Hard to believe that I just watched that launch yesterday morning and right now, Terry is already asleep after his second day in space. WOW! I'm still amazed. Shortly after liftoff, Bob and Kay jumped out of their seats to film and take photos of the external tank as it fell back to Earth. Terry and Zambo stayed in their seats for a while to monitor all the shuttle systems and configure everything for orbit. If you saw Terry's interview, he commented that he actually has to fly 3 different types of spacecraft when he flies the shuttle. So at that point, he transitioned Endeavour from a rocket to a spaceship. The crew then began removing and storing their bulky orange suits, ate their fresh sandwiches and hurried off to initialize many systems. Terry's job was to get all the TV and video equipment going and if you listened to the audio loop, you heard that they had some problems with the equipment. He had to find and install several backup cables and backup systems before they could get a good downlink but now everything is rocking and rolling. They crew went to bed just 7 hours after liftoff and that was Day 1. A good way for me to visualize it was to draw a line down the middle of each day on my calendar and write DAY 1,2, etc across the lines. Well I couldn't finish off my fist day without a photo, thankfully Terry got things working just in time for me to get one photo of his first day in space. I think he looks pretty happy!
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