Over the hump...
Oct. 15th, 2001 04:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI've noticed that any kind of middle-of-the-night work like this involves a low point during the night when you really, really, really want to sleep.
I had my episode about an hour and half ago.
We're about 20 minutes into the EVA. The ISS is flying over Africa as I write, and the ground track shows it will be going over Afghanistan (of all places) in about 20 minutes.
This photo was taken earlier in the shift, shortly before the laptop did the Spontaneous Reboot thing. That's me in the center of the frame, sitting at my console. On the left is Mark L., the fellow I've been working with the past week or so, and with whom I'll be working for the rest of my time here this trip.
We're just getting some video of the EVA crewmen outside the ISS. Both Dezhurov and Tyurin are wearing Orlan space suits, which resemble scaled down space vehicles more than anything else (you get into them by opening a door in the back of the unit). The suits are light brown, which sort of grates on my senses, as I'm used to seeing EVA crewmen doing their thing in white spacesuits (which is the color of the American EMUs).
The oncoming shift will arrive in about half and hour, and we get to skedaddle out of here half and hour after that. After we're dismissed, we'll have just over 18 hours to do anything we want before reporting back for tomorrow's shift.
(Geez, there are times, while doing this job, that I feel as if I'm back in the Marines.)
Cheers...
I had my episode about an hour and half ago.
We're about 20 minutes into the EVA. The ISS is flying over Africa as I write, and the ground track shows it will be going over Afghanistan (of all places) in about 20 minutes.
This photo was taken earlier in the shift, shortly before the laptop did the Spontaneous Reboot thing. That's me in the center of the frame, sitting at my console. On the left is Mark L., the fellow I've been working with the past week or so, and with whom I'll be working for the rest of my time here this trip.
We're just getting some video of the EVA crewmen outside the ISS. Both Dezhurov and Tyurin are wearing Orlan space suits, which resemble scaled down space vehicles more than anything else (you get into them by opening a door in the back of the unit). The suits are light brown, which sort of grates on my senses, as I'm used to seeing EVA crewmen doing their thing in white spacesuits (which is the color of the American EMUs).
The oncoming shift will arrive in about half and hour, and we get to skedaddle out of here half and hour after that. After we're dismissed, we'll have just over 18 hours to do anything we want before reporting back for tomorrow's shift.
(Geez, there are times, while doing this job, that I feel as if I'm back in the Marines.)
Cheers...
