Lag Delay

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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

ASIN: B0CRP1SDFF

This book has been through a Pentagon prepublication security review.

“Ten, nine, eight,” the OuterTek webcast presenter said as Captain Michael DePresti watched the numbers at the bottom of his launch console count down towards T-0.

Everything had been building towards this moment for the last three years.

As the ILIAD mission’s Shrike Heavy rocket government mission integration manager (GMIM), DePresti had worked his ass off to integrate the NASA payload headed to Venus. The rocket that it sat atop was nearly three miles away, at Launch Complex-39a outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the historic control center that had commanded the Apollo and Shuttle missions of years past.

The sun was setting behind them and the Atlantic Ocean, a deep blue expanse to the east, stood as a beautiful backdrop to the most exciting moment in spaceflight: a rocket launch.

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