Readiness? We Don't Need to Be Ready!

Next week, I will be attending a 4-day review for our next flight test. Today, I sat through the entire 4-day review. Well, not the whole thing. I left at 6:30. They were still going, and I think they're going back tomorrow morning. It was scheduled to be done today, but no one actually thought it would be.

The review is called a Readiness Review, and it's actually important. You don't just light the back end of these missiles and hope everything works in a major test like this. The problem is that with anything this major, there are known issues, unknown issues, and tons of pressure to get everything right.

It also looks like I'm going to be in Colorado Springs for the test event, possibly up to two weeks before the test. I don't mind the travel, but being gone for two weeks would bother me.

Just saw this: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html. It explains why writing my thesis went the way it did.

Well, that's my quick update. More eventually.