06:38.Ambient air: thirty-six degrees Fahrenheit.Below specification.Within waiver.Steel contracts by microns.Elastomer stiffens, loses elasticity,forgets return.This is recorded.This is archived.This becomes authorisation.A teleconference ends without goodbye.Voices replaced by line noise.Someone enters flight rationaleand the phrase begins behavinglike explanation rather than warning.On the pad,handrails hold frost.Liquid oxygen vents, white and animal,breathing toward ignition.No one writes flammable.Everyone writes cold.The…