It sure seemed like a long day...
Jun. 5th, 2003 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe meeting this morning was long and tiring, as any meeting is that involves the "Q" word (quality). Viktor spelled me an hour into the proceedings and I picked the meeting back up about 45 minutes later. We got a copy of the minutes to translate into Russian a little while later, and Viktor split it up among the four of us (him, me, Olga, and Galina). Personally, I would not be surprised to see a substantial rewrite on the Russian side when they review it, for reasons I can't readily identify... it's just a gut feeling.
In any event, I put in a 9 hour day today and - if memory serves - I'm the on-call person starting in just a few minutes, although I expect to spend working hours at building 92A-50.
The launch is just about 28 hours away, and there's a meeting of the State Launch Commission in just under 20 hours. That meeting is held to officially hear the Russian version of "go for launch" from everyone involved in this lashup, at which point the Commission okays fueling and launch of the rocket.
I don't expect to get a heck of a lot of sleep tomorrow evening, as I'm working that meeting, and am expected to report to the "comm room" at 2 am on Saturday (at L-2 hours or so), where I will be during launch (scheduled for 4:15 am local time) and an hour afterward. I've been told I'll be providing a fairly low-key color commentary on the progress of the flight for broadcast, which is just fine by me. Then I expect to spend another few hours handling message traffic associated with the launch, up to about L+6.
I felt a touch of unease this evening, for the first time since arriving here. I don't know if it's some kind of "cabin fever" or what; in any event, a couple of people noticed it and asked me how I felt. It's hard to describe... I get the feeling that just about everyone around here is busy with something, while I'm sitting around hoping to find something interesting on the tube (we get satellite channels from Europe), or an interesting book in the makeshift library, or some people playing ping-pong, or something. Maybe I'm just tired.
In any event, I'm sure I'll feel better in the morning.
Cheers...
In any event, I put in a 9 hour day today and - if memory serves - I'm the on-call person starting in just a few minutes, although I expect to spend working hours at building 92A-50.
The launch is just about 28 hours away, and there's a meeting of the State Launch Commission in just under 20 hours. That meeting is held to officially hear the Russian version of "go for launch" from everyone involved in this lashup, at which point the Commission okays fueling and launch of the rocket.
I don't expect to get a heck of a lot of sleep tomorrow evening, as I'm working that meeting, and am expected to report to the "comm room" at 2 am on Saturday (at L-2 hours or so), where I will be during launch (scheduled for 4:15 am local time) and an hour afterward. I've been told I'll be providing a fairly low-key color commentary on the progress of the flight for broadcast, which is just fine by me. Then I expect to spend another few hours handling message traffic associated with the launch, up to about L+6.
I felt a touch of unease this evening, for the first time since arriving here. I don't know if it's some kind of "cabin fever" or what; in any event, a couple of people noticed it and asked me how I felt. It's hard to describe... I get the feeling that just about everyone around here is busy with something, while I'm sitting around hoping to find something interesting on the tube (we get satellite channels from Europe), or an interesting book in the makeshift library, or some people playing ping-pong, or something. Maybe I'm just tired.
In any event, I'm sure I'll feel better in the morning.
Cheers...
