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The two astronauts, American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin, whose trip to the Space Station had to be aborted when their booster came apart during ascent have been rescheduled to go up again at the end of February. Accompanying them will be another American astronaut, Christina Koch.

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status...6537581568

Here's an excellent animation of the Soyuz going bad and the in-flight abort successfully occurring. (Not a test this time.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocn7aLqEq-Q

(Dec 10, 2018 03:35 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]The two astronauts, American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin, whose trip to the Space Station had to be aborted when their booster came apart during ascent have been rescheduled to go up again at the end of February. Accompanying them will be another American astronaut, Christina Koch.

And Christina Koch is still up there after almost a year!

https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina

Don't forget her, NASA! Let her come back...

Their Christmas video

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status...4477742081

Christina says that they went all the way to space to get away from Fruitcake, but it didn't work since a supply flight sent some up anyway. Their Christmas stockings are kind of cute, hung up with care... on nothing... floating in weightlessness.

Christina watching football (while wearing an Eagles t-shirt!) on a Space Station TV, (I think that they watch movies on it too.)



Here's Christina with Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano after they baked some cookies (apparently the little thing in the specimen bag is one of them, probably to be returned since Earth wants to know how well food preparation like baking works in space).

I like how astronauts' hair fluffs up in zero-G. (Luca doesn't have to worry about that.)

(Jan 6, 2020 01:46 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Here's an excellent animation of the Soyuz going bad and the in-flight abort successfully occurring. (Not a test this time.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocn7aLqEq-Q

(Dec 10, 2018 03:35 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]The two astronauts, American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin, whose trip to the Space Station had to be aborted when their booster came apart during ascent have been rescheduled to go up again at the end of February. Accompanying them will be another American astronaut, Christina Koch.

And Christina Koch is still up there after almost a year!

https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina

Don't forget her, NASA! Let her come back...

Their Christmas video

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status...4477742081

Christina says that they went all the way to space to get away from Fruitcake, but it didn't work since a supply flight sent some up anyway. Their Christmas stockings are kind of cute, hung up with care... on nothing... floating in weightlessness.

Christina watching football (while wearing an Eagles t-shirt!) on a Space Station TV, (I think that they watch movies on it too.)



Here's Christina with Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano after they baked some cookies (apparently the little thing in the specimen bag is one of them, probably to be returned since Earth wants to know how well food preparation like baking works in space).

I like how astronauts' hair fluffs up in zero-G. (Luca doesn't have to worry about that.)

Quote:baking works in space).

space ship made of bread ...
begal space stations ...
self repairing walls ...

(Jan 6, 2020 01:46 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]And Christina Koch is still up there after almost a year!

https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina

Don't forget her, NASA! Let her come back...

NASA has finally remembered that they left Christina up there a year ago and she's scheduled to return Feb 6. On a Soyuz capsule, to Kazakhstan.

Meanwhile she's been busy. They've all been continuing with the battery swap-out that began months ago. They've all been doing it, in shifts. Here's Christina outside wrestling with giant batteries. (They are weightless but still have mass and momentum.)

Christina's back! She landed safely in Kazakhstan

(Feb 6, 2020 09:11 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Christina's back! She landed safely in Kazakhstan

Seems to have acclimated quickly to the gravity.

(Feb 8, 2020 03:56 AM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]

(Feb 6, 2020 09:11 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Christina's back! She landed safely in Kazakhstan

Seems to have acclimated quickly to the gravity.

Yeah, she's doing really well. A year in zero gravity is a long time. I see in your photo that Ann McClain has her hand on Christina's arm and I'm guessing the woman on the other side is supporting Christina's other arm. So Christina might still be unsteady on her feet. Her muscles are probably unfamiliar with gravity and her inner ear balance organs must be all confused.

I think that NASA was thinking about longer duration spaceflights to Mars and points even further away (like Jupiter). They've already tested males on yearlong space missions and they obviously wanted to try out females as well. And Christina pulled it off like a champ, even doing heavy physical labor on a space-walk right before she returned.

Way to go Christina! I like her. She has kind of an appealing girl-geek thing going with her glasses and her engineering degrees.

(Feb 8, 2020 10:58 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, she's doing really well. A year in zero gravity is a long time. I see in your photo that Ann McClain has her hand on Christina's arm and I'm guessing the woman on the other side is supporting Christina's other arm. So Christina might still be unsteady on her feet. Her muscles are probably unfamiliar with gravity and her inner ear balance organs must be all confused.

I think that NASA was thinking about longer duration spaceflights to Mars and points even further away (like Jupiter). They've already tested males on yearlong space missions and they obviously wanted to try out females as well. And Christina pulled it off like a champ, even doing heavy physical labor on a space-walk right before she returned.

Way to go Christina! I like her. She has kind of an appealing girl-geek thing going with her glasses and her engineering degrees.

It did her good to be up there. She looked a bit too conventional and mundane in her prior photos, on Earth. Looks way, way-out now, even with the spacesuit off.

Christina being greeted by her dog at her home in Galveston after her year in space. (Seven dog years.) They never forget you.

https://twitter.com/Astro_Christina/stat...8165352449

Several news outlets are saying that Christina's dog is named... 'Little Brown Dog' Reportedly they call it 'LBD' for short. Christina can't help it. She's an engineer!

Extensive interview with Christina - All the details: her early life, college (at North Carolina State, BSEE and MSEE), her early attraction to physics and her transfer into engineering because she likes working with her hands and designing things, her work in Antarctica, her job with NOAA in American Samoa, how she met her husband and took up surfing, how she found out that she had been accepted into the astronauts, moving to Houston, living in Russia training with Roscosmos, lots of stuff. Christina's had an extraordinary life. I think that all the astronauts can say that, it's the kind of person that NASA looks for. Some of the other astronauts say that when NASA sends the first woman to the Moon, it oughta be Christina.

https://issfanclub.eu/2019/03/12/nasa-as...astronaut/

(Feb 14, 2020 10:50 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]Some of the other astronauts say that when NASA sends the first woman to the Moon, it oughta be Christina.

Peggy Whitson went into space at age 56, so Christina may have a shot even if the politicians kill Artemis and delay a moon landing for over a decade. With the usual unexpected tacked on, it certainly wouldn't be by 2028 any more than the planned Artemis program landing will happen in 2024.