I remember as a kid going on a rocket club tour of the Dryden Flight Research center at Edwards AFB. The guy giving us the tour, who I think was one of the old time engineers that had been there a few decades, was discussing the test stands used to test rocket engines for NASA and the air force, when one of the kids in my group asked "so how did they ignite these large rocket engines?" Our guide answered him, "we give a second lieutenant a BiC lighter and tell him to go in and hold it up."Anyway, I would hope that the real dude (with some big ass balls) out on the boom got some seriously big bucks for doing that shit.
Apparently she was just playing the long game so she could get some free flight time. (Pretty cool they invited her out)Thanks for sharing - calm, cool, aviate, navigate, communicate right there.