NASA plans to bounce back by autumn
Nasa is making plans to return the space shuttle to orbit as early has the autumn and has instructed engineers to be prepared to make any “corrective actions” recommended by the board now investigating the Columbia tragedy.
William Readdy, Nasa’s associate administrator for space flight, issued a memo this week instructing agency officials to organise a team to plan for quickly making changes in the space shuttle – or its operations – so that the craft would be quickly ready to fly.
