Author Topic: STS-120 FRR for October 23 launch date (Read 27711 times)

Peter NASA · « **Reply #60 on:** 10/17/2007 02:37 am »

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jmjawors - 16/10/2007 9:29 PM
And bringing out the NESC guy was a great PAO move (I'll credit them, why not?)

Well, why not, because PAO don't have any role in telling someone to attend the breifings to the media. It is down to the individuals.

Norm Hartnett · « **Reply #61 on:** 10/17/2007 02:39 am »

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rdale - 16/10/2007 7:21 PM

I don't think it matters. The only way the public will care about this issue is if the panels fail during reentry and we lose the orbiter. Otherwise, just like the tile issue, it gets some page 6 billing and hype from certain writers, and passes. The best analogies in the world won't stop her from writing a doom-n-gloom story.

Maybe, maybe not, but doesn’t it make sense to give your management the best tools to attempt to defuse the doom-n-gloom before it starts? Isn’t it wise to give guys like Bill Harwood the ammunition to write good stories to counter the bad? If you assume that the public doesn’t care and make no effort to engage them aren’t you guaranteeing that they won’t care in the future?

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #62 on:** 10/17/2007 02:46 am »

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Norm Hartnett - 17/10/2007 3:39 AM
Isn’t it wise to give guys like Bill Harwood the ammunition to write good stories to counter the bad?

If you're talking about the general public then it's the wire reporters you need to aim at....not anyone else. Only the wire services are mass syndicated and are read by the most amount of general public.

No one has the power of the wire services.

Norm Hartnett · « **Reply #63 on:** 10/17/2007 02:49 am »

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Chris Bergin - 16/10/2007 7:46 PM
If you're talking about the general public then it's the wire reporters you need to aim at....not anyone else. Only the wire services are mass syndicated and are read by the most amount of general public.

No one has the power of the wire services.

CBS has a pretty big voice.

Stowbridge · « **Reply #64 on:** 10/17/2007 03:01 am »

AP is syndicated to 1000s of major news sites, such as every local newspaper and TV network site. It's a monster.

An amussing twist, guess who's dominating google news,
http://news.google.com/news?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=STS-120&btnG=Search

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #65 on:** 10/17/2007 03:04 am »

Nice :cool: Although I wish they would allow RSS to update the story when we do. That's the old headline.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #66 on:** 10/17/2007 03:56 am »

What we'll be doing is going back to the live launch processing thread up to the start of S0007 this weekend.

I'll likely be writing several more STS-120 FRR related articles (one more from the two day FRR last week, as there's still some very interesting stuff to get out) and at least a couple of the very large and super duper SOMD FRR presentations we got on L2 today (from today's FRR) - and I'll mix in latest processing news into those articles.

"No sleep 'till wheel stop"

Zoomer30 · « **Reply #67 on:** 10/18/2007 06:04 am »

Discovery has quite a few flights left, seems like a shaky issue when the team was split on whether they needed to fix the 2 panels this time. Every time I hear the words "acceptable flight risk" is just makes me worry. After Columbia I would think there would be very few risks that would be acceptable when talking about RCC health.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #68 on:** 10/18/2007 06:39 am »

Read the thread I've merged it to and the following articles I'll write. The concern was based on worst case assumptions at best.

Analyst · « **Reply #69 on:** 10/18/2007 07:43 am »

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Zoomer30 - 18/10/2007 8:04 AM

Every time I hear the words "acceptable flight risk" is just makes me worry. After Columbia I would think there would be very few risks that would be acceptable when talking about RCC health.

You wouldn't flying if you don't accept risks. You wouldn't do anything at all in life. You would be truely dead.

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psloss · « **Reply #70 on:** 10/18/2007 10:16 am »

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Analyst - 18/10/2007 3:43 AM

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Zoomer30 - 18/10/2007 8:04 AM

Every time I hear the words "acceptable flight risk" is just makes me worry. After Columbia I would think there would be very few risks that would be acceptable when talking about RCC health.

You wouldn't flying if you don't accept risks. You wouldn't do anything at all in life. You would be truely dead.

At the post FRR press briefing, Wayne Hale made a point of saying (and I'm paraphrasing) "the risk is acceptable to fly...notice I didn't say it was 'safe'".