Amazing, we hit our mark.
Radiation folks are removing the source and once the coast is clear, facility folks will start to disconnect some of the enclosure panels.
8am we will have the morning tag up. We will go through our list of things to do.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye. - 2001 A Space Odyssey
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Spacecraft Power Down @ 5:00am 11/25
We're powered off. Hope to open the door sometime between 2pm-5pm today.
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
Orson Welles
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
Orson Welles
Could start back fill @6:30am 11/25
Charles predicts we could start to backfill the chamber by 6:30am. After about an hour, we should be at 200 torr, and ready to re-establish the external purge (7:30am).
What next?
After we have recovered from the sim, thermal will tell the facility folks to bring the shroud to ambient. It should take about 2 hours or so to get the shroud to above 0 deg. Once the shroud reaches zero, we can power down the spacecraft. All console support, except thermal is excused.
It should take about 9-12 hours to get the chamber to the point where we can open the door. So door opening could happen around 2p-5p on 11/25. We will try to get the source out and start panel removal if we have time.
We will have an 8am on Wed.
“"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."” - Winnie the Pooh
It should take about 9-12 hours to get the chamber to the point where we can open the door. So door opening could happen around 2p-5p on 11/25. We will try to get the source out and start panel removal if we have time.
We will have an 8am on Wed.
“"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."” - Winnie the Pooh
TC-90: Orbiting around the moon @1:33am
Sim 17: LOI burn started at 1:13am (real time). Orbit capture occurred at 1:33am.
LOI sequence ran smoothly. Good job!
LOI sequence ran smoothly. Good job!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Sim 17 started
Sim 17 started at 2140. SIM 17 will be approximately 5 hours in duration . At 3.5 hous into the SIM The Insertion Burn will be preformed.
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
- Emo Phillips
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
- Emo Phillips
SIM 27 Complete
Sim 27 completed at 19:40. At this time we are configuring for SIM 17 which will simulate LOI-1 Maneuver and perform early mission activities.
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once"
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once"
3rd time is the charm Sim-27
Sim-27 started at ~1400 and is scheduled to run for 6 hours. GDS had a problem with the RW‘s and the current problem is the timing between GDS writes and FSW reads. The current problem as of this writing is not a show stopper. The timing is being tweaked as the simulation moves forward.
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet"
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet"
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