NASA
Is the late, great, lavishly funded, organisation showing signs of decay?
Launch postponements are begining to raise eyebrows. First off, dont schedule a launch if you are not ready. From the events of the last two weeks, my guess is that NASA is never going to be ready.
Dont they check equipment before moving it to the launch site? Evidently fuel cells and fuel tank sensors are immune from equipment checks.
So where are we now? We have fuel cells that dont work and no one knows why. We have fuel tank sensors that are evidently unrepairalbe because as I recall it was fuel sensors that delayed the last launch. We have glue that no longer works to keep insulation from falling off fuel tanks or tiles from falling off the shuttle. We have a space program that is suceptible to lightning, supidity, poor planing, and may soon loose funding as a result of loosing confidence.
Ask yourself, would you fly on a plane maintained by todays version of NASA? Neither would I.