This morning I backseated a sim with Marc, and he let me / made me take the last run in the hot seat. It was my first official run and… I didn’t crash the shuttle! Hurrah!
Thankfully it was a pretty calm run, relatively speaking. (Or at least relative to the 3rd run which featured an SSME stuck in the bucket, then drifting, then out behind a data path, then another engine out, a progressively increasing Item 9 dump, TAL, a manifold fail, chasing throttles, and a mass update!)
Anyway, on my run: there was a hot bucket (but everything updated as it should), BFS engaged in first stage (so I had to check IYs based on the yaw rate), an OMS engine failed (but before OMS assist so there was no delta OMS), and the center SSME suffered hydraulic lockup around 5:00 (but no drift). The right engine went out as well, but only a bit ahead of MECO so there was no real impact to the ARD.
And if you just understood all that and know what to do, congratulations, you can be an ARD! Heh. I really just wanted to write it all down to see how it sounded. Sounds like Greek, eh? Scary that I am actually starting to understand.
In other news, I just spent $850 on a plane ticket to South America! Patagonia here I come. 🙂
Continent hopper…
wow. that is a lot of money.
Sarah- What exactly do you do for NASA/JPL/JSC?
hmmm, I know what OMS, SSME and ARD mean/are, but that is about it 🙂
Congrats, Sarah.
I know what you said, but I wouldn’t have the foggiest what to do about it. Guess that’s why they make me work Orbit.
That is all the tickets for your trip cost? That is less than what the Peru plane ticket ran for me. And the ticket to Ecuador is 1,100.00.
Dang!
Yeah, that’s just to go to-from Buenos Aires and Santiago. We’re going to spend another $400ish to get to Patagonia. Agreed, my Ecuador ticket was more expensive, but I figure I paid a premium for holiday travel.
You lost me at backseated and sim, but it sounds interesting….
patagonia?! awesome. I wanna go to Patagonia!
You think they might have a 5K on the schedule there?