Days to Mars

Take a station

Watch somebody else’s ship and tell them what Earth can see that they cannot.

Earth can see the Sun. A ship in transit cannot. Solar observatories get minutes to hours of warning before a particle event arrives — sometimes enough to get a crew behind something solid, sometimes not. That warning has to travel to her at the speed of light like everything else, and by the time she can answer you, the situation has moved on.

You cannot fly her. You can only tell her what you know, early enough to matter. Nothing has departed yet, so today the job is the one real flight directors spend most of their time on: read the plan, and say what you would change.

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