LIVE: STS-124 Flight Day 10 - JEM RMS final deploy/brake checkout

[chksix]

My wife understands Japanese but she gave a bogus translation that can't be repeated here

(apparently a few toilet questions, looking at the earth from space and about living on the station in general among a lot of things about Kibo)

I guess a S/G 3 channel for Kibo and the Japanese will have to be activated in the future...

Lucky that the guys and gal are in zero g, they can't nod off!

[chksix]

That was a great exit! LOL

They all got sucked up through the hatch!

(Was that Fossum's idea?)

[jmjawors]

I miss the days when the Russian media participated in this event.  Neither here nor there, I guess.

*shrug*

[chksix]

Indeed Matt. The Russians are being left out mostly during PAO events. Just two questions today for example (from US media).

A bit sad really and might be blamed on Putin but I don't want to get political here...

[Fuji]

It's interesting.
Aki sleeped in the kibo module every day!

[Chris Bergin]

[DavidChapman]

It's interesting.
Aki sleeped in the kibo module every day!

Which begs the question, can visiting shuttle crew members sleep anywhere on the ISS (where there is no rack)? What are the guidelines here?

[jmjawors]

Which begs the question, can visiting shuttle crew members sleep anywhere on the ISS (where there is no rack)? What are the guidelines here?

That seems to be the trend.  Every once in a while MCC will direct crew members to NOT sleep in certain places, which to me implies that normally they can sleep wherever they like.

[Fuji]

It's interesting.
Aki sleeped in the kibo module every day!

Which begs the question, can visiting shuttle crew members sleep anywhere on the ISS (where there is no rack)? What are the guidelines here?

It's Japanese media session. (I'm Japanese.)
Now window side is his favorite place.

Shuttle crew can choice the sleeping place. But I don't know the guidelines.

[jmjawors]

Indeed Matt. The Russians are being left out mostly during PAO events. Just two questions today for example (from US media).

A bit sad really and might be blamed on Putin but I don't want to get political here...

No.... most likely more of a logistical issue.  What time is it in Moscow now, anyway?   

[DaveS]

It's interesting.
Aki sleeped in the kibo module every day!

Which begs the question, can visiting shuttle crew members sleep anywhere on the ISS (where there is no rack)? What are the guidelines here?

Pretty much. Here's a list of Christer Fuglesang's sleeping locations duringv the docked STS-116 mission:

FD3/4: Quest airlock, Crew-lock section(EVA-1)
FD4/5: Progress docked to aft SM port(Radiation concerns due to solar flare)
FD5/6: Quest airlock, Crew-lock section(EVA-2)
FD6/7: Pirs DC-1
FD7/8: Pirs DC-1
FD8/9: Pirs DC-1
FD9/10: Quest airlock, Crew-lock section(EVA-4)
FD10/11: Discovery airlock(Prep for undocking on FD11)

[Chris Bergin]

Yes, it would have been well after midnight Moscow time.

[Bubbinski]

I thought shuttle crews were supposed to sleep on the shuttle, and ISS crews were supposed to sleep on ISS just in case of an emergency that required a quick undocking.  Didn't they follow that practice during the shuttle-Mir missions?

[Chris Bergin]

MSB coming up. Discovery's very well behaved, so there shouldn't be any surprises.

And related to the smooth mission, we're going to publish (within an hour or so) a long article reviewing the DAT findings (inspections) and what would have been required had they of needed a LON (as it's interesting).

[Life_Support_32]

I thought shuttle crews were supposed to sleep on the shuttle, and ISS crews were supposed to sleep on ISS just in case of an emergency that required a quick undocking.  Didn't they follow that practice during the shuttle-Mir missions?

As with a lot of things, it's up to the Commander of each vehicle where people sleep.  Some commanders are ok with people sleeping on the ISS (nicer since it's not as crowded in the shuttle and lower CO2 levels) and some commanders want everybody sleeping on their own side of the hatch (for the reason you mentioned). 

[Chris Bergin]

Big article on DAT clearing Discovery's TPS via several brilliant presentations (on L2) - Chris Gebhardt wrote the DAT element.
Plus what would have been required in the event of a LON call-up:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5445

[pm1823]

Indeed Matt. The Russians are being left out mostly during PAO events. Just two questions today for example (from US media).

A bit sad really and might be blamed on Putin but I don't want to get political here...

Blame Perminov and his press-secretariat, russian media present in TsUP only on VIP events, holidays, and on Soyuz launch\landing events, or if there's some emergency situation on ISS, like was when comps were down. They knows nothing about the other regular events. Certainly, they do direct asking interview with cosmonaut, but it's rare event - such interviews with all-known boring Q&A don't make rating, let's be clear.