Saturday, June 21, 2003
A REPORT FROM ORBIT
[...first blogging in quite a while -- I've been busy.] Here's a report on a recent interview with the ISS crew. Lu and Malenchenko seem to be doing well as a two-person "caretaker" crew, and Lu continues to be a very entertaining fellow, explaining all the little things that he's had to figure out to play the keyboard that someone brought up to the station, given the lack of gravity. Lu makes some comments about the progress of NASA's investigation of the Columbia disaster, which have some poignancy, since he and Malenchenko are as exposed to the result of that investigation as anyone could be.
Meanwhile, the next two pressurized modules to be added to the station have been delivered to Florida for final processing before launch. NASA's going to continue building the station, of that I have no doubt. But I wish they'd please think hard about just how wasteful the current program is without making the kind of adjustments I've been blogging abouthere all summer.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:02 AM
