Cryo operations have hit a bit of a hiccup. Team cryo has been patiently but frantically dealing with an ice plug (nitrogen ice, or maybe water/oil/crud). Meanwhile, lots of little jobs are happening to make Spider more flight-like. And yesterday, we all got our NASA crane safety training.
Unhappy bug
Probably a bad insecticide trip. Also Bill's new avatar in the group chat
Fourier Transform Spectrometer
Anne's been setting it up in the other highbay
Anne and Jon play with it a little.
The moving mirror moves
Space invader
Sasha connects housekeeping on Theo
Jamil connects housekeeping too
Housekeeping on Theo
Flight like!
Barth's back
And he's arranging computer boxes
Cryo trouble
Team Cryo has been dealing with ice plug(s) recently
Proposed final computer arrangement
Becky doing science
Aligning the rotating polarized source
Using diffraction of a laser in the polarizing grid, and a plumb bob
Further science
Cup of water to damp the bob's oscillations, and protect from wind
Anne makes a motorized valve control box
And laughs at how easily I'm amused by people doing "boring things" (hole drilling pun not intended)
Field trip
Over to the rigging shop for crane safety training
Parachute
Set up inside rigging
Parachute and wiring
After having completed our safety presentation and written test
Ziggy prepares for safety
And crossfire?
Alec was our instructor
He guides us through a crane checkout back in our highbay
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