Letters to Earth: Astronaut Don Pettit
- June 2012
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Going Home
Jun 29, 2012 10:53:48 AM | Don Pettit
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- When a frontier feels like home, it is no longer a frontier; it has become "civilization." Those determined to wander must now pack their bags and move further into the cosmos.
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Birth of a New Moon
Jun 28, 2012 12:55:20 PM | Don Pettit
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- I saw the waning crescent moon, a small sliver of white rising above the Earth limb.
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Carrying the Load
Jun 25, 2012 06:31:58 PM | Don Pettit
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- To maintain our muscles, bones, and cardiovascular systems, we exercise about two and a half hours each day.
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A Slice of Time Pie
Jun 22, 2012 04:44:40 PM | Don Pettit
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- If my day on Space Station were a pie, it would be sliced into many wedge-shaped slivers.
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Warm Regards
Jun 22, 2012 04:40:00 PM | Don Pettit
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- If Matisse and Van Gogh worked together to make a portrait of the Expedition 31 crew, this is what it might look like: Left to right in the first image are Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka, Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Revin, and André Kuipers (I was running the camera).
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Beating Stray Light
Jun 22, 2012 04:36:40 PM | Don Pettit
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- Stray light—those nasty reflections off our Space Station windows—can ruin the aesthetics of nighttime imagery and viewing.
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Black Spot
Jun 22, 2012 04:32:19 PM | Don Pettit
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- June 6 - Last night we observed a little black spot on the Sun. We stayed up all night to record this with our cameras.
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Teamwork
Jun 21, 2012 11:16:08 AM | Don Pettit
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- May 24 - Tomorrow we capture the Dragon. I can tell that Gardener is focused on that task.
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The Sun
Jun 19, 2012 04:32:20 PM | Don Pettit
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- May 16 - Gardener is practicing taking images of the Sun. He is preparing for the Transit of Venus on June 5th. He has a special filter covering the front of a long telephoto lens so his eyes are protected.
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Help for Sunflower
Jun 18, 2012 10:43:01 AM | Don Pettit
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- Today was the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower.
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Happy Sprout Day
Jun 15, 2012 10:30:30 AM | Don Pettit
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- April 12 - We got new aeroponic bags today. They are a new design, much simpler than the old ones.
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From Us to You
Jun 14, 2012 05:05:41 PM | Don Pettit
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- A couple of pictures of the present we left in Dragon just before we closed the hatch last month. Click on the images to see them larger.
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What Do Dragons Eat?
Jun 14, 2012 05:05:28 PM | Don Pettit
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- April 2 - Oh no, we have algae root! Our plastic potting bags, being transparent, allow our roots to be soaked in light.
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Last Day on Earth
Jun 11, 2012 12:23:34 PM | Don Pettit
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- Another space poem by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station.
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