Moving along...
Aug. 11th, 2008 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI must have misheard Viktor yesterday, because I ended up going in at 9 am to support the start of moving racks of satellite support equipment to the vault, only to find that the instruction applied to Alex P., and that I was supposed to stand by at the hotel and wait to be picked up. So I waited for the call to go accompany the crew doing vault acceptance, which never came. The karma balance came when I happily stumbled across a French-English dictionary of aerospace terms in the desk nearest the window. Lots of good stuff there.
The highlight of the afternoon was my actually accomplishing a one hour walk on the treadmill. Feeling positively virtuous, I joined some of the guys, including the campaign's doctor, in the sauna, and survived the 90°C temperature inside the wood-lined room (at 90°C, water will boil merrily in our kitchen in Pagosa Springs, where it is 7700-plus feet above sea level). Afterward, we drank tea, and then I called it a night.
There's more equipment going out to the pad tomorrow, and I'm on the hook to support that operation. A "go" for upper stage propellant loading is expected by the end of the day tomorrow, and a Space Forces unit will do that job on Wednesday and Thursday. A government commission will meet on Thursday night to decide on a go/no-go for rolling the integrated launch vehicle to the pad on Friday morning (two other jobs I'm tagged for).
The peak of the Perseids is scheduled for tomorrow night. Visibility ought to be pretty good after 2 am, after the moon sets, and by that time, our part of the earth will be facing more squarely "head on" to any debris in the path of our planet's motion. I'll have to scour the net for more details tomorrow, when I have some time.
Cheers...
The highlight of the afternoon was my actually accomplishing a one hour walk on the treadmill. Feeling positively virtuous, I joined some of the guys, including the campaign's doctor, in the sauna, and survived the 90°C temperature inside the wood-lined room (at 90°C, water will boil merrily in our kitchen in Pagosa Springs, where it is 7700-plus feet above sea level). Afterward, we drank tea, and then I called it a night.
There's more equipment going out to the pad tomorrow, and I'm on the hook to support that operation. A "go" for upper stage propellant loading is expected by the end of the day tomorrow, and a Space Forces unit will do that job on Wednesday and Thursday. A government commission will meet on Thursday night to decide on a go/no-go for rolling the integrated launch vehicle to the pad on Friday morning (two other jobs I'm tagged for).
The peak of the Perseids is scheduled for tomorrow night. Visibility ought to be pretty good after 2 am, after the moon sets, and by that time, our part of the earth will be facing more squarely "head on" to any debris in the path of our planet's motion. I'll have to scour the net for more details tomorrow, when I have some time.
Cheers...
