Letters to Earth: Astronaut Don Pettit
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What Makes a Mission Name?
May 17, 2012 09:26:13 PM | Don Pettit
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- What space station crews call our "mission" is a bit more complicated than what you might think.
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The Pieces Come Together
Dec 22, 2011 12:18:27 PM | Don Pettit
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- Four days ago our rocket was in pieces, scattered across the floor of the assembly building. Like anxious parents checking on their sleeping children, we took one last peek inside our Soyuz spacecraft. Everything was tucked in where it should be.
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Me and My Spacesuit
Dec 22, 2011 12:09:49 PM | Don Pettit
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- Our Soyuz spacesuit is named after the Russian word for falcon: сокол (sokol). It serves only one purpose, to keep us alive in the event of a cockpit depressurization. We venture into a place that is devoid of nearly all matter–a vacuum. This vacuum is as vast as space itself, and in a flash will remove our life-sustaining vapors with no more perturbation than an 18-wheeler smashing a jackrabbit on Route 66. And the effect on your body would be about the same.
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A One-Way Ticket
Dec 22, 2011 11:48:32 AM | Don Pettit
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- Unlike my previous trips, this time I arrived in Russia on a one-way ticket. My bridge has been burned. And now I’m in Kazakhstan, awaiting our December 21 launch.
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