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I was tapped a couple of days ago to come in a couple of hours early today and cover the space-to-ground slot for Mike T. while he went to a previously set dentist's appointment. Ever the conscientious nerd (or maybe I just like to know what I'm in for later in the day), I happened to open the radiogram inbox for the day and almost choked on what passes for coffee at the MCC: 16 radiograms!
What I didn't find out until Mike got back was that Olga D., who is the "early" shift person doing the Execute Package, also had a doctor's appointment for today, and that the radiograms arrived while she was out. In the end, she was able to do the Form 24 radiograms and one other short document before the end of her work day at 2 pm.
Fortunately, some of the remaining incoming documents already were in English (mostly having to do with the work being done by André Kuipers, the ESA astronaut who went up with the ISS-9 crew and who'll come down with the ISS-8 crew), but not enough to make me breathe easier. I translated two radiograms and took them downstairs to have Alex A. check them over. While he was checking, I managed to knock off three more radiograms. And while he was checking those three, I did one more... then another. This marathon came to an end just as it was time for Alex to go home.
Eventually, with the help of Cyril F., who's working in the Moscow Support Room, I was able to empty the inbox.
If the pattern of the past few days holds, tomorrow's work will consist of no more than 4 radiograms, and most of them will be translated by the time I show up for work. Moreover, if the pattern holds until Sunday, there'll be more than a dozen items on that day. We'll see.
* * * Time recently has pretty much completely been taken up with work, so much so that I can hardly write about anything else.
I miss Drew and Shannon and Huntur.
Cheers...
What I didn't find out until Mike got back was that Olga D., who is the "early" shift person doing the Execute Package, also had a doctor's appointment for today, and that the radiograms arrived while she was out. In the end, she was able to do the Form 24 radiograms and one other short document before the end of her work day at 2 pm.
Fortunately, some of the remaining incoming documents already were in English (mostly having to do with the work being done by André Kuipers, the ESA astronaut who went up with the ISS-9 crew and who'll come down with the ISS-8 crew), but not enough to make me breathe easier. I translated two radiograms and took them downstairs to have Alex A. check them over. While he was checking, I managed to knock off three more radiograms. And while he was checking those three, I did one more... then another. This marathon came to an end just as it was time for Alex to go home.
Eventually, with the help of Cyril F., who's working in the Moscow Support Room, I was able to empty the inbox.
If the pattern of the past few days holds, tomorrow's work will consist of no more than 4 radiograms, and most of them will be translated by the time I show up for work. Moreover, if the pattern holds until Sunday, there'll be more than a dozen items on that day. We'll see.
I miss Drew and Shannon and Huntur.
Cheers...
