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NASA Fly-When-Ready Policy Dovetails With Congressional Move To Drop Deadline For Ceasing to Operate Space Shuttles

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Monday, March 30th, 2009

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NASA will fly each space shuttle mission only when it's ready to fly safely, an approach that dovetails with a pending congressional plan saying the space shuttle fleet doesn't necessarily have to complete all scheduled missions by a Sept. 30, 2010, deadline. The space agency will "do each mission" individually, with full concern that no safety problems loom, Bill Gerstenmaier, associate NASA administrator for space operations, said in a news briefing Saturday evening. "We're not going to do anything dumb"…

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