Problem Reports and Closures

Going back to another post with saying that EVERYTHING gets documented, today I did my first closures on some Problem Reports. A Problem Report documents a discrepancy on a piece of equipment and steps to fix it. The closure is basically just a summary of the report and a conclusion. It states the problem, what was done to fix it, and the end result. The ones I wrote were for failed GN2 samples and a leaky valve. Simple stuff that was fixed by re-sampling the GN2 and tightening the valve. Pretty basic stuff, but you have to start somewhere.

Today was the first time I got to up my unescorted access to use. I only ran some papers to the firing room for signatures and then delivering them to the Pad. Yet another surreal moment as I sat in my car...alone...and stared at the shuttle sitting pretty on the launch pad. I love my job.

Tomorrow is a dress rehearsal for the launch. I am working on being able to sit in on the job, but I'm not sure what it entails for our group. There is going to be the confidence run on Thursday, which is what I'm really looking forward too because it will be the first time I get to see the APUs fired up. For the confidence run, the RSS has to be rolled back. Hopefully I can get some time to go out and get some good shots of the shuttle.