Pigboy [Still Tweaking the Hubble]
>>Well, I heard the Hubble got fixed...excellent news. Can't Jim work on the stock instead? :-) <<
Pigboy-
I had the opportunity to use the Hubble Telescope. First, since no one had scheduled time on the Hubble during the repairs, I suggested it would be a great time to perform a White Balance of the Camera, while the Hubble is pointed towards earth, we can use the bright white clouds of Earth as White Balance..... While waiting for the perfect range of clouds, I used the Hubble to Focus in on Amati Central.
Though I could not hear the conversation going on in the parking lot, I had a perfect view of the Paperwork laid out on top of a Porsche, where the two men where pointing at it. From what I could surmise and In My HUBBLE Opinion for the near term the Countdown Clock is just passing T-444:00:00 (hr:min:sec).. Back on the Loading Dock I saw many people, well I say people, they looked more like GOLD MEN, perhaps the Sunset made their appearance look that way. These GOLD MEN were unloading trucks, and wheeling SACHS of something into Amati. Perhaps Amati is planning on automating their their production floor too, as I saw other trucks with the name Robotics R US in the loading dock area too, though I can't be sure on the name on the trucks, my perfect focus I had set on the Hubble lens, faded as the Astronauts jiggled the Hubble while using it as a hand hold for positioning themselves. At one point I thought I had lost Amati completely, I thought I was focused in on a bakery, as the truck I saw arriving had the word Crisco on it. The Hubble engineers kept telling me over and over, that I could not rely on what I see because the Hubble was designed to look at objects in the far distance, as in billions of miles and I was only 370 miles above my target. I thanked them for the opportunity of allowing me to peer into the near future, instead of the Hubbles original intention of looking deep into the past, at the early beginnings of time, in the Universe.
They Scrubbed the ATLAS launch yesterday for weather (Winds) and looks like we will try today, double-time Darn.... If it does not go today, then we will be there on Monday a Holiday, double-time 1/2, Double Darn..... Guess it's time to buy some Calls.
Got to go get some sleep, it will be a long week...
I hope Pat is enjoying her weekend away from the keyboard.... I wish I could join her for lunch! I could use a view of the Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill to relax and rekindle my Amati patience.
T-443:05:00
JW@KSC
PS I tried using the Hubble to focus in on Globespan but there was some DMT interference :
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