Yesterday I had my first full day of training at Johnson Space Center on this trip.
First I had a workout on the ARED to practice “weightlifting” on this peculiar machine. ARED stands for Advanced Resistive Exercise Device – I talked about it here, if you missed it.
A typical ARED workout consists of six exercises and crewmembers on ISS rotate through different routines. Yesterday, for example, we did squat, deadlift, romenian deadlift, heel raise, shoulder press and bent over row.
Later on the day I was introduced to Word Map software, which is loaded on many ISS laptops in support of Earth photography. Let’s say you want to take a picture of a particular location on Earth, for example a volcano: either by picking it on the map or by geographic coordinates you can create a “target” in World Map. The software can then calculate pass predictions for you: when will that target come in your field of view? how long will be the pass? will it be day or night? at what angle will you see it? As you can imagine, this is invaluable information for Earth Observation ops!
Finally I had a review class on fire emergency response, in preparation of a simulation scheduled for the upcoming weeks for Terry, Anton and myself. The focus was a relatively new software applications that helps in locating a fire hidden inside a rack, in identifying equipment that should be turned off and, if necessary, what fire port we should insert the fire extinguisher in.
The picture was taken during a previous fire emergency sim last year. The tool is a measurement device for combustion product concentration. (Picture: NASA)
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08/03/2014