More Testing

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

I'm almost getting into a routine now, sleeping at the normal time. It's a short walk from the room to the integration building after eating breakfast (cereal) in my room. There's a full kitchen on my floor, but I've only used the regrigerator (for milk). Lunch is at noon and dinner is at 6pm. So far, the meals in the base cafeteria have been very good.

Here's a view from my temporary office, looking at the ULDB payload. Today, I checked out the prototype CAP and got the ground-support laptop ready to go. During the flight, I can send commands and view the results both through the main radio links or through NASA's TDRSS satellite, or through the Iridium satellite system as a backup.

Instead of eating at the base cafeteria, 7 of us drove into Kiruna (30-40 minute drive). We ended up at O'Leary's, an Irish-American pub/restaurant where I ordered Chinese food and paid in Swedish kronor. Sometime life is strange! Cost: $29US.