Thursday, September 11, 2008

Commander Colin

Today was totally sweet: I got to sit in the commander's chair in space shuttle Discovery! Here's my pic:

Commander Colin


Our mission requires two shuttles to be prepared and ready to launch (one is backup). The Discovery is not being used for the mission and is in preliminary checkout phases which means nerds like me can go crawl around inside it. I also took a quick video of the inside:




Next week we will load our payload in the 'can' which drives out to the pad. I'm going to take some pics inside our clean room to give a better idea of what's going into space.