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Creaking along...
Nov. 28th, 2003 04:55 pmIt took me a while to get back into the swing of things here with the Ops Planners. Alex K., who used to work this position pretty much regularly (and who hasn't done so since August), set up some pretty useful gimmicks to make life easier for the translator.
Today's "haul" consisted of five radiograms: two form 24s and some miscellaneous instructions touching upon various payloads and experiments. Sometimes I wonder which experiment I'd like to reserve all to myself should I somehow, magically, be included on a station crew.
Real crew members, of course, do not have this luxury, which is why they get to be the guinea pigs for just about every experiment you can imagine. The medical ones astound me, sometimes. I recall working a training session with Nikolai Budarin back in the Shuttle-Mir program, in which the astronaut was expected to wake up hourly during a sleep period and take a sample of his own blood. It was training sessions like that where I was glad I wasn't part of the crew.
If I had to pick my experiment, it'd probably be something like "Diatomea," which consists of a series of ocean observations, particularly for what are called "blooms" of plankton in various parts of the ocean, as well as odd surface phenomena and cloud formations. During part of an upcoming session, the crew will observe the ocean area roughly in the vicinity between the Bay of Bengal and the Java Sea to see if they can visually detect bioluminescent plankton in the water from space.
* * * Galina will be leaving for Colorado soon, either tomorrow or Sunday. I am not looking forward to the parting.
Cheers...
Today's "haul" consisted of five radiograms: two form 24s and some miscellaneous instructions touching upon various payloads and experiments. Sometimes I wonder which experiment I'd like to reserve all to myself should I somehow, magically, be included on a station crew.
Real crew members, of course, do not have this luxury, which is why they get to be the guinea pigs for just about every experiment you can imagine. The medical ones astound me, sometimes. I recall working a training session with Nikolai Budarin back in the Shuttle-Mir program, in which the astronaut was expected to wake up hourly during a sleep period and take a sample of his own blood. It was training sessions like that where I was glad I wasn't part of the crew.
If I had to pick my experiment, it'd probably be something like "Diatomea," which consists of a series of ocean observations, particularly for what are called "blooms" of plankton in various parts of the ocean, as well as odd surface phenomena and cloud formations. During part of an upcoming session, the crew will observe the ocean area roughly in the vicinity between the Bay of Bengal and the Java Sea to see if they can visually detect bioluminescent plankton in the water from space.
Cheers...
