m.t. whitington


A force majeure, female catalyst, futurist, polemicist, psychonaut, epistemologist. Ruminating between the lines with a clarion call and extreme unction.  A global writer with southern roots.


The Hunters

The Hunters

launch talk

liftoff lingo

go no go

slow fill fast fill

liquid oxygen

LOX top and replenish

L minus 

time until liftoff

T minus checklist

hold

head to the white room

crew access arm ingress

ground launch sequence

terminal count

umbilical separation

interim cryogenic propulsion stage

ICPS propellant 

two solid fuel rocket boosters

core stage acronyms

SRB solid rocket booster

jettison

LAS launch abort system

in the event of malfunction

MECO main engine cutoff 

Zero Gs RISE 

moon mascot

smiling to the farside

wearing a baseball cap at Earthrise

plush zero gravity indicator floats

spacefaring hunters and lovers

raise the perigee maneuver 

burn apogee 

translunar injection arrows

Orion and Artemis passions

released from Earth in five days

into the tug of the moon

lunar sphere of influence flyby

figure eight slingshot

blistering reentry

drogue and pilot parachutes

drop satellite 

ten days and three rockets

blastoff jargon

Lunar Lander brings

boots to the moonbase

Planet B human bargain

Artemis IV on the surface

Time of Death—damnatio memoria

Time of Death—damnatio memoria