Back at work in the MCC...
Feb. 9th, 2002 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe Ops Planner took pity on me toward the end of "yesterday's" shift and let me go home a half hour early, since even if the Form 24 arrived as I was packing my stuff, there'd have been little opportunity to translate it in time for me to get out on time.
As it was, I got home just ahead of the rush, cooked and ate some dinner, took a hot shower, and tried to go to sleep. I am not at all sure I ever did achieve full-blown sleep, but that's a moot point, now. I got up at 11:15 pm, pulled on some clothes and hied myself back to JSC for what promises to be a stimulating eight hours.
Assuming, of course, that I can manage to drink enough coffee. :^)
I'm set up in a room inside a complex that's generically referred to as the Moscow Support Room (or MSR) just a hop, step, and jump from the blue Flight Control Room. It's where representatives of major Russian subcontractors and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (a.k.a. Rosaviakosmos) maintain a presence for the purpose of supporting the U.S. side of this lashup here in Houston.
At first glance, the place doesn't look all that different from the rest of the consoles I've worked at in this building (nor is there any reason it should look different); a second look reveals there to be a lot of signs and labels in Cyrillic in evidence, which is what you'd expect.
Anyway, the night is young and I'm off to get more coffee and familiarize myself with my work "home" for the next week.
Cheers...
As it was, I got home just ahead of the rush, cooked and ate some dinner, took a hot shower, and tried to go to sleep. I am not at all sure I ever did achieve full-blown sleep, but that's a moot point, now. I got up at 11:15 pm, pulled on some clothes and hied myself back to JSC for what promises to be a stimulating eight hours.
Assuming, of course, that I can manage to drink enough coffee. :^)
I'm set up in a room inside a complex that's generically referred to as the Moscow Support Room (or MSR) just a hop, step, and jump from the blue Flight Control Room. It's where representatives of major Russian subcontractors and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (a.k.a. Rosaviakosmos) maintain a presence for the purpose of supporting the U.S. side of this lashup here in Houston.
At first glance, the place doesn't look all that different from the rest of the consoles I've worked at in this building (nor is there any reason it should look different); a second look reveals there to be a lot of signs and labels in Cyrillic in evidence, which is what you'd expect.
Anyway, the night is young and I'm off to get more coffee and familiarize myself with my work "home" for the next week.
Cheers...
