Jul 23, 2004
I'm still getting checked out.
I'm still getting checked out. They're testing my vision, opening and closing valves, turning things on and off… basically, they making sure that everything is working together properly. So whenever they change something, they ask me to look at some x-rays and tell them what I see.
One of the most important parts of all of these tests is to simulate what it will be like when I'm in space. So they want everything cold and working just like it will on the satellite. Then they can be sure that things will be okay when I'm in orbit, and have some idea of what sort of data I'll be sending back to Earth.
Everything seems to be checking out okay… the scientists are happy, the engineers are running out of problems to solve, so life is good here!
