One organizational question: What do you think about offering jobs for "Mission maintainers"? Keeping the missions up-to-date with our progress can be a lot of work and I think it is a good position for people who would like to help, but have no add-on making skills or experience.
The tasks would be in Detail like that:
1. Create and maintain scenario files for one Space Shuttle mission. That means:
1a) One scenario for each critical event: prelaunch, docking, payload deployment, EVAs, undocking, deorbit.
1b) One scenario for each flight day after the first. The first flight day starts with the T-2:25:00 prelaunch scenario. The constant scenarios for each first flight day are:
- Crew ingress (T-2:25:00)
- After the first hold (T-20:00)
- Final countdown (T-9:00)
- Post insertion (T+50:00)
- Beginning of Orbit operations (T+2:30:00)
2. Create and maintain the mission file for one mission.
3. Document missions for SSU with information additionally to the available checklists.
4. Maintaining means, ensuring that all scenarios work with a new version of SSU and
4a) Report possible bugs
4b) Edit scenario files to support new developments.
What do you think? we can of course do this all ourself, but letting others develop the missions would speed things up. The quality control of the missions would be still important, but that can be managed.