…SPOILER WARNING…

a.81

add three planes and take a tangent.
now reversed reverse acceleration parabolic, RRAP, which spells Wrap, which is not done in Reverse.
– I remember.
Okay, and we have to overshoot (to use the correct traffic entry for the sidespace)
and then you take a plane, a minor tangent, and Wrap. And we call that a cloverleaf.

“I can technically do each of those things.”

“Now do them one after the other. I believe in you.”

a.82

Easy cruisin, constant movin.” Derringer had coined this phrase a while ago for certain recurring job phases, those times when he was supposed to come up with something out of thin air with no clue. Well, the air gets thinner if you lean into the wind. Inspiration can arrive more easily, so long as you keep paying attention to what you’re really supposed to be doing. That’s what he was telling himself now.

a.83

I can use any of these seven reagent powders, and then some deionized water.

I have the DI water, of course. Will it help you if I can supply a handful each of these three?

Yes, and your mixer is working?

I’ll mix them up for you. I only have a standard spouted feeder bowl…

Soleil nodded that this would be fine. “While you do that, can I use your air brush?

Sure. It’s a little big for that.” The smallest spacecraft anyone expected to service was three to four times the size of this funny little sled.