Blast from the past...

[alexpgp]

The recent past, that is.

A photo taken the night the spacecraft was unloaded has surfaced. It shows three pretty cold guys on the tarmac at Yubileinyi airfield.



I am the overstuffed humanoid on the right. The other two hooligans in the image are the project safety engineer and the launch operations manager.

If you look carefully at the image, you can see the Antonov An-134 in the background, and unless you realize just how far away we are from the aircraft, it looks like a lightweight puddle-jumper standing a few feet behind us. In reality, the bottom of the engines hanging off the wings are probably 15 feet from the concrete, and we are standing 30-40 yards from the plane.

* * *I've sent a fax to the store to make sure some money gets transferred into the proper accounts to make various payments "today." If I don't hear something back soon, I may send supplemental emails to Natalie and Galina, who should be back in Houston by now.

Tomorrow, I'm scheduled to go in to the office at 5:15 am, and am looking forward to the experience with a patience borne of having done this kind of stuff for a while. The good news is that I'll be finished for the day relatively early.

Time to go coordinate emails and get ready for bed.

Cheers...

Comments

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

It's a wonder you weren't mistaken for Sinter Klaas and shipped off to the North Pole..... but come to think about it, you were damn near there anyway, weren't you? Brave hooligans, all three of you!

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Attack of the Munchkins!

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

No kidding! The guy in the middle was wearing one of those face masks that looked like a cold-weather Hannibal Lecter fashion accessory!

Cheers...