{"id":810,"date":"2003-02-23T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2003\/02\/23\/great-just-great\/"},"modified":"2003-02-23T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-23T15:31:00","slug":"great-just-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2003\/02\/23\/great-just-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Great. Just… great."},"content":{"rendered":"

Inexperience hurt shuttle analysis, engineers say<\/a><\/p>\n

The engineers at Boeing's plant in Huntington Beach, Calif., say they had done these analyses for 20 years. But this year, they were not asked to.<\/p>\n

The reason, they say: Boeing transferred shuttle jobs to Houston in a consolidation that cost the company scores of its most experienced shuttle engineers in the past two years – including some of those who invented the methodology for debris damage and thermal analysis.<\/p>\n

Of 1,300 jobs in Boeing's shuttle program nationwide, 500 were transferred last year from California, officials said. Only 100 people actually made the move; scores of veteran engineers left the company or stayed behind, doing other work, according to Boeing spokeswoman Kari Allen.<\/p>\n

So as the clock was ticking toward Columbia's re-entry, Boeing managers relied on a Houston-based team of engineers who had never done this type of analysis in a real situation.<\/p>\n

“This was their first flight,” said the Boeing thermal systems engineer. “This was the first time they took over.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inexperience hurt shuttle analysis, engineers say The engineers at Boeing's plant in Huntington Beach, Calif., say they had done these analyses for 20 years. But this year, they were not asked to. The reason, they say: Boeing transferred shuttle jobs to Houston in a consolidation that cost the company scores of its most experienced shuttle engineers in the past two years – including some of those who invented the methodology for debris damage and thermal analysis. Of 1,300 jobs in Boeing's shuttle program nationwide, 500 were transferred last year from California, officials said. Only 100 people actually made the move; scores of veteran engineers left the company or stayed behind, doing other work, according to Boeing spokeswoman Kari Allen. So as the clock was ticking toward Columbia's re-entry, Boeing managers relied on a Houston-based team of engineers who had never done this type of analysis in a real situation. “This was their first flight,” said the Boeing thermal systems engineer. “This was the first time they took over.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}