fpeebles said:HEHEHEH that was great, I was listening to NASA TV in the background just now and they played "Good Day Sunshine" by the Beetles as their wake up call. Sorry just thought that was hilarious. One heck of a sound system.
Paul again thanks to everybody at NASA for their efforts. This is the first time I have ever watched a Shuttle mission so closely (OK maybe obsessively) but your guys are all truly incredible and you all make me very proud to be an American.
BTW how do they go about adjusting their body's clocks to this schedule? A 2 am wake up call is strange. Are they working off GMT and if so why? Is it because of the link up with the ISS so everything is GMT? I have traveled a lot internationally for business and with that kind of jet lag it would be very hard to be a the top of my game and I'm not 200miles up in space.
Thanks again.
I can empathize. I wake up at about 0500 GMT every day - and I have for years! (of course, that's about 0700 local)Ironflight said:..And of course, we have MCC running 24/7, so at least ONE team works overnight...and this time, it's me....
AlexPeterson said:So I'm watching NASA TV last night (yes, I've been watching it for a long time, hopeless space junky) and there was Paul. He cleans up pretty well for an RV builder. I was missing the VAF baseball cap, though. You need to sneak one into the camera's view somehow.
Keep up the great work!
rv8ch said:I keep watching NASA TV, but they keep showing shots of the space shuttle and space station, ignoring the real action in the MCC.
With all those people monitoring the astronauts, do they get any private time at all up there, or are all their "movements" monitored closely? I've only been wondering this since the 60s...
About the soft drinks - I'm pretty amazed about that experiment. I would think that with all the money we spend on those missions that we'd want the people up there in top form. Are they sent up with junk food? Seems strange!
Alex said:Paul: Congratulations on a successful mission!
otterhunter2 said:Great Job,
Watched it live on NASA TV. Really was impressed with the live HUD view in the descent (really a 10 degree dive),