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tourmaline) wrote2010-04-09 06:07 pm
tourmaline) wrote2010-04-09 06:07 pm
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Discovery On My Desk
Day 99 I have Space Shuttle Discovery on my desk at work:
It was a Christmas gift in 2008, I got lots of space stuff that year as it was just a few months after I met some of the STS-124 crew, who had flown on Discovery. And of course Discovery is in orbit now. They've completed the first EVA, which I think went well. Unfortunately they are on a time zone par with Hong Kong or thereabouts, which means I don't get much of a chance to catch up with them, although I had a quick sneak look at NASA TV at work and saw Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson coming back into the airlock at the end of the EVA. I think they've given up on trying to resurrect the shuttle's Ku antenna, I hope we still get lots of pictures after the mission.
It was a Christmas gift in 2008, I got lots of space stuff that year as it was just a few months after I met some of the STS-124 crew, who had flown on Discovery. And of course Discovery is in orbit now. They've completed the first EVA, which I think went well. Unfortunately they are on a time zone par with Hong Kong or thereabouts, which means I don't get much of a chance to catch up with them, although I had a quick sneak look at NASA TV at work and saw Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson coming back into the airlock at the end of the EVA. I think they've given up on trying to resurrect the shuttle's Ku antenna, I hope we still get lots of pictures after the mission.