NASA engineers - practicing what I can only assume is some kind of postmodern approach to their discipline - admitted that they have learned a lot about the systems on the shuttle in the past few weeks since the faulty sensor caused a launch delay.
NASA workers rewired some of the sensors and made other electrical repairs after the failure, and Nickolenko said that after extensive troubleshooting, “I think we’re smarter in understanding exactly what we have.”
The plane is 30 years old and they are just learning "what they have?" Didn’t they read the frickin’ manual? Don’t they have some… I dunno… like, "as-built" drawings? Glad I’m not riding in that unit.
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It is probably fair to say that Shuttle is a 30 year old frame rebuilt after each flight, not a 30 year old frame. And the ET (where this fault is) is brand spankin’ new.
But you have a point.
Yes, well… I’m just saying…