Kyle Herring Quotations

We've already booked five to seven days for those activities if we decide they are necessary. We can accomplish any additional work and still meet the schedule we've laid out for July 1.

We're going to err on the side of caution. We're going to run this thing to ground and make sure we understand it.

He made it clear that those are working dates.

It certainly made sense to do that. The biggest benefit is launch probability, and that's what we want.

I think that May would be the earliest, based on two hurricanes that not only caused damage at some of the facilities but also displaced the work force,

We think that it is safe to fly as is, but we have the opportunity to change out one of the boxes and reduce the risk, so we?re taking the opportunity to do that.

The program hasn't heard the full story. It's very premature to indicate that we're going to do anything with this right now.

The work force is the first and foremost priority -- making sure that they are safe, and that they are taken care of. At the same time, a lot of those people who are affected are also motivated to get back to the business of flying space flights,

The teams are now looking at all the data to determine what may have caused the inadvertent alarms that woke up the crew.

They had a valve misconfigured between the air lock and space station.

It's a problem that has been around for years. It's probably of greater interest now because we're getting ready to fly.

It's a problem that has been around for years.

It's like your car. If you open up your engine to try to find a small problem, you might create some others.

Doing a late inspection is one of the ways that you increase the likelihood that you have a clean vehicle. It's the length of time in space that drives up the risk of impacts.

Even with the devastation to their lives, it's been kind of remarkable that they have stepped up and are back at work and are trying to balance that with their own personal issues,

It was a fairly long and tedious process.

That's due to the amount of fuel the 747 can take on due to the heavy orbiter on its back.

The consensus was we have a pristine box, so let?s buy down the risk even further by changing out the box.