Justification For Killing
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PARTURE’, ‘DESTINATION’ and ‘RETURN’ readouts. Were they the same ones used for Grandpa’s Launch Four? Forrest was not sure, but he certainly hoped they were. We could end up in an African swamp in prehistoric times, he thought!!
If he had remembered correctly, all he had to do was reset the launch time and activate the launch countdown sequence on the Launch Computer. This Launch Control Computer would send Pegasus to the ‘DESTINATION’ coordinates automatically. Departure was still set for 2:29:30 on 21 November 2012 the current date was December 6, 2012. Fortunately, these were the easiest setting to change. The button next to the display could change the numbers by merely allowing each individual number to advance or recede to the number desired. Once the ‘DE