at the data and then tell us - based on flight experience, based on the level of damage we already know we've landed with and what we know we can land with, that's the process. <br /><br />"Some of those folks early judgement was that the damage looked like it wasn't going to be a significant issue, and that in no way means they are going to say that it doesn't need to be repaired, or it does need to be repaired, or it does need additional data or doesn't need additional data. <br /><br />"It means the judgement of the folks that do this for a living and have quantified tile dama