IndyRocket Wrote:PERFORM LH2 ET ULLAGE PRESSURE TRANSDUCER NUMBER 4 VERIFICATION. ET BIPOD HEATERS ARE ACTIVATED.

ALL TEST TEAM PERSONNEL SWITCH TO CHNL 212. VERIFY STATUS OF LANDING SITES. PREFLIGHT ALIGNMENT IS COMPLETE. READY FOR TRANSITION TO OPS 1.

INITIATE ET LOX PRESSURIZATION

INITIATE LH2 PREPRESS. ET BIPOD HEATERS OFF. PERFORM SRB FWD MDM LOCKOUT. VERIFY SRB MDM CRITICAL COMMANDS. GROUND POWER REMOVAL. CLOSE LOX & LH2 OUTBOARD FILL & DRAIN.

RETRACT ORBITER ACCESS ARM. MAIN FUEL VALVE HEATERS OFF. INITIATE MPS GIMBAL PROFILE CHECKS.

MPS ENGINES TO START POSITION. TERMINATE GOX VENT HOOD PURGE. PRSD TRANSFER TO INTERNAL REACTANTS.

CLOSE VISORS. GLS GO FOR AUTO SEQUENCE. START SRB APU'S.

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Maybe this is all some sort of secret code...

:ninja:

T-Minus 4 days and a wakeup until kickoff.

START SRB GIMBAL TEST. ACTIVATE SOUND SUPPRESSION WATER. PERFORM SRB AFT MDMS LOCKOUT. VERIFY LH2 HIGH POINT BLEED VALVE CLOSED. TERMINATE MPS HELIUM FILL.

Frapulate the convex burfers. Initiate the podular maxiplaters. Downloading radial ostoportomiters and exicating all portoflatters. Excise seboconcretes and pluck all falconfeathers. Scan broncolatedhuskiemeters. Let's get this thing up in the air and kick some ISU butt!

H2Oville Rocket Wrote:Frapulate the convex burfers. Initiate the podular maxiplaters. Downloading radial ostoportomiters and exicating all portoflatters. Excise seboconcretes and pluck all falconfeathers. Scan broncolatedhuskiemeters. Let's get this thing up in the air and kick some ISU butt!

Darn it H2O, those items were on the pre-launch checklist for T-Minus 3 Days!!!

RR, on day 3 you can splice in a line ahead of the convex burfers and tie back in right after the broncolatedhuskiemeters, then reopen the high point bleed valve and bypass everything in between. We did that last year and it worked...sorta.

T-Minus 3 days and a wakeup until kickoff.


VERIFY TRAJECTORY FOR AMES, IOWA AND 2006 MAC CHAMPIONSHIP. VERIFY ALL SYSTEMS READY FOR CREW MODULE CLOSEOUT. PERFORM AIR TO GROUND VOICE CHECKS. PERFORM FINAL COLLISION AVOIDANCE UPDATE.

RangerRocket Wrote:

H2Oville Rocket Wrote:Frapulate the convex burfers. Initiate the podular maxiplaters. Downloading radial ostoportomiters and exicating all portoflatters. Excise seboconcretes and pluck all falconfeathers. Scan broncolatedhuskiemeters. Let's get this thing up in the air and kick some ISU butt!

Darn it H2O, those items were on the pre-launch checklist for T-Minus 3 Days!!!

OOOOOOOOOPS! I had a premature evacuation!

T-Minus 2 days and a wakeup until kickoff.

FREE HYDROGEN BURN OFF SYSTEM IGNITION. VERIFY STATUS OF LANDING SITES. VERIFY NO VIOLATION OF LAUNCH COMMIT CRITERIA. PERFORM S-BAND SYSTEM HIGH POWER/FM ACTIVATION.

T-Minus 1 day and a wakeup until kickoff.

REMOVE EARTH ROTATIONAL COMPENSATION FROM ALL ONBOARD IMUs.

RangerRocket Wrote:T-Minus 1 day and a wakeup until kickoff.

REMOVE EARTH ROTATIONAL COMPENSATION FROM ALL ONBOARD IMUs.

It's all ball bearings nowadays! ;-)

The nightmare of basketball season and baseball season is almost over! Let the games begin!!!

Kick Some Azz

(K.S.A. is what we had printed on our hat our senior year in HS for the football team. Would be a nice little something to have on the back of a hat).

It's go-time skippy!!!

ChicagoRocket Wrote:The nightmare of basketball season ...is almost over! Let the games begin!!!

You speak blasphemy, Sir!

REMOVE ET/SRB RANGE SAFETY INHIBITS

MAIN ENGINE 3 START COMMAND

MAIN ENGINE 2 START COMMAND

MAIN ENGINE 1 START COMMAND

I'm holding on for dear life, here we go!!

-Dan

its time to kick the tires and light the fires!!!

GO ROCKETS!!!

SRB HOLDDOWN RELEASE COMMAND

LIFTOFF

WE HAVE LIFTOFF.

LIFTOFF OF THE 2006 TOLEDO ROCKETS WITH A MISSION PROFILE OF KICKING ASS, TAKING NAMES, AND BRINGING HOME THE MAC CHAMPIONSHIP TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO.

PLAY TO WIN, REFUSE TO LOSE.

RangerRocket Wrote:LIFTOFF OF THE 2006 TOLEDO ROCKETS WITH A MISSION PROFILE OF KICKING ASS, TAKING NAMES, AND BRINGING HOME THE MAC CHAMPIONSHIP TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO.

PLAY TO WIN, REFUSE TO LOSE.

Woohoooooo!!!!!!!!!

Hold on tight.....this outta be one helluva ride!!!!