At roughly 6.5 hours prior to re-entry, Neil Hutchinson in SPAN calls up GNC Buck Willoughby and proudly proclaims that the CSM engineers have completely filled up the SSR rooms, including the consoles that would have presumably have been used by the Booster engineers (or in Neil's parlance, the "Booster dummies") to spectate on re-entry. Earlier in the night, he had warned the CSM backroom folks to get in early to beat them to the punch.
As a humorous note: At around the same time that Milt Windler warned about access being restricted to the MOCR and SSRs due to overcrowding concerns, EECOM Charlie Dumis had
cleverly asked his backroom personnel what they planned to be doing during re-entry. Dick Brown (EPS) said that he would be working on the Olivetti punching up numbers - and all of his colleagues thereafter said they would be helping him on the Olivetti. These "jobs" helped to justify them being in the SSR, ensuring they'd be able to view the re-entry.
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Topic: 136:12:29 "We've got the BOOSTER consoles completely occupied." (Read 10 times)