Today is the 10th birthday of the ISS, Happy Birthday to our own man-made star! On Nov 20th, 1998 (when I was still in college) the first element of the ISS launched which was the FGB (a.k.a. Functional Cargo Block in english, a.k.a. Zarya in PR speak) from the Baikonour Casmodrome. The first element was little more than some basic avionics and some large gas tanks, but all the same you have to start somewhere. Here is a picture of the ISS today (or rather Sunday when the Orbiter arrived) and I marked the FGB so you know just how much we've grown.
Also, here is a picture of me on console from Monday. I may look busy in this photo, but don't be fooled, we are very good at posing for the photographer! In our world, boredom is a good thing because it means all our planning and work up front is right and nothing has yet broken. So I'll take boredom on console any day and hope someone else is too for IM or email.
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