We all hope Discovery makes a safe return to Earth and never leaves again
July 31, 2005 Unpleasant Discoveries About the Shuttle By Steve Chapman NASA's deliberations about when to resume flights by the space shuttle bring to mind the New Yorker cartoon of an executive on the phone, looking at his calendar and saying, "How about never? Does never work for you?" After spending two and a half years and huge amounts of money to prevent a recurrence of the problem that destroyed the last shuttle, the agency now finds the problem has recurred. If NASA takes appropriate... Sign in to see full entry.