Quotes by Richard Covey

“At this point, we dont see anything that is such a poke-out for the program that they cant overcome it in that time frame.”

“We dont see anything out there that we have big questions about, that are not the same questions that the program is looking at,”

“Is there something else that is going to occur in a time frame that makes sense that we would wait to fly for?”

“would probably be happy with that approach.”

“Those observations stand on their own. Were not going to comment on those.”

“Everybodys going to have a different perspective. If you watch sausage being made, its not always pretty and some people are going to find it uglier than others. I personally did not find the process, as it played out, unusual.”

“Oh, yeah, Id fly in a heartbeat,”

“On many occasions, we observed weak understanding of basic program management and systems engineering principles, an abandonment of traditional processes, and a lack of rigor in execution.”

“There are no show stoppers that weve seen out there, ... The issue that may come up is the degree to which feasible repair techniques are available on this mission.”