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Shuttle Managers Take Stock After Floyd
By Glen Golightly
Houston Bureau Chief
posted: 12:31 pm ET
15 September 1999
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Shuttle HOUSTON As Hurricane Floyd moves up and away from Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle managers are gearing up to reassess mission plans. For now, no changes have been announced for the tentative launch dates of Discovery on Oct. 28 and Endeavour on Nov. 19. "Later this week the managers will meet and assess where we are," said NASA spokesman James Hartsfield. But crews were prevented from conducting wiring inspections and repairs for several days this week as they prepared the shuttles and buildings for a possible hurricane strike. Crews should begin returning to the space center in the next few days. As a result, Thursdays scheduled meeting to assess the inspections and repairs to the orbiters may be postponed until later in the week, Hartsfield said. Before the storm, crews had been concentrating on the wiring in shuttles Endeavour and Discovery. Work had also just begun on Atlantis. Columbia will be inspected during a refurbishment at a Boeing Co. facility in Palmdale, Calif. All of the shuttles' wiring systems are being inspected and repaired after an electrical short knocked out two engine controllers on Columbia during its launch in July.
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