Spiff
a nice pic I believe taken from the Soyuz looking towards Discovery.I'll post a hi-rez over in L2 later on.
Nice pic - is that Progress or Jules Verne in the foreground?
Anybody else that has any thoughts on this?
QuoteAnybody else that has any thoughts on this?Good point, but it's not an age issue, rather different psychological types.
Agreed, but the psychological type is (at least partly) created by Malenchenko being a product of the Soviet Union and Volkov/Kononenko being a product of modern Russia.
Quote from: Spiff on 06/11/2008 10:34 amAgreed, but the psychological type is (at least partly) created by Malenchenko being a product of the Soviet Union and Volkov/Kononenko being a product of modern Russia.PLEAASEEE, do not attribute all characteristic of Russian people to the socio-economic systems we were brought up. Actually this was the main idea of historical materialism, one of the key philoshophical ideas during comunist time. So Spiff is a real good student of this system! There were many Soviet cosmonauts who are great fun. And there are many introverts. Nothing to do with the system.
How long till sunlight?
'Ken Ham is using a steady hand at the stick, using less propellant than planned for the flyaround.'Amazing news!
Thanks for doing this, it just had to be this one time when my stream won't work :|
Quote from: adam on 06/11/2008 12:37 pmThanks for doing this, it just had to be this one time when my stream won't work :|A lot of us lost NASA TV. That's why Steven's been a star yet again on the live coverage.
I thought the solar panels were going to be feathered edge-on for undock to avoid shuttle burn contamination. That's not the way they look in the attached pictures, why is that?
Looking like they are scanning the nosecap, inspections started early?
Quote from: Ford Mustang on 06/11/2008 03:14 pmLooking like they are scanning the nosecap, inspections started early?it's the starboard inspections, and looking at the timeline it's pretty much on time
As it's still very quiet ahead of all the excitement later today I'm going to sneakily make a slightly OT post here. I noticed this mission that the interaction of Volkov and Kononenko with the American (and Japanese) crewmembers was very relaxed and easy going. Lots of smiling going on. Very good obviously. I didn't notice this at all during expedition 16 where Malenchenko always seemed to try to hide from the camera's and seemed to be busy with his own program. During expedition 15 I noticed that mainly Kotov was more like Volkov and Kononenko.
LOL "The purpose of any mission is to get a cool crew video and I think you've done very well on that"-CAPCOM Drew
Quote from: chksix on 06/11/2008 08:38 pmLOL "The purpose of any mission is to get a cool crew video and I think you've done very well on that"-CAPCOM DrewNow I really hope that someone got a recording of this. None of that footage made it into the flight day highlights package.
Quote from: Spiff on 06/11/2008 08:25 amAs it's still very quiet ahead of all the excitement later today I'm going to sneakily make a slightly OT post here. I noticed this mission that the interaction of Volkov and Kononenko with the American (and Japanese) crewmembers was very relaxed and easy going. Lots of smiling going on. Very good obviously. I didn't notice this at all during expedition 16 where Malenchenko always seemed to try to hide from the camera's and seemed to be busy with his own program. During expedition 15 I noticed that mainly Kotov was more like Volkov and Kononenko.It has a LOT to do with fluency. The younger folks are much better at English. Fyodor was very relaxed and involved in US PAO events, but Oleg was just more at ease with better English.
Quote from: erioladastra on 06/11/2008 10:06 pmQuote from: Spiff on 06/11/2008 08:25 amAs it's still very quiet ahead of all the excitement later today I'm going to sneakily make a slightly OT post here. I noticed this mission that the interaction of Volkov and Kononenko with the American (and Japanese) crewmembers was very relaxed and easy going. Lots of smiling going on. Very good obviously. I didn't notice this at all during expedition 16 where Malenchenko always seemed to try to hide from the camera's and seemed to be busy with his own program. During expedition 15 I noticed that mainly Kotov was more like Volkov and Kononenko.It has a LOT to do with fluency. The younger folks are much better at English. Fyodor was very relaxed and involved in US PAO events, but Oleg was just more at ease with better English. Understand. Which begs the question: How fluent are the American ISS astronauts in the Russian language? Example: I remember a PAO event during Exp 16/17 change where a Russian Journalist asked Peggy Whitson a question, and she had to look at Volkov first for some translations. Of course this could have been just to check, or, it was harder to understand over the radio, or it was an accent that she wasn't familiar with, or whatever. But I'm just wondering.
