Wayne Hale Discovery Quotations

We have released Discovery to reenter, ... We have decided not to take any action on the thermal blanket because we have determined it is a negligible risk at this time.

None of the things I showed you are satisfactory. The good news is that the orbiter Discovery appears to be in good shape.

None of the things I showed you are satisfactory, ... The good news is that the orbiter Discovery appears to be in good shape.

If we had a catastrophic failure with Discovery, we'd need to figure out how to prevent that same problem from occurring on Atlantis.

We have cleared Discovery to re-enter and we have decided not to take any action on the thermal blanket because we think that it represents negligible concern at this time.

The thing that's going to pace getting Discovery off the ground is not the work we're doing at the Kennedy Space Center. It is the engineering analysis and tests that go toward proving what we have assembled is safe to fly.