"No one comes down here expecting to launch at a set time," says Craig Covault, senior editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology and a longtime reporter on NASA's space shuttle launches.
Indeed, a series of previously unscheduled press conferences held August 26-27 at Kennedy Space Center, FL, during NASA's most recent attempt at a shuttle launch show how the NASA public affairs team must be agile in providing information to the media and the public in general on the always ...