Tucks laughed, though not derisively.  The laugh was good-natured, and not intended to hurt Katie's feelings.  "Just dinner, right."  He turned to go into his stateroom, then turned back to her.  "Oh, and you're cute when you blush...um, among other times."  Now it was his turn to blush.  "Well, I'd better get ready for lift off."  He gave her a wave, then closed his door, peeking around the door as he closed it, smiling at her.<br/><br/>Rolsing's voice came out of an overhead speaker.  "Ten minutes to lift off.  All crew to lift stations."<br/><br/>For Katie, that would mean that she needed to monitor the environmental readouts for the crew and passenger areas, something she could do from any terminal that was hooked into the ship's computer backbone, say on the Bridge, or in the Crew Lounge, or in Engineering, or even in her quarters.  She'd also have to jack in to the audio stream, so that she could alert the other crew if something went wrong with the systems she was supposed to monitor.