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Lab dinner at the ASBMR !!
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Winding down
We had a great party at the beach last night to celebrate the incredible work that the whole team has done. Most of the team headed home, and a few of us were in lab…packing up our supplies, equipment and specimens…the mood was sober as we all realized that soon we were headed home, back to our day jobs, away from the thrill and excitement of being at Kennedy Space Center ..of doing incredible science on the last shuttle flight. We have all met new colleagues that are now friends, having been through this intense experience together. We have so many folks to thank — the NASA staff were outstanding — Alex, Ramona, Michelle, Ashleigh, Satro, Joe…so helpful an professional. It was a real pleasure to work with them, and we could have not done it without them.
Sitting at the airport, reflecting on the amazing work our team did. Bioserve at UC Boulder, the teams from Amgen, and the University of North Carolina. Andrea, Travis, Laura, Jeff, Kelly, Hong Lin, Dave, Eric, Michael, Anthony, Rachel, Jordan, Chrissy. Ginger, Louis, and Ted. All working together to make this happen.
We head out separate ways, having done something incredible. We are excited to do more, to complete our assays, our studies in our own labs. Motivated to provide new knowledge to advance science and improve health. It’s all good.
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Busy day with ground controls
Busy day today…as we are studying the 30 ground controls. Team in full swing!
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Landing day!
What a day. We were up at 4:30 am to get to site for shuttle landing by 5:30 am. Heard the double sonic boom in the dark and saw a speck of tail as Atlantis landed at 5:56 am — 12 days and 18 hours after launch. We headed back to lab for team mtg at 7:30…and to our surprise, the mice arrived at ~7:50 am — a record-time removal from the shuttle bay. The mousetronauts looked very good— maybe a little wobbly from not being used to a gravity environment….but otherwise fine.
Great work by the whole team, including our collaborators from Seward Rutkove’s group — A very successful day in lab!!
Thankful for successful landing on time, and for 30 healthy mousetronauts
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Atlantis home safely!
We arrived at landing site on KSC at 5:30 to ready for landing. Dark and mosquito laden, we heard the double sonic boom and a few minutes later Atlantis fell out of the sky. It was so fast ! Now we are all back at lab waiting waiting waiting for mousetronauts to arrive. Team is ready to go! Excited and nervous, just want to get started with our work.
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Ready for landing
Another long day wrapping up details and getting everything ready for landing tomorrow. Fingers crossed for landing at 5:58 am. We will watch the landing then get back to lab and wait…
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Practice makes perfect
Today the entire team that is gathering specimens from this experiment came together for the first time…more than 45 different investigators ! Amazing. Thanks to the NASa biospecen sharing program to make all this great science possible. A long day of working put the kinks in the dissection flow so that everyone gets their tissue of interest, from the eyes to the tail (literally) in as efficient a manner as possible without compromising the primary science.
It went well and we are all set for landing (hopefully) on Thursday.
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Back in Florida, prepping, prepping
Arrived back in Cape Canaveral last night, been working with team all day to prepare the dissection flow, make sure all the specimen vials are labeled, and ready to go. With 45 different investigators getting tissues from these mice, it’s a bit complicated!
So far, weather looking good for a Florida landing…currently scheduled for 5:56 am on Thursday. We heard today that we might get the mice 2.5 hrs after landing…which is great news.
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Ground control to major mouse…
Hey, President Obama called the astronauts today. Wonder if he was checking on the mousetronauts??
Preparations for landing are going well, ready to reassemble team next week.
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