LRO is on the move again!!!!

At7:10 AM today, 12/06/2008, we began the Orbiter Trend up test, TC-92. This will be followed by the LROC Collimator Test, TC-93. We anticipate installing the Californium radioative source at 11:00 AM and then closing the door for chamber pumpdown.

After closing the door, we will run the LEND functional (with source), then power down the orbiter for the initial stage uf chamber pump down. the orbiter will remain off until the cha,ber pressure reaches 10-5 torr or less.

.........
Once upon a mid-shift dreary,
while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of software lore,
While I nodded, soundly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some TC gently tapping, tapping on my neck so sore
'Tis some TC, I muttered, `tapping on my neck so sore
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each thermal cycle wrought its data from the plan.
Eagerly I sought the morrow;
vainly I had wished to borrow
From my laptop files of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Joanne -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Joanne-
Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each thermal curtain
Thrilled me, filled me with unnoticed problems never seen before;
So that now, to calm the beating of my heart,
I stood repeating'Tis some shift lead simply pleading, for entrance through the building door, Some poor shift lead pleading,
for entrance through the building door;
This it is, and nothing more,’
…………………(To be Continued)

With apologies to E.A. Poe