Richard Covey Quotations

On many occasions, we observed weak understanding of basic program management and systems engineering principles, an abandonment of traditional processes, and a lack of rigor in execution.

There are no show stoppers that we've seen out there, ... The issue that may come up is the degree to which feasible repair techniques are available on this mission.

We don't see anything out there that we have big questions about, that are not the same questions that the program is looking at,

Those observations stand on their own. We're not going to comment on those.

At this point, we don't see anything that is such a poke-out for the program that they can't overcome it in that time frame.

Everybody's going to have a different perspective. If you watch sausage being made, it's not always pretty and some people are going to find it uglier than others. I personally did not find the process, as it played out, unusual.

Is there something else that is going to occur in a time frame that makes sense that we would wait to fly for?