• I could've done it better.
• Neither Seth nor Sarah nor myself were require to go up with the payload, thankfully. That task has fallen to Dr Baldman, because apparently he's actually had NASA training. Well, he's certainly old enough.
• The main purpose of the Larger Hadron Collider is to study the limitations and the validity of the standard model, ( Read more... )

• Work on the habitat module is going very well, but as I have informed Dr Bickley and Dr Sofer: there is no way on the green and blue earth I am going to be the one going up there as the payload scientist. No way in the entire solar system. No, thank you.
• Soviet cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko was killed when a fire started in the pure-oxygen ( Read more... )

My lab will be working on a habitat module for the next Soyuz or Aurora class craft for ExoMars. Good news! At least I think so. Very exciting. We may get a zero-g simulator in the next week or so.

How is everyone?

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The geekoid will get his journal back when he sleeps and eats. Until then, it is mine.