STS-115
I haven’t done a good space post in a while. As you may or may not know, the first major piece of the space station to be taken up in three years is being installed right now. The schedule for bringing pieces to the station has of course had to be drastically adjusted, however, even under the new schedule, most of the original experiments will end up being run, just much much later than expected. One thing I haven’t seen before is that NASA TV is running live video of the space walk. Astronaut cam footage of Dan Burbank Canadian Steve MacLean climbing around on the truss gives you a good sense of just how huge this thing is. Also lets you appreciate how hard it is to do construction work when your tools have a tendency to float away. If you don’t have access to a viewer, you can still get live text updates.
September 15th, 2006 at 13:04
Thanks for the NASA TV link — every time there is a mission, I forget where it is.
I enjoyed watching today. La la la, gloves, la la, install, torque, la la, SUDDEN GIANT EARTH!!!11!!111
September 18th, 2006 at 15:33
Sudden Giant Earth(TM) is a very happy making thing. I was especially fond of then they were looking at the other guy doing something and giant earth was in the background. Gives you a real sense of perspective on just how huge this thing is.