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United States Government: Special Order Code 14235#
File: Operation Angel Light
Status: Active
Control: Space Division, NASA, profile 296.1 -S. HARVEY
Level of Surveillance: Tracking
Vehicle: 1 x Soyuz-Frigate Rocket
1 x F54 Royal Ascender Spacecraft (New prototype design, see separate file)
Crew: Col. David Carter - Commander and senior liaison officer/overseer
Col. Abigail Taylor - Flight Commander
Major. Adrian Bryant - Astronaut and Assistant Pilot
Dr. Salem Kalmar - Medical Officer
Off. Carolyn Akbar - Systems and Communications Officer
Gen. Lucia Nikolov - Astronaut and Assistant Pilot
Dr. Abu Phillips-Murphy - Mechanical Systems Engineer
Lt. Juliano Perez - Pilot
Lt. Jacques Christophe - Astronaut and Assistant Pilot
Lt. Sinhala Hiawatha - Pilot
Lt. Marissa Herman - Astronaut
Gen. Pieter Grasser - Astronaut
Mission Objective: (EYES ONLY: CARTER/TAYLOR)
Primary Objective: Reach and establish contact with unknown body, following set NASA protocol. Inspect base origin of body, and look for readings of elements and of organic life. Priority One: any discovery of life forms and/or other new base elements to be sampled and kept in cold storage for immediate return to Earth, as part of standard protocol.
Secondary Objective: Study of Jupiter. Use telephoto lenses and freeze-frame technology to capture close-up images of the planet. Priority One: key analysis of Jupiter’s climate, elemental make-up, topography and lithography to be relayed back to Houston at the nearest convenience.
Tertiary Objective: Testing of Spacecraft design (Model F54 TZ097) for suitability to NASA programs. No crew-level assessment required, until scheduled return on 01/23/2035
Priority: Maximum
Houston Command: Colonel Alexander Willis, Section Commander Nicholas Brigham
Flight Command: Colonel Abigail Taylor
Course: Direct flight in Soyuz rocket (‘Journey’) to ISS Docking Station 2. Crew to disembark, rendezvous with Captain Chris Johansson aboard the Space Station, before boarding the F54 (‘Royal Ascender’) at Docking Station 5. Pilots Sinhala Hiawatha and Juliano Perez are to take off from ISS and engage the automatic computer flight program for the 2-year flight to unknown body. Upon arrival at this body, and following the completion of set objectives to their fullest extent, crew are to begin return journey to the ISS, where NASA technicians will be waiting to examine samples and study important data. The crew will return to Earth, in a waiting shuttle. IMPORTANT: There is to be no deviation of any kind from this pattern. Any deviation whatsoever will be treated as a breach of NASA protocol, and is punishable by penalisation. It is therefore up to Colonel Carter to ensure that no such deviation occurs, in order to keep the predicted course of the mission constant.
Schedule: Soyuz Take-off Sequence: 08:00 hours, 07/02/2030
Soyuz Docking Sequence: 11:24 hours, 07/02/2030
F54 Royal Ascender Take-off Sequence: 12:24 hours, 07/02/2030
F54 Royal Ascender Re-entry Sequence: 12:24 hours, 01/23/2035
F54 Royal Ascender Docking Sequence: 13:46 hours, 01/23/2035
Shuttle Take-off Sequence: TBC
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File Codename: OPANGELLIGHT556
Sender: Colonel Samuel Harvey Jr., Head of Operations, NASA
[EYES ONLY: POTUS]
