Michael Kostelnik Earliest Quotations

Early debris, early in the flight path, would be critical because that material would obviously be near the start of the events, ... It would clearly be very important to see the material earliest in the sequence.

But it should be clearly understood that this is a 'not earlier than' date, which gives us the earliest opportunity we can bring all of the processing elements together and have a credible window to get to the international space station.