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* Phoenix 53, d’oh!

So yeah… fun times. The rumor mill is we’re either going up in late December or early January now, depending on some internal discussions and schedule updates involving the Cape and the space station, but yeah… soon, it’ll be our turn in the hot seat. I hope.

So we’re waiting for THAT to get cleared up at the moment, yaaay.
It doesn’t sound horrible, though, all told and our new booster is down at the Cape. Our Orion capsule’s just been hanging out in a clean room in Florida waiting for us, in the meantime. It’s pristine and ready to go.

SIMSUP took a LITTLE pity on us after that one, since they threw a NASTY combination of errors at us on top of that. Last run was just a standard, sweet down the middle aerobrake down to 250 miles above the Earth.

Bwegh… gonna hit the manuals over dinner tonight, I think.