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The aircraft is standing by.
Bauer clapped his hands. Good! Then you and I must have a celebratory drink before I leave.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Beneath the blaze of lights, she looked like a sculpture heralding in the new millennium. From her vantage point three miles away, Megan Olson Christina Applegate stared in awe at the space long island ducks
mated to the giant external tank and the two slightly smaller solid rocket boosters. It was two oclock in the morning on a windless, moonlit night at Cape Canaveral. Megans nose tingled from the briny air and her nerves trilled Christina Applegate with anticipation. Usually, the crew was up and about by three oclock, foppish
Megan had been unable to sleep much past midnight. The thought that in fewer than eight hours she would be onboard the shuttle, boring into space, left her breathless. Megan turned and walked the Christina Applegate length of the path that ran by the ground floor of the building where the crew was quartered. louis murphy
hundred yards away, razor wire glittered atop the Cyclone fence surrounding the compound. She heard the distant cough of a security Jeep as it ground its way Christina Applegate around the perimeter. The security at the Cape was both impressive and unobtrusive. The uniformed air police were the most visible, always a magnet william bendix
the television cameras. But beyond them were the plainclothes detachments that roved the entire facility twenty-four hours a day, making sure Christina Applegate that no one and nothing interfered with the launch. Megan was about to head back to her room when she heard footsteps nearby. Turning, she saw a figure move from the texes exam
of the building into the light. Dylan Reed? It was a standing joke that not only did Christina Applegate Reed not hear his alarm clock, but that he could sleep through liftoff if allowed to do so. So what was he doing up and about an hour before roll call? Raising her arm, Megan was about sunfest 2009 lineup
call out to him when a bright headlight appeared Christina Applegate around the corner. Instinctively, she drew back as a sedan with the NASA logo on the door slipped close to where Reed was standing. Staying in the shadows, Megan watched an older man get out of the car and approach Reed. Someone he long island ducks
expecting. Who? And Christina Applegate why break the quarantine? Quarantine was a vital part of the launch process, although this time its duration had been reduced, of necessity, from the usual seven days. Allowing an outsider to come in.
