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Counting Down
Life is all about picking yourself up over and over again.
—Lindsey Stirling
The entire BrainTrust, it seemed, turned out 24/7 for the task of getting the Heinlein ready for launch. The students on the BTU turned out full-force, producing final detailed plans for the different parts of the ship or programming the bots to implement those plans or just wrangling the bots in real-time to account for programming and planning deficiencies.
Almost all were motivated to participate to a greater or lesser extent by knowing that this project had a rendezvous with destiny. They knew they wanted to be able to tell the story. “I was there, and this is how I helped make history happen.”
But there were other motivations as well. Some of the politically enthusiastic students— the Re
