On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:57:50 GMT, Dave S
wrote:



S. wrote:


Why so much redundancy ? ; the cost of scrubbing the launch must have been
enormous.

As is the percieved cost of another failure. Nobody wants to be the one
who says "Go" and then something bad happens.

Exactly. If there is another shuttle disaster, the program may not
ever recover.