51.   NASA shuttle program managers decided Tuesday to start the countdown after concluding that a dramatic shuttle launch abort last month posed no safety risks for Discovery.

52.   On Monday, Abbey told his staff that Randy Brinkley and Tommy Holloway will remain in their current posts as station and shuttle program managers at Johnson.

53.   One woman entered the program with little upper body strength, said Mary Howard, program case manager.

54.   Preston Miller, NASCAR program manager for Ford Special Vehicle Operations, said the GM guys are dissing a by-the-book project.

55.   Part of the course consists of simply showing programmers what some key security vulnerabilities look like, said Michael Howard, a program manager for the Secure Windows Initiative.

56.   Program manager Elizabeth Doughty says the foundation now has hundreds of corporate donors, and is gaining at least one every month.

57.   Preston Burch, the Hubble program manager, told a news conference that the operation had gone almost flawlessly once initial problems were overcome.

58.   Presenting options, Charles Bradley Jr., the Energy Department program manager for the uranium, listed a variety of possible uses for the uranium cited over the years.

59.   Recently Motley received an e-mail letter from Saladin, who is now a program manager for Motorola and lives in Arkansas.

60.   Program managers said the leisurely schedule for mating the modules is designed to let controllers thoroughly check out the unit before the critical docking.