The weekend was spent fixing problems, tying up loose ends and conducting integrated systems tests. The whole team basically spent the weekend in our hotel room working on whatever needed to be done and testing. The flyers were able to get through two full test runs to get them prepared and allow us to get ground test data as well. Since our Joint Propulsion Conference paper is due one week after we get back, it was good to get some data now. The flyers should also be much more prepared. Not much else happened this weekend. We were able to get the system functioning with only a few minor things to be done before the structure was loaded onto the aircraft. We should have some good flights.
Sunday night we all watched a new Discovery Channel series "When we left Earth". It consisted of two 1 hour episodes that walked through events starting with the Mercury flights. Astronauts during that time gave their recollections along with actual videos from that time. The series continues next week.
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