We're still going to be able to accomplish our goals for a good station configuration for shuttle retirement. In our schedule and planning we assumed that we'd have some shuttle problems along the way.
William Gerstenmaier
It's great that our Russian partners are here to help us during this time. It would never have occurred without the tragedy of Columbia. So out of that tragedy has come a remarkable relationship between our two countries and our two space programs.
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The question is, what is the work force ready to do.
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There's lots of options being investigated. We're not really sure where things are right now.
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We're 'go' for the crew exchange and 'go' to continue flying to the space station.
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It looks like it's going to be very unlikely that we're going to be able to just remove the.. Ramp and fly.
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We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.
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We're in the process of evaluating it.
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It's really too difficult to predict.
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We think that's the best thing to do, just take it off. I think we ought not to think about May right now.
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