Thursday, September 01, 2005

Standing Down for Now

We have been put on stand-down status while we work through some concerns from the NASA flight safety office. We hope to have a clear direction for the status of the test flight by the end of next week.

After going through heroic efforts to ship the balloon on time, it is a little disheartening to have this happen. I had an interesting morning today. I left the house at 7:15 for a 10:00 flight to Albuquerque. As the flight was boarding, I got a call from the boss saying we were getting the stand-down order. I had to get my bag taken off the plane. If I had gotten the call fifteen minutes later, I would have gone all the way to Albuquerque just to turn around and come home.

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