L-360: ATV evaluation simulations
Friday
17
5629/11/2013
A couple of successful evaluation simulations today for Sasha and myself at the European Astronaut Centre, dealing with all kinds of malfunctions during rendez-vous and dockin... Read more
Friday
17
5629/11/2013
A couple of successful evaluation simulations today for Sasha and myself at the European Astronaut Centre, dealing with all kinds of malfunctions during rendez-vous and dockin... Read more
Thursday
17
5928/11/2013
How does it look when you open the hatch of the Service Module hatch after ATV docking? Take a look at this picture from ISS Expedition 30: you have a front-seat view of the A... Read more
Wednesday
14
3227/11/2013
Another day of ATV training for Sasha and myself at the European Astronaut Centre. In the morning we had more practice with rendez-vous and docking malfunction. In the aftern... Read more
Tuesday
19
3526/11/2013
Sasha and I had another full day of ATV training today, starting with a lesson on docking system malfunctions. ATV uses a slightly modified version of the Russian docking sys... Read more
Monday
18
3225/11/2013
Back into the ATV* world with Sasha at the European Astronaut Centre here in Cologne. As the backup of Expedition 40, who will be on ISS for the most part of ATV5 mission, Sa... Read more
Sunday
11
0924/11/2013
It’s a big day! According to the current plan, the launch of our Soyuz TMA-15M will be on November 24th, 2014. Yes, if you noticed that I adjusted the math of the countdown, ... Read more
Saturday
15
3516/11/2013
Nice to be back home in Europe after an intense six-week training trip to Johnson Space Center. Although I certainly didn’t mind at all the mild Texas temperatures this time o... Read more
Thursday
15
5014/11/2013
When we monitor the approach of a visiting vehicle, like Dragon, Cygnus or HTV, we typically have three camera views set up at the robotic workstation. Since we use the Cupol... Read more
Wednesday
22
2913/11/2013
As I mentioned in yesterday’s Logbook, I had a chance yesterday to practice rendezvous and capture ops with crewmates Terry and Butch, probably the last time we get to do a ... Read more
Wednesday
00
3213/11/2013
Two long simulations today. In the morning it was Cygnus rendez-vous and capture day with Terry and Butch at the robotic workstation, mainly working through different malfunc... Read more