Besides, It's Not The Managers Who Have To Fly In The Damn Thing

With a week to go before it is scheduled to lift off, NASA engineers are analyzing an air leak in the space shuttle Endeavour's crew cabin.

It is not clear if NASA's upper management--who have in the past dismissed as unimportant reports of foam hitting the spacecraft's wing and exposure of rubber o-rings to cold temperatures--will consider the absence of breathable oxygen an acceptable risk to the crew.