#Microblog Monday 397: The People Above Us
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I found a fun site that tells you how many people are in outer space at any given time. Hint: the answer doesn’t change much from day to day, but it’s still fun to check it every once in a while, waiting for the number to go up or down.
What does change are the number of days a person has been in space. It’s fun to take the number, Google the date by typing something such as “229 days ago,” and having Google deliver the date. And then looking in my datebook to see what I was doing on that day. On the day that Zhai Zhigang went into space, my friend, Christine, sent me goat milk caramels.
What were you doing?
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That’s a cool site. On Zhai Zhigang’s first day in space, I had coffee and a catch up with my friend Anne at a favourite Italian cafe.
That is a neat site, but it doesn’t seem like it has updated recently.
Three US astronauts listed came back on May 6, 2022. There are 4 new US astronauts on the ISS now with the three Russian cosmonauts.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html
That’s so neat! Are the hundreds of days consecutive, or are they the total number of days that person has been in space? On Zhai Zhigang’s first day in space, I was teaching on a Monday… my calendar looks totally empty, which is WEIRD!