The tower is ready to transmit. Too bad it won't be on our shift. He waited for a reply from SJ, but he might have missed it. The digital displays were taking some of his concentration now. He felt her voice, but he missed the first few words.
Next shift gets the glory.
The next shift would transmit the data. But no one was making claims for success quite yet. It was an untested method, and the plans needed for construction of an adequate receiver module aboard the spacecraft were complex. Yet without the receiver module, the spacecraft would be totally without life. The chances of the plans getting through in this transmission were minimal.