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Some Space News September 15, 2005

Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise , add a comment

As I am the SpaceMom, I should include some space in here. My bosses are going away the last week of September for a meeting in Spain. So is Dr. Jay. So is one of my other team members, leaving Royce and Myself as the two remaining operations personnel for our instrument. My primary boss, Paul, is not good at being out of control. He keeps asking Royce and I “are you ok with this?” “If there is a problem, what will you do?” I swear, I want to throw him a bone and say “down, boy, down!”

The biggest issue with his issues with being out of control is that I DO start to doubt myself. I know I can do this job and it is not like I can put the spacecraft in safe mode by myself. I would have to make a mistake and several other people would have to miss that mistake.

My biggest worry is that I am the on-duty person on the 24th. Dr. Jay will be in Spain already and if something happens with the spacecraft, I will need to find someone to watch the girls while I deal. It should be ok since the honking sunspot of death will be on the far side of the sun by then.

I can do this. I am capable and I am good at what I do.


I wanted to share this great photo of Luna that Dr. Jay caught in Cleveland. Isn’t that beautiful?
I love how little kids can crouch like that….