Tag Archives: Expeditie 31

I still fit in my Soyuz seat

Sjouwtaken It has been busy again these last few days. Until the next crew arrives there are only three of us here. We have a normal workload so we are very busy. Working with just the three of us does have some positive side-effects. I have more room to move and I can plan my exercise and free time more easily. Communication with Earth is less hectic as well. The continuous talking can be irritating and tiresome as I have to always listen if they are talking to me. When six of us are up here we create a traffic jam to Huntsville or Houston. Less communication traffic makes it easier to sneak questions or reports in when I want to. (more...)

The best time lapse video and my daughters joke

Aurora In the last few months I was part of the Expedition 30 crew. We took over 250.000 pictures together documenting life on the Space Station, the Earth and visiting cargo ships. A large proportion of these pictures were converted to night-time time lapse videos of Earth and the universe. A typical video contains hundreds of pictures. Put a nice soundtrack to the video and the result is amazing. I saw a time lapse video that we made and I thought: I want to go there, I want to go to space! The images and the music made me think this funny thought. The videos look surrealistic with green and red northern lights and Earth moving rapidly. It looks even more beautiful than real life.


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