As of today, Butch and I are officially Columbus specialists!
Our training week finished this morning with an evaluation simulation in the Columbus mock-up. And in terms of Columbus systems training, this is it until flight. Except for a quick refresher of a couple of hours in the final months before launch, next time I’ll do any work on Columbus systems will be on the real flight hardware in space. Feels kind of strange, actually.
While we were running the simulation inside the mock-up, a lot was going on outside: the team here is getting ready to welcome a lot of visitors in little over a week. The European Astronaut Center will open its doors on September 22nd as part of a big open day of the entire German Aerospace Centre that we are co-located with.
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At EAC we’ll have tours of the training facilities throughout the day and a rich stage program. If you can make it to Cologne, we’re really looking forward to seeing you!
EAC
13/09/2013