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alexpgpI should probably take comfort that, in a way, I am.
During yesterday's museum visit, the lady from the Khrunichev security office who accompanied our little group pointed out a poster-sized photo mounted on the wall behind a model of the Proton-M launch vehicle, which is the vehicle used to launch our campaign satellites:
Looking just a bit more closely at that photo, in the lower right-hand corner:
Is yours truly, wearing the "Indiana Jones" hat that I wore on these campaigns up to about2006 2007, which narrows down the possibilities, but I truly don't recall what campaign the photo commemorates.
Cheers...
UPDATE: Another campaigner in the photo,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kirik, says it was taken during the April 2007 "verticalization" of the launch vehicle that took the Anik F3 satellite into orbit.
Apropos of Proton launches, the vehicle that was rolled out a few days ago, carrying a Russian GLONASS navigation satellite, is scheduled to lift off tomorrow from a pad just a few kilometers away at 8:34 tomorrow morning. We're all planning to be out of our hotel rooms and at "the office" a few clicks down the road by 6:30 am. I'm looking forward to seeing a Proton launch!
During yesterday's museum visit, the lady from the Khrunichev security office who accompanied our little group pointed out a poster-sized photo mounted on the wall behind a model of the Proton-M launch vehicle, which is the vehicle used to launch our campaign satellites:
Looking just a bit more closely at that photo, in the lower right-hand corner:
Is yours truly, wearing the "Indiana Jones" hat that I wore on these campaigns up to about
Cheers...
UPDATE: Another campaigner in the photo,
kirik, says it was taken during the April 2007 "verticalization" of the launch vehicle that took the Anik F3 satellite into orbit.Apropos of Proton launches, the vehicle that was rolled out a few days ago, carrying a Russian GLONASS navigation satellite, is scheduled to lift off tomorrow from a pad just a few kilometers away at 8:34 tomorrow morning. We're all planning to be out of our hotel rooms and at "the office" a few clicks down the road by 6:30 am. I'm looking forward to seeing a Proton launch!
