Rob Drysdale

Sr. Program Manager Tweet about a variety of things esp. science, space &engineering. #CSATweetup #NASASocial #SocialSpace #SpaceUpEU

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

@RogersHelps Was there any notification about that? I don’t recall an email about it or I would have set it to record. The benefit of Rogers Xfinity was to have it all in one place with voice search. Now that’s gone

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

@RogersHelps @Craner123 I have the same problem where my On Demand content shows as either not available for free or only available on StackTV. Plus they are older shows. I reset my box and didn’t help. Did you remove this content? My package hasn’t changed

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

.@Enercare while we’re at it, if you want us all to create a new account and you have a dummy phone number for us why make us call to update it and not update it online. Annoying

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

Hey @Enercare if we have an appointment and the tech calls to ask to come early and I say I’m busy he should not say “I’m coming now”.

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

@CruiseNorwegian Plus the 1 pool is down for 2 days for maintenance. We found that out the week we left for Hawaii. One last thing - look carefully at the rooms - ones on Deck 10 don’t have a good view from the balcony

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

@CruiseNorwegian Disappointed we’re on the cruise that’s cut short by a day. We’re in Kauai today & would love to be here the 7th day, but we were cut to 6. Have to say the fee rebate for 1 day doesn’t make up for the experience & memories lost out on given the cost to get here #bucketlist

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

Hey @AirCanada why would my seat change as soon as I log in to the app? I had the seat I wanted on an aisle and when I opened the app I got a text my seat changed and move further back. Any idea? Not for a family as seats next to where I was are empty

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

.@CityofPickering any news on when the clock chimes at City Hall will be fixed? Sounds weird without that one chime working.

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

@RogersHelps Thanks very much. We’ll forward it along.

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

@RogersHelps I have an email from a [email protected] suggesting that the email will be shut off if we don’t accept the T&C’s. Is this a legit Rogers email?

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

I see #Ticketmaster is crashing again this morning. I wonder how many concerts all went on sale at the same time this morning. Just bad planning.

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

@GolfChannel @ROLEX @GolfChannel you really need to learn how social media works if you want to put all these tweets with short clips in them and then geo-block many of us

[Rick Mercer @rickmercer]

Retweet, share and like this amazing new Heritage minute. You have to - it’s a part of our heritage !

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

Anyone having trouble linking @SIRIUSXM to @alexa99? It stopped working a few days ago and says I need to link the accounts again but I get this message “you must update your SiriusXM app in order to enable this feature”. Both apps are already on the latest version

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

The pool with the moon tonight as well @ Barceló Bávaro Grand Resort https://t.co/OjAh4UqFjQ

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

On the walk to dinner tonight the moon is out and looks awesome. @ Barceló Bávaro Grand Resort https://t.co/P4rSNlbEry

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

Always feels like the trip down for vacation takes the whole day. The @airtransat ride down was good and it was nice to get here. The view of the pool last night.

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

Well @airtransat you win. 8 hours on a call. I did talk to someone at about the 6 hour mark & she put me on hold b/ she didn’t know how to do what I needed & came back a couple of times. Just flipped to a new queue somehow & giving up. I’m not booking anymore Transat vacations.

[Rob Drysdale @projmgr]

In the hell of being on hold on a call with @airtransat and it switched me to French after 2.5 hours on hold. The prisoner’s dilemma is do I hang up and select English and start over on hold or wait and potentially end up with a French only agent. Decisions. Decisions