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On the bridge, Hans Brekke, captain of the Odyssey Launch Platform, listens to a readiness poll with his officers. They hear a GO for erecting the rocket on the launch pad and the activity gets underway. |
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The rocket is rolled out of its protective hangar on the transport-erector. With all systems set to go, the automated sequence is signaled and the powerful hydraulic pumps raise the rocket onto the launch pad at the stern of the vessel.
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