1.   Shuttle managers are to meet Monday for a major review of mission plans before confirming their launch plans.

2.   The mission plan called for an upper limit on the amount of propellant that could be used during the descent.

3.   And this was not even part of the original mission plan, but an example of a constructive response to adversity.

4.   But as well as borrowing real-life mission plans, the filmmakers have also been borrowing some real, live scientists.

5.   Glenn has done well physically by all accounts, though NASA protects the medical privacy of its astronauts unless their conditions warrant a change in mission plans.

6.   He also needs to immediately organize a coherent, unified national staff and to develop a mission plan for chapters.

7.   NASA elected to complete its mission plans, though some lawmakers and critics of the policy argued the program had become too risky.

8.   Nevertheless, NASA had the National Academy of Sciences, the congressionally chartered group of leading scientists that advises the government, go over the mission plan carefully.

9.   The mission plan calls for the shuttle to dock with Mir on Monday.