CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight June 4, 2024 02:36:00
One would have to interrupt the mission to get the right lighting, to make sure you're over, the right satellite is in position. and then now you have an army of people on the ground. we have to reorient the shuttle for the proper exposure angles and all that. and to do that means they may have to terminate their science experiments. in a program manager's mind, that's responsible for getting shuttles up there on schedule, if you interrupt the science mission, you have the ire of all the people and the science objectives were now ruined. and that looks badly on nasa. -a little bit later in the...