REMEMBER, empty MOON LAUNCH tomorrow 8:30 AM ET.

[micky]

REMEMBER, empty MOON LAUNCH tomorrow 8:30 AM ET.

[Marilyn Manson]

I had a doctor's appt this morning and wouldn't have been able to watch it.

I called in a favor and had one of the techs cause a small fuel leak to delay the launch. When the appt ran longer than expected, I called in another favor and had a different tech screw up the engine pre-cooling process.

I've still got a few favors left, but I hope to be able to let the launch happen later this week.

I apologize for any inconvenience that I caused.

[Dean Hoffman]

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[Dean Hoffman]

They're using Space Shuttle rockets to make this thing go.

[Marilyn Manson]

umm...yeah...I know that.

(Remember, I have contacts at NASA that do favors for me.)

[Dean Hoffman]

Do you know people in the British Navy?

I've seen this other places so it's really broken. The aircraft carrier HMS Prince Of Wales has propeller shaft problems.

[Snag]

Any idea where those SRB's are being built ? Any chance it's Thiokol's Wasatch division out in Utah ? I worked there when these were being built , And I was on the crew that poured the propellant into the boosters for that first flight ... what a thrill !

[Marilyn Manson]

I do, but ...

... I don't call in favors which could cause an unsafe condition. It's not like I had the techs do something dangerous. I just delayed the launch a few days.

Like Neil deGrasse Tyson said after my plan succeeded, "Better that it gets scrubbed than explode on the launch pad."

[Dean Hoffman]

The last article I ran across said one the ship's two propeller shafts wasn't properly lubricated. I'd hate to be the guys who were supposed to take care of that.

[Marilyn Manson]

Yeah, I hate when the shaft's not properly lubricated.

Who knows...maybe it's an automated system that malfunctioned.

[Dean Hoffman]

Weather permitting, it's go at 2:17 EDT for Artemis. Set your alarm clock.

[Marilyn Manson]

... exactly as I planned it.

To be more precise, the 2 hour launch window opens at 14:17 EDT or, in NASA speak, 18:17 GMT/UTC

And it's not just "weather permitting."

Melody Lovin is a launch weather officer:

["The weather continues to still look pretty good for the launch attempt on Saturday," Lovin said. "I do not expect weather to be a show-stopper by any means for either launch window."

Still, she added, the odds of scrubbing a launch on any given day for weather or any reason were about one-in-three.]

Melody, a dear friend, is including me in that one-in-three.

[Marilyn Manson]

Whoops...It wasn't me this time.

Let's hope things go better on Labor Day.