Console-a-go-go

Tonight is my first shift on console for the 1J (STS-124) mission, the very same one I watched launch live from FL. So in a small way its pretty cool to go from watching to working the flight.

But I also realized that it was during the last mission, 1J/A, I started this blog. Do you sense a trend on how busy we are on-console if here I am again making blog entries? But in this business, especially in the MER, not busy = good, busy = bad, very busy/not sleeping = OMG. Just to pass the milestones between flights some quick ISS (mostly GNC) statistics since this blog started 77 days ago:

-ISS has completed 1,312 orbits of the earth
-Each CMG has made approximately 731,808,000 revolutions for a total of 2,927,232,000 by all four (they don't appear so frail when you look it it like this)
-The mass of the ISS has increased by 14,187kg (the Japanese Experiment Module), or 26,768kg if you count the JEM and the Autonomous Transfer Vehicle (which will depart in Sept)
-We have lost attitude control zero times.
-The RS has burned through 1614.7kg of propellant, of which, 544kg was used just for 29P docking.
-Peggy Whitson (Expedition 16 Commander) broke the record for cumulative time in space for ANY American (not just a woman) with 377 days when she returned home on April 16th. She was also the first female ISS commander, to much the...umm... we'll call it good "humour" by our Russian colleagues who don't find that quite as neat as me.