Steve Payne

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  www.space.com/missionlaunches/090821-sts128-mission-upd - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/1/2009    Last Visited: 9/1/2009  

  NASA test director Steve Payne said Discovery currently has a 70 percent chance of good weather for launching spaceward Tuesday at 1:36 a.m. EDT (0536 GMT) and lighting up the dark morning sky over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  
  "It should be a spectacular launch ," Payne said today in a mission briefing at the spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Fla. "I'm hoping we put on a good show for you."
  
  Of the seven remaining shuttle missions before NASA retires is shuttle fleet in 2010 or 2011, Discovery's is currently the last planned night launch, though schedules can change, Payne added.
  
  The only issue for the upcoming launch is ongoing analysis of a shuttle power controller that had to be replaced on Discovery, but Payne said engineers are confident they will complete the work in time for liftoff.
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  Payne said Discovery has four chances to lift off during its five-day launch widow, with fair weather expected.

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  Published on: 6/16/2009    Last Visited: 6/16/2009  

  "Our teams have been working very hard over the last couple of days to get this piece of equipment fixed," said NASA Test Director Steve Payne during a briefing Monday on the repair job.
  
  "Endeavour is in good shape and the teams are excited to be back to working toward a launch on Wednesday morning," he said.

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  www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-shuttle-endeavour-scrubb - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/17/2009    Last Visited: 6/17/2009  

  "We are convinced it is fixed after this," Steve Payne, NASA test director at Kennedy Space Center, told reporters on Monday soon after NASA pushed back the launch of is moon project from Wednesday to Friday to give the shuttle one more crack at getting off the ground.

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  www.floridaholidayreview.com/florida-news/2009_03_01_fl - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2009    Last Visited: 3/29/2009  

  The shuttle test director at the Kennedy space center, Steve Payne says that this evening they have a meeting with all the engineers, so that they could explain them the things they have been working for the last few months.

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  www.space-travel.com/reports/Endeavour_Ready_To_Go_999. - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/11/2009    Last Visited: 6/16/2009  

  "The teams here at Kennedy Space Center have been working extremely hard to try to get to this point," said NASA Test Director Steve Payne during a countdown status briefing Wednesday.

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  www.chippewa.com/articles/2009/06/16/ap/science/d98rbba - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/13/2009    Last Visited: 6/16/2009  

  If Endeavour has to step aside for the moon shot, that would bump the shuttle flight into July unless it was shortened, an unappealing option for the space station program, said NASA test director Steve Payne.

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  www.torontosun.com/news/world/2009/08/21/10552601.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/21/2009    Last Visited: 8/24/2009  

  NASA test director Steve Payne said everything is on track for the countdown to begin late Friday night. The only outstanding issue is a shuttle power controller that had to be replaced, but Payne said so far, all the testing looks good.

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  www.wilx.com/home/headlines/53945492.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/21/2009    Last Visited: 8/25/2009  

  NASA test director Steve Payne said everything is on track for the countdown to begin late Friday night. The only outstanding issue is a shuttle power controller that had to be replaced, but Payne said so far, all the testing looks good.
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  Steve in Grand Rapids MI

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  Published on: 3/10/2009    Last Visited: 3/11/2009  

  "We have no real concerns and we are ready for the exciting mission that lies ahead of us," said NASA test director Steve Payne.

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  Published on: 7/13/2009    Last Visited: 7/13/2009  

  "Today is our day," said Steve Payne, NASA's shuttle test director.

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