Find It, Fix It, Fly It 

Welcome, boys and girls, to today's installment of Grumpy Old Space Coot. Allow me to bring your attention to some quotes from this story in today's edition of The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger:

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Meanwhile, Rosenker said it was too soon to know whether something was wrong with the track.
"We need to learn more," Rosenker said Thursday. "I cannot validate what (the engineer) saw. (His statement) certainly adds a great deal to the investigation."
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The track reopened early Thursday morning. The first freight train probably traveled across it around 3 a.m., Thomson said. As many as 10 freight trains had been across the track by Thursday afternoon, he said.
Amtrak's first train since the derailment was scheduled to cross the site this morning.

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This was a wreck that killed a woman, and injured 60 other people, some of them severely. Now, compare this to the last over-a-year of NASA's existance: They don't know what caused the wreck, and yet they're already putting people back in the same situation.
I don't really have a point here, it just struck me as interesting.

:: :: 08:27 :: David :: [permalink] ::