Hi everyone
In this image from NASA TV, the crew on the International Space Station has a light moment during a news conference as spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari, center front, answers a question Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. Front from left: Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Ansari and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin. In the back flight engineer Jeffrey Williams, flight engineer Thomas Reiter and Commander Pavel Vinogradov. (AP Photo/NASA TV
انوشه انصاری و وبلاگ نويسی در ايستگاه فضايي بين المللی
Filed under: Space Explorer — Anousheh @ 11:57 pm
Hi everyone,
It is about 11:30 GMT here on ISS. It looks like my first entry from space made it down there.. Amazing, isn’t it…?
So first let’s take care of a few housekeeping items… I do not have realtime access to email. The email process is a batch process so it happens three times a day. I will do my best to get at least one entry in per day.
I get all teary eyed when I read how a young girl in Mashhad is watching me and is motivated to one day become an Astronaut.
I know all of you will realize your dreams, if you want it bad enough in your heart and are willing to work hard and sacrifice for it. I will be reading every single one of your messages personally, when I return… So please continue to write to me.
Now that we have taken care of that, let’s talk about the ride up here, as I promised…
Well I took a motion sickness pill on the launch pad which was great. When we got to orbit I felt fine and I was able to look out the window as the world kept spinning around us, or more correctly I should say, we spun around the world.
They usually say you should not do that the first day because it will make you sick. Well… I just couldn’t resist…
I felt fine and even had some crackers and cookies for dinner before I went to bed. Our time was shifted back so we were basically scheduled to go to sleep about 6 pm and wake up about 3:00 am.
The first night we were all so tired that going to sleep early was no problem. Ah! I forgot to mention… when the Soyuz is put in orbit to chase the space station, it spins on its axis the whole time. The trip to the station takes close to 48 hours…
http://spaceblog.xprize.org
http://www.anoushehansari.com
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html
