ABIS – The Biggest Test Yet. Today marks the start of my next ABIS – America Back Into Space story arc. Robert L Carter, NASA’s Head of Operations and Administration knows that the supply of fuel currently available to his three Orbital Shuttles is not inexhaustible and that very soon that fuel is going to start running out leaving his three shuttles stranded with nowhere to go. The first three missions undertaken by his new Cocoon Cargo Carrier, the now successful test flights which have enabled Cocoon to be awarded the all important “Certificate of Aero-Space Worthiness” have allowed the elements to be placed into space which will be needed to support Cocoon’s forth flight, a flight which for Cocoon will be its biggest test yet. As the forward momentum of the latest Cocoon Cargo Carrier to be launched into space finally comes to a halt in low Earth orbit, and the four series of explosive bolts fire allowing the base, sides and nosecone of the Cocoon to separate and move way, its internally located payload is revealed to show the FPM or Fuel Pod Mount, the mounting device that Carter has designed to safely carry the generic pods which hold much needed fuel for NASA’s fleet of three Orbital Shuttles into space along with the first twelve pods of replacement manoeuvring fuel. For Cocoon this has been the biggest test yet of its cargo carrying ability, as the payload of replacement manoeuvring fuel would have created quite a firework display had the short but rapid flight from Earth’s surface, to Earth’s orbit gone wrong. At both Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, and at Mission Control in Texas, the relief felt that Cocoon has safely reached Earth orbit takes on an audible manifestation as a huge round of cheers fill both rooms. But whilst the job for Cocoon on its latest flight into space may be over, the mission which started when Cocoon left the ground still has a long way to go before it will be finally, and safely, completed.