World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

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Once again Edwards Air Force Base is on standby to land the Space Shuttle if weather at Kennedy deteriorates. Once again, it is my speculation that there is no way on earth that NASA or Edwards would ever consider allowing private contractors to conduct operations within the Shuttle's recovery (or launch) operational window. By way of further speculation on my part, as a private contractor I would not be enamored of the idea of starting testing during the time period beginnng after the end of the shuttle's launch window and the start of the shuttle's recovery window even if restrictions were lifted by NASA and the Base during that interim time period. If the duration of the planned testing schedule exceeded the duration of the interim opportunity period, the cost of the testing operations would be increased by the requirement of two startups and two shutdowns as opposed to a single startup, testing, and a single shutdown. So I think it is quite possible that when the shuttle was delayed for two weeks starting August 27th, that strat testing may have been postponed the whole time between then and the planned landing this week. All imo.