Author Topic: LIVE: STS-124 Flight Day 10 - JEM RMS final deploy/brake checkout (Read 34942 times)

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #40 on:** 06/09/2008 04:37 pm »

Quote from: eeergo on 06/09/2008 04:34 pm

"It looks big, it looks like a flag, but it is not"

Creative Navias

Beat me to it!

"That's no flag, it's a space station (thermal blanket wire tab)"

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #41 on:** 06/09/2008 04:44 pm »

PAO Rob is on form! (On the BCMs) "They look like jewellery boxes....you'd have in a safe deposit box....................in a bank"

It was much funnier over the feed!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #42 on:** 06/09/2008 04:49 pm »

They aren't concered by the thermal blanket tab that's popped up on a wire during JEM RMS ops.

Orbit 1 to Orbit 2 at MCC-H.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #43 on:** 06/09/2008 05:13 pm »

Mark Kelly and Mike Fossum have begun the R&R work on the BCMs (x2).

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #44 on:** 06/09/2008 05:58 pm »

Go to open hatch between JPM and JLP Module (for further outfitting).

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #45 on:** 06/09/2008 06:01 pm »

Mark Kelly still busy with the BCMs it appears..

DavidChapman · « **Reply #46 on:** 06/09/2008 06:18 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 06/09/2008 06:01 pm

Mark Kelly still busy with the BCMs it appears..

I'm surprised this isn't the kind of task that can't be performed without disconnecting the entire rack and going in through the back. It seems to me one of the original design considerations for such a system would be easy swap out of front facing modules.

eeergo · « **Reply #47 on:** 06/09/2008 07:01 pm »

Kelly appears to have finished work with the BCM (aka bank safebox!), as he's closing the panel behind the rack (not with a PGT, but a regular drill) and was talking with MCC-H about powering it up before rotating the rack back into position. They have done so now, and the newly configured BCM appears to be working nominally inside the Avionics Rack inside Quest, so they're go to install it back.

Continuing work in JEM meanwhile:

SpaceNutz SA · « **Reply #48 on:** 06/09/2008 07:18 pm »

Quote from: Moonbase_Alphan on 06/09/2008 01:30 pm

Quote from: SpaceNutz SA on 06/09/2008 01:18 pm
Quote from: Moonbase_Alphan on 06/09/2008 11:21 am
here's a pic taken through a Kibo portal
That's definately one for the desktop!!
let me know if you'd like a hi-rez version, as I have access to the hi-rez files for all of the photos I've been posting

Yes Please - I tried to look it up on the NASA Gallery using the serial number of the photo - no luck.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #49 on:** 06/09/2008 07:50 pm »

Next event will be the joint crew news conference.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #50 on:** 06/09/2008 08:29 pm »

Garrett's got a bag full of OGS items, and is showing the camera for the Huntsville people.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #51 on:** 06/09/2008 08:33 pm »

Back in the JPM:

30 minutes to joint news conference.

DavidChapman · « **Reply #52 on:** 06/09/2008 08:35 pm »

Interesting that the Russia-Spain soccer match worked it's way into the Russian tagup.

The interpreter sounded particularly cheerful today.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #53 on:** 06/09/2008 08:47 pm »

Quote from: DavidChapman on 06/09/2008 08:35 pm

Interesting that the Russia-Spain soccer match worked it's way into the Russian tagup. The interpreter sounded particularly cheerful today.

Be thankful there's no Italians onboard, as they'd be heading for the airlock after being destroyed by the Dutch in an amazing footballing masterclass just now. Ironically, I think the last time a result was passed up on the loop was when Italy won the World Cup. (STS-121?)

15 mins to the PAO event.

eeergo · « **Reply #54 on:** 06/09/2008 08:54 pm »

Putting flags for the conference (if it was tomorrow, there should be a Spanish flag in place of the Russian

):

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #55 on:** 06/09/2008 09:04 pm »

Event on.

eeergo · « **Reply #56 on:** 06/09/2008 09:12 pm »

Promoting HDTV, interesting!

Asking how well do the astronauts think high definition captures the feeling of real visuals of space.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #57 on:** 06/09/2008 09:16 pm »

Bill Harwood asks about the SARJs.

"There's no similarities between the starboard and port SARJs. It's just a fine, powder like, particles on the port. Nothing like the starboard side."

chksix · « **Reply #58 on:** 06/09/2008 09:17 pm »

Good question about the SARJ.
I also liked the one about sleeping in space and the one about Buzz Lightyear and the future.
It's definately just the beginning!

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #59 on:** 06/09/2008 09:23 pm »

The toilet questions soon became a thing of the past, thankfully!