Archives for: February 2007

And we thought we were going to launch...

So, Mother Nature proved once again that she can send us to our room any time she wants. Her tool this time? A hail storm that threw golf ball sized chunks of ice at our space shuttle Atlantis, who was sitting pretty out on the pad. Noooooo! Not only… more »
Permalink 02/28/07 08:41:59 pm, by michelle Email , 190 words, Categories: News , Leave a comment »

Wow, I'm famous

Was checkin' out the NASA website this evening (yes, I do that at home, too), and look what I found: Here's a link This was taken during a lesson in which my crew (Expedition 15) practices the docking timeline, of which the actual docking is my r… more »
Permalink 02/25/07 10:07:14 pm, by travis Email , 78 words, Categories: News , 4 comments »

Darn time zones

The next Shuttle mission that I will be working is STS-122/1E. It's a neat mission, because we are taking up the first International Partner module, the European Space Agency's Columbus module. This module's primary purpose is to support all kinds of s… more »
Permalink 02/07/07 08:46:12 pm, by travis Email , 318 words, Categories: News , 1 comment »