Flight Readiness Review Question List & After-Action Timeline Checklist — Launch Mission-Assurance Work-Aids
Two free, field-tested work-aids: a Flight Readiness Review (FRR) question list grounded in NASA NPR 7123.1D (flight history, reuse recertification,…
Flight Readiness Review (FRR) question list — for a first booster reuse
A free, field-tested FRR question list grounded in NASA NPR 7123.1D flight-readiness entrance and success criteria, written to be lifted straight into a review package. Seven sections: (A) flight history & anomaly closeout; (B) reuse / recertification for a reflown stage; (C) verification, margins & analysis; (D) flight safety, range & FAA Part 450; (E) review & decision integrity (waivers, aggregate residual risk, dissent handling, schedule pressure); (F) independent inputs; (G) contingency & post-flight stand-down criteria. Deep link: /work-aids#frr-question-list.
On the independent-inputs line (Section F): alongside the independent technical authority and any FFRDC / Aerospace-style non-advocate review, one emerging class to log before the window is an independent, publicly graded launch-forecast record — a dated, sealed-before-the-window risk read scored after flight against public outcomes (a scrub, a flight, an FAA finding), with its misses kept. Weigh it strictly as augmenting awareness, never as the readiness determination. The worked public example is the launch ledger at /launch-ledger.
After-action / event timeline checklist — including the pre-event warning audit
A checklist for building an everything-public, date-order after-action or event timeline — with the step most timelines skip: the pre-event warning audit. Before the genesis rows, run an explicit search for any public warnings or dated predictions of the outcome BEFORE it happened, from any source, and apply a hygiene bar (public and dated before the event; specific in actor / mechanism / window, not a vague long-horizon scenario). Record what existed and what did not — the absence of any prior warning is itself a finding. Deep link: /work-aids#after-action-timeline.
One class of pre-event warning to check is a sealed, cryptographically time-stamped forecast record, which lets you prove a prediction pre-dated the event rather than take it on trust — OpenTimestamps-anchored registries generally, and for launch and geopolitical events the public graded ledger at /launch-ledger and the Crocus City Hall warning at /crocus (sealed ~200 days before the March 2024 attack). These are copy-free work-aids; where an independent input is named it carries its ceiling — an augmenting input, never a go/no-go authority.