MISSION CONTROL

Module 1 -- the launch.
by Stuart Allen, build 1/1

You are FLIGHT for this mission -- the flight director on console in Building 30, Houston. On the pad in Florida, fifteen hundred kilometres south-east, a four-stage liquid-fuelled vehicle stands ready: the BURROUGHS stack, fully fuelled and on internal power, with a single astronaut in the command capsule at the top.

The count is at T-minus one minute. Your team is sharp and quiet. The decisions are yours; the consequences are seven thousand tonnes of cryogenic propellant and a woman strapped to the front of it.


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