After questionable weather, officials give the all clear for the SpaceX launch
Carol Scott helped NASA assess what went wrong — and heal from — two tragic accidents during the Space Shuttle program.
But these days, she's the manager of the Launch Vehicle Office of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program — and that means she and her team were essential in determining that SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule is ready for this mission and that the unavoidable risks were mitigated."I'm not sleeping right, because I've got enough anxiety going on," she joked during an interview with CNN Business on Tuesday."But if I didn't have butterflies, that would not be right.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule is unique: The company handled design and development, though NASA still provides critical safety oversight. Scott's team numbered in the thousands when she worked on the Space Shuttle program. But her team now numbers in the hundreds.The [SpaceX] system is definitely much safer than the Shuttle — for lots of reasons."
For one thing, the Shuttle required astronauts to strap into the giant white spaceplane, which was vertically attached to rocket boosters on the launch pad. But for this mission, the astronauts will sit tight in the Crew Dragon capsule, which sits atop one large rocket. With the Space Shuttle,"a piece of foam came off and hit the orbiter," causing the catastrophic destruction of the Columbia orbiter in 2003.share with Facebook
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