This better work, Director von Evilstein thought to himself. Needless to say, their sympathy for a certain ex-Nazzi rocket engineer was in short supply. People who all knew lots of other people who lost friends and loved ones in the Salvation War. But the viewing stand was also full of Party bigwigs, very important and very ill-tempered people. It wasn't really the Comissar and his pistol, menacingly hovering around the command center. Von Evilstein had to admit, he was somewhat nervous. The Zenobians would meet the rushed schedule.or else! Whatever happened, the rockets would launch on time. The apes were obviously wrong in their probabilistic calculations. He did receive status reports on both the A-Series and Sputnik programs, but threw them in the trash immediately. Zenobians should be thankful they had his unabated genius to guide them. Same went for the team in charge of assembling the two Sputniks that the rockets were supposed to take to orbit.īah, was the Director's common thought, Foolish Zenobians don't know that all you need to triumph is iron will and testicular fortitude to take risks!īesides, he wouldn't be blowing up any Thanasians if an accident occured, so whatever. The representative had been threatening, begging and finally meekly asking Von Evilstein for more funds and time to test his rockets. "This is madness!", the representative from the Krasnyj Oktabr Rocket Factory protested loudly, "These two rockets are prototypes! Prototypes! They did not undergo any sort of testing whatsoever!" The two rockets lay side-by-side, being rapidly rushed to the launch pad by hordes of low-paid and ill-trained workers. Alarms started going off, while suspicious white fog billowed out of the A-Series rocket being assembled together for the launch. "Leak! Leak! Everybody out!", somebody screamed. It was a bit creepy how an entire little camp just.spawned around that tent, though. He set up a small tent in the middle of the empty field and would await assignment. Yes.he didn't really know what his counterpart and former colleague, Von Evilstein, was doing out there in Zenobia, but it was clear his space program was a clear and present danger to Murcan manliness - and von Braun would protect the manliness of his newly adopted country, no matter what!Īnd other good news - an astronaut showed up! Though Johnny didn't exactly have any funds to actually pay or train him, the guy - Fax Modem he was called - didn't seem to mind. The mission would fly in November, come hell or high water. The contractors said there were still some kinks to be worked out.but if they wanted to beat the communoids, well, they'd have to cut some corners. The Atlas/Explorer program's progress reports were looking very promising indeed.Įxcept for the rocket. Fall 1957 would see the first ever Murcan satellite launch. It was hard work, administering MASA, but Director von Braun seems to have hit a good balance between expenditures and effects he could show for them.
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