John and I are in Florida (as John said, didn't expect to be back here this soon) for the STS-126/ULF-2 Launch. I got an SFA award so it's a pretty nice semi-vacation to be here on the company. Last night we had the company banquet and actually received our framed certificate things, John said it went on forever and included thanks to the floor, the walls, and just about everything else for all their hard work. It wasn't that bad and we at least had a nice dinner with all the other 3 ISS Avionics and SW recipients, spouses, and the VP of the ISS.
Today was the tour of KSC. I've been on a tour previously, so much of it was something of a repeat but it was pretty nice. I didn't take a ton of pictures but the slide show covers everywhere we did go. We did get up pretty close to the pad with 126 on it and that was nice. The best part of this is that since I am the lead for my team for this flight, I've now seen the bird on the pad, may get to see the launch (cross your fingers for good weather tomorrow night), and then am going to make it home to work the docking shift Sunday. Not a normal occurrence to pull that off. Anyhoo, will post an update after the launch. I am really hoping this thing flies on time so we can see it and its a night launch so that should be really awesome to see.
P.S. The random seeming car picture in the middle of the show, isn't really. As we were going between two stops on the tour, we just happened to look over at the car waiting to turn and it held none other than "Spock" himself, Mike Griffen the NASA Administrator. I had the camera in my hand and just snapped one. Can't really see anything, so you'll just have to trust me on that one.
12 years ago
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So cool! Congrats by the way :)
If they can thank the walls and the floor, the least they can do is thank the coffee machine...that's what the space program really runs on. ;-)
Congratulations on the well deserved award!
Congrats on the award. I'm jealous - I really want to see a night launch sometime.
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