NASA has no luck finding glitch

Published: Jul 19, 2005
Source: www.cnn.com



KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) -- Five days of meticulous detective work by NASA engineers have failed to turn up the cause of a fuel sensor malfunction on the space shuttle Discovery, which is still sitting on its launch pad as precious days tick away toward a July 31 launch deadline.

NASA officials are looking at next week as the earliest possible launch date.

"It's difficult to find a glitch that won't stay glitched," said Bill Parsons, the space shuttle program manager, at a news conference Monday evening.

To help find the malfunction, NASA has brought out of retirement an engineer who designed part of the sensor system back in the 1970s, said Wayne Hale, deputy shuttle program manager.continue..