Answer the question.
I'll understand if you aren't able to take us. It is tough work keeping us all informed about space shuttles and Michigan football.
Answer the question.
I'll understand if you aren't able to take us. It is tough work keeping us all informed about space shuttles and Michigan football.
But mostly my job is keeping Gutz in line in the political threads.
Its amazing the boners these guys from NASA get over a screw fitting or light switch working.
Hans sighted in the Airlock withe O2(Oxygen) mask on! It looks like Hansie has recovered from his ear infection and will make an EVA2 appearance.
ESA was really kind of disappointed that it wasn't him readying Columbus for docking to the ISS, but he helped a lot from inside..(I heard a lot of "Dos is goot" from him during EVA1). Now he will go outside and do some more stuff that needs to be done out there.
Good for Hansie.
BTW...the commisioning of Columbus continued today and was ahead of schedge.
The Shuttle and ISS see about 16 or something sunrises every day. Orbital sunrise happens every 90 minutes.
Hansie out in space. Dos is goot.
Hansie must be completely over his ear ache. He was on the successful spacewalk yesterday and has been busy as a bee working on the Columbus module today.
They work inside today, then out in space one more time tommorow. Then I think they come back on in a couple of days or something.
I like listening to Hansie and the controller guy in Germany talk back and forth. Heavy friggin Cherman agscents ya.
The controller guy is in uberhoffenhoven or something like that.
edit.. or Inglehoffenhoven.
Love and Walheim already on straight oxygen preparing for tommorows spacewalk. They will camp out in the Airlock tonight at a reduced pressure of 10lbs psi. Their space suits are around 4lbs psi, iirc.
I have no idea what the vacuum of space pressure, or vacuum is. someone, anyone???
I did hear that if there was a little hole in their spaces suits, that they would get sucked out of that little hole into space.
In orbit where the Space Shuttle flies, it's not exactly "zero" atmospheric pressure, like you'd see in deep space, but it's close. At sea level, you've got about 14.7 pounds per square inch of pressure on you at all times, meaning that you're fighting off around a ton every moment of your life. It's yet another requirement us humans have in order to stay alive. Take away a significant portion of that, and you're in deep shit. A lot of places on Earth are uninhabitable just because the air pressure is too low.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahoe
Thanks Swam. I was watching this am when the opened the door at about .1lbs psi. So it couldn't really be a vacuum.
Anyway, Stanley Love and Rex Walheim went out on EVA3 this am, the last of the spaces walks with the shuttle crew. They are still attaching some outside experiements on the European Columbus module. And doing some other things.
If they have time they will get to the SARJ situation that has been fucking with these guys for months now.
This Rex Walheim is prolly a nice guy and everything like that, but he's kind of bossy. He acts like he is John Glen or some fucking thing. Hansie will prolly set his ass straight when they get back on earth.
The crew undocks on Tues(?) and comes home on Wed(?). Then the Pentagon can shoot that satellite down.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING RIGHT NOW?
Transitioning from thier pre-sleep routine to a full on fucking doze.
1 minute to anwer that question... :)
The shuttle crew says goodbye to the ISS tommorow. They close the hatch roughly at noon Sunday. I think they undock on Monday or something. Then for some reason it takes them 2 days to get home. The Russians can get home in a 3 hours. It takes us, 2 days.
The hatch was closed today. They sleep still docked to the ISS. They take off tommorow and make a circle or 2 around the ISS and take some pics of it. Then land on Wed ish.
Hansie is back with us. The Shuttle landed this AM.
Pretty amazing really, they said the other day that the Shuttle would land at 6:07 and it landed at 6:07. Not sure how they do that with all those deorbit burns for 2mins 44 secs or something and the sweeping turns to slow their speed down. it landed right on time.
And now I can get some work done!
Endeavor is about to take off. Y'all are lucky...you'll get more of my updates. :)