STS-114: Discovery Post MMT Press Conference

Abstract

Bruce Buckingham, NASA Public Affairs hosted this conference. Bill Parsons, Space Shuttle Program Manager; John Muratore, Shuttle System and Integration Manager; Mike Wetmore, Shuttle Processing Director were present. The Panel summarizes that thorough effort of analysis and test techniques and great amount of work is being done to fix the sensor problem and will be ready to call the stations for a launch countdown process after the trouble shooting is fully completed. Launch time, grounding problem, sensor failure, trouble shooting, tanking test, pin swap, and heaters were topics covered with the News media. For clarification, Bruce Buckingham provided information that preferred launch time is at 10:39am on July 26, Eastern Time.