Soothing Voices
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tourmalineSo yesterday was the first full day of STS-124. And the start of the usual routine - the wake-up calls - I've been and bought Day 2's wake-up music from iTunes. And both Day 2 and Day 3 the "Good Morning, Discovery" was voiced by Shannon Lucid - she's old enough to be the mother of several of the crew, when I realised it was her doing the announcement I immediately thought it's like when you're a kid and your mother comes in to wake you up for school. Only no-one on the shuttle whines at her to go away.
Another CAPCOM for this mission is Nick Patrick, I heard him yesterday while I was watching NASA TV. It was odd at first, it took a moment to twig that he had an English accent. He's a naturalised American citizen, but he's from Yorkshire and has a light public school accent, very comforting I thought.
NASA have lots of hi-res pictures, so I made an icon of Discovery during launch. You can snag it if you like. Later today the Shuttle is due to dock with the ISS. And hopefully they can get their lav fixed :)
Another CAPCOM for this mission is Nick Patrick, I heard him yesterday while I was watching NASA TV. It was odd at first, it took a moment to twig that he had an English accent. He's a naturalised American citizen, but he's from Yorkshire and has a light public school accent, very comforting I thought.
NASA have lots of hi-res pictures, so I made an icon of Discovery during launch. You can snag it if you like. Later today the Shuttle is due to dock with the ISS. And hopefully they can get their lav fixed :)
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Date: 2008-06-02 09:04 pm (UTC)What's STS-124?
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Date: 2008-06-02 09:52 pm (UTC)STS = Space Transportation System - official name for the shuttle system. Current mission is No.124 - they're mostly, but not completely, in consecutive numerical order.
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Date: 2008-06-03 10:05 pm (UTC)124! I had no idea there had been so many.
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Date: 2008-06-03 01:27 am (UTC):D
We were following the shuttle and the Mars Phoenix mission. cool stuff!
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Date: 2008-06-03 06:53 am (UTC)*blows a kiss to Josh*
Keep watching NASA TV! :)