All the astronaut offices are on the top two floors of one of the newer buildings at JSC. I was…
Thanksgiving, Part 2
So, Becca ended up with an 18-pound turkey — for free! — from the grocery store. She didn’t actually cook…
Surprise!
Last night we drove over to the Haak Winery in Sante Fe for a surprise birthday party for Jose’s officemate…
Babies & Weekends
Last night we got to meet one of the two new babies! Eleanor was extremely tiny, extremely soft, and extremely…
New Babies!
Congratulations to Jen and Gavin! Baby Eleanor and baby Drake were born early this morning. Funny, we just had a…
Atlantis Departing
This morning at 3:53 a.m., Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station. They did a picture-perfect separation and flyaround, and…
New Moon
I squeezed more activity into my 6 hours of non-work, non-sleep time yesterday than I have on any other day….
Counting Down
One day, sixteen hours, and fifty four minutes until undocking… This morning around 7:30, I walked into the back room…
Oh Baby
Randy Bresnik, one of the STS-129 astronauts, is a dad! His wife gave birth to a girl, their second kid,…
Red Eye
The lack of sleep is starting to catch up with me. I’ve been averaging 6-6.5 hours per night for a…
Showtime, aka Rendezvous Day
The photographer walked in towards the end of Atlantis’s rendezvous with the International Space Station on Wednesday morning, and I…
The Mission Begins…
I’ve been MIA over the past week first because I was finishing up my preparations for STS-129, and then because…
