Delbert said:

>Why does NASA seem so paralyzed about this problem with the
>Canada Arm? It seems they are afraid to proceed
>with anything until they are 100% on this thing.

If I was to guess: The Canada Arm is worth more than ten
times Delbert's lifetime wage. That's a pretty good reason
to make sure they're 100% right on every move they make.
Also the arm is Canadian so it's an international incident
if they make a mess of it. Finally the ISS is already
billions over budget so the press will pillory NASA no
matter what it does so they might as well be criticized for
being slow rather than for screwing it up.

Gary