Bill Parsons Quotations

I think anytime you have big gaps in between doing something that's like launching shuttles ... or things like that, you are always concerned that you've lost a little bit of your edge.

Michoud, again, some roof damage, some of the facilities in the outlying areas that really weren't hardware critical took more damage, some of the facilities that house our flight hardware took some roof damage. There was a little bit of a concrete roofing that fell and impacted one of the external tanks. We haven't been able to evaluate that yet, it's still ongoing. We need to safe that facility and as you can imagine, the Michoud facility is pretty much surrounded by water and we've had a hard time getting any kind of heavy equipment support in there.

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Today, we honored the Columbia crew. We brought Discovery home safely. You want to know how I feel? I feel fantastic. It's good to be us today.

Today we honored the Columbia crew. We brought Discovery home safely. It's a great day.

You can't just watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I have seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable.

This is the safest vehicle we've ever flown.

They recommended to me ... that we proceed on with the launch. I accepted that recommendation. And that's where we are headed now.