Day 1: Launch
During his eleven days in space, Swedish ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang will, amongst other things, carry out two spacewalks and perform scientific experiments. Here he describes his entire mission.
ARHIVIRANA VSEBINA
22 DEC. 2006
Datum objave
1987
Ogledi
Homewards! We have started get everything in order for the landing. It will probably be tomorrow, but absolutely no later than Saturday. (Personally I do not mind another day!) The weather is uncertain, so we might even be landing in New Mexico.
It will be great to see my family again, but otherwise I would really like to stay longer in weightlessness and enjoy the fantastic view. I have been working out on the exercise bike for half an hour a day for the last three days. It might help a little after landing. Apart from that, we ‘fill up’ with water one hour before landing.
We have deployed three small satellite experiments. It went well from our side, but the last one did not seem to behave as expected when it was supposed to split up in to five parts after leaving the Shuttle. We only spotted four.
Today I saw Sweden again – an even better view than yesterday. We came as close as you can get.
Middeck has started to get everything in order: get up the seats and put the exercise bike away. Soon we will have the last press conference and in an hour the last e-mail download takes place.
So, here comes a last greeting from Discovery, STS-116 and space. It has been great and HELLO to everyone who has been following our adventure!
Medijsko okno
Day 2 & 3: Inspection & rendezvous
InspectionAfter eight hours sleep we are awakened by music transmitted from Ground Control. It is traditional to play special music in the morning for the crew, often music that the relatives of the crew have chosen.
Day 4: Spacewalk 1
The spacewalkThere are approximately four hours of preparation in the morning before the spacewalk, despite the fact that a whole lot is done the night before. The spacesuits are awkward to put on, or more accurately, to crawl into. It is important that the job is done carefully and several checks are carried out to make sure that nothing goes wrong.
Day 5: Solar panel
Retracting the solar panelFlight day 5, our second complete day on the ISS, we mostly spend moving things over from Discovery to the Station. Joanie is the logistics manager and checks meticulously that the equipment comes out of the SpaceHab in one piece and ends up where it should be on the ISS.
Deli to stran
ostanite obveščeni
Naročite se na naše e-novice in prejemajte najnovejše novice, posodobitve misij ter ekskluzivne vpoglede neposredno v svoj nabiralnik. Bodite med prvimi, ki izvedo za naše prihajajoče projekte in preboje.