100 days to launch! Yes, I know… yesterday’s logbook was L-102: what’s going on?
No, the launch date has not changed, it’s still on November 24th. But at 1:57am Baikonur local time!
That means that it will be the evening of November 23rd in Europe, which is home to me, my family and a great part of my friends. It will be early afternoon in the US and late evening in Moscow. And it will even be November 23rd on the Space Station, which operates on GMT.
Even more importantly, when we will get up in the morning (late morning) of November 23rd, it will effectively be launch day! Our last night on Earth for six months will be behind us and we’ll only go back to sleep for a short nap in the afternoon, before embarking on our great adventure. Considering all that, I decided that today is L-100!
Can’t wait to go back to Baikonur and get ready to fly to space. The team down there is already working on our Soyuz ship: you can see a lot of them in the picture, taken a few minutes after the Exp 40 crew (Max, Reid and Alex) had waved us good bye from launch pad stairs last May. Next time we will not be in the picture. Or maybe we will, if they will include the top of the rocket!
More picture from our backup-crew time in Baikonur are here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrosamantha/sets/72157644330297400/
Futura mission website (Italian): Avamposto42
avamposto42.esa.int
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://spacetux.org/cpamoa/category/traductions/logbook-samantha/
(Trad ES – Currently not updated) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
15/08/2014