Our first science flight will be tomorrow. We will be intercepting an Arctic storm as it approaches the Oden icebreaker ship. Unfortunately for us, the timing of the interception puts us at a 7:00 pm local departure from Kiruna. The missions are 10 hours so we'll return at 5:00 am. So much for getting over jetlag-- that makes our flight all night long through the wee hours in Kiruna and... 11 am to 9 pm Colorado time.
We're all quite tired, but I have some good photos to upload when I can get a chance-- When we get back at 5:00 am Wednesday morning we have a de-briefing meeting then we can sleep for 6 hours or so until we need to get ready for the next flight planning meeting at 4:00 pm Wednesday night, because we'll need to run a follow-up flight on Thursday for a 9:00 am departure. We'll have Friday off most likely (unless an instrument has broken) and our third flight will be on Saturday which looks like it will also be 9:00 am.
Whew... bedtime.
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