The taxi to the end of the runway gets us there at about 8 am.
By 9:30am, we were on station with the ATM.
We encountered some fog, but most of our instruments worked despite it.
Lots of sea ice, nothing else, just ice.
Instrument-driven autopilot takes over.
We flew directly over the North Pole.
Finished the CryoSat-2 ground track.
End of the day science meeting.
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Fabrication recently was completed on the core stage simulator structural test article at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,…
