Exactly. The memo was a way to put a stake in the ground that can be impossible at a meeting that someone else is conducting. At a meeting, if the organizer c

Exactly. The memo was a way to put a stake in the ground that can be impossible at a meeting that someone else is conducting. At a meeting, if the organizer chooses to move on to another topic after you present an issue, you have no choice but to go along. Here's a Shuttle Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center: http://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/12/06pd1141.jpg http://appel.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2010/12/06p... It's hard to stop a train like that. Currently, the (large) meeting room at NASA JSC where flight decisions are made has many big red hand pieces at which anyone who has an issue can break in.