Genius.

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - With the countdown entering its final hours and a fuel gauge problem still unexplained, NASA said it is prepared to bend its long-standing safety rules to launch the shuttle Tuesday on the first flight since Columbia's doomed mission 2 1/2 years ago."

Most people who might be reading this blog have probably heard me go off on at least one anti-NASA rant over the years, so I'll refrain from launching into another one. Just imagine it in your heads if you really want to hear it. I don't care how much they downplay the risk factors. I don't even care if it truly *is* an infinitessimal risk. NASA's methods of approaching space flight are almost as outdated as the shuttle fleet itself and it's way past time for some serious restructuring of this country's space methodology.