お祝いの言葉 (Congratulations)!

Written by Bob McCormick on 6/17/2008 09:31:00 AM

A big congratulations to our Japanese partners now, for both a successful 1J/A and 1J mission!

I worked a lot on 1JA but not much on 1J ... and this was a good thing, since I was a "Team 4" (reserve) member for the 1J mission.

Everything was successfully installed over both of these flights, including (among other things)...

1JA:

- the new Robotic equipment

- A successful tile repair test onorbit



1J:

- Installation, activation, and ingress of Kibo (the Japanese Lab), and the Japanese Robotic Arm

- Fixed the Toilet

I didn't work much on the mission, but I went on console after the Shuttle undock. One interesting thing that happened was the Japanese Earthquake. The epicenter wasn't really close to Japan's Mission Control, but they called us & told us about it during the earthquake. They felt its affects, but nothing was damaged at Mission Control.

As for the follow-on flights - first, NASA will have to fix the launch pad. Discovery's latest launch revealed quite a bit of damage post-flight (I've seen the pictures - bricks were blown throughout the "outfield" of the pad, into the fence (knocking it over somewhat), and into the lagoon beyond it! There was about 10-15 feet of bricks missing from the flame trench as a result.

And as another side note: My own toilet needed repairs over the weekend. You can see my handiwork below. Am I now qualified to go to ISS!?! ;*)





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