• Question: How long do you work for the station a day?

    Asked by #Monkanaut Twin to Alex, Andrew, Delma, Julia, Simon on 7 Dec 2015. This question was also asked by cakeking.
    • Photo: Delma Childers

      Delma Childers answered on 7 Dec 2015:

      I’ll be sending an experiment to the ISS at some point, but dealing with the station isn’t part of my day-to-day activities. I’m sure it takes up a lot of Simon’s time, though! 🙂

    • Photo: Andrew Winnard

      Andrew Winnard answered on 7 Dec 2015:

      You can find out all about the inernational space station at this awesome link: http://isslive.com/ If the live streams are online you can see the crews daily timelines and check out what they are up too!

      Standard crew day:
      06:00 AM – Crew wake. Clean up, eat, read news and messages uplinked overnight.
      07:30 AM – Morning Daily Planning Conference (DPC). Astronauts and Cosmonauts sync up with Houston, Huntsville, Munich, Tskuba, and Moscow before executing their day.
      07:55 AM – Work prep, review procedures and gather stowage to support the day’s activities.
      08:15 AM – Crew available work time. Science experiments, preventative and corrective maintenance, visiting vehicle preparations, stowage operations, environment sampling (acoustics, surfaces, water), public affairs events, misc medical tasks including daily 2.5 hrs of exercise.
      01:00 PM – Lunch
      02:00 PM – Crew available work time (see above).
      06:15 PM – Evening work prep, review procedures and timeline for next day.
      07:05 PM – Evening DPC. Discuss comments/questions about the day executed. Brief highlight for changes to tomorrow’s plan (if required).
      07:30 PM – Dinner, relax, email, organize images for downlink, watch a movie, look at Earth!
      09:30 PM – Crew Sleep (8.5 hrs)

    • Photo: Alexander Finch

      Alexander Finch answered on 8 Dec 2015:

      None at all for me – although I work in space, I don’t work on the space station project. I’d love to, and many of the technologies and ideas are the same for satellites and space stations. After all, the space station is just one huge satellite with people inside it!

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