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MAY
09-05-01 - Launch - 13 days and Counting. Launch month! We are almost there.
09-05-02 - Launch - 12 days and Counting. All quiet on the Herschel front
09-05-03 - Launch - 11 days and Counting. This was the archtypal lazy Sunday
09-05-04 - Launch - 10 days and Counting. Woke up during the night with a bad headache
09-05-06 - Launch - 8 days and Counting. In other circumstances I might have spent another day at home but ...
09-05-07 - Launch - 7 days and Counting. The stress level is rising
09-05-09 - Launch - 5 days and Counting. The last weekend
09-05-11 - Launch - 3 days and Counting. Launch week!
09-05-12 - Launch - 2 days and Counting.We are getting regular updates from Kourou.
09-05-13 - Launch - 1 days and Counting. It’s tomorrow!
09-05-14 - Launch day. What a day! Everything went perfectly. Absolutely perfectly.
09-05-15 - Day 1. After the strong emotions of yesterday this was a much quieter day
09-05-16 - Day 2. It is hard to believe that we are actually in space
09-05-17 - Day 3.Things continue to be quiet
09-05-18 - Day 4. Things continue to be relatively quiet in terms of problems.
09-05-19 - Day 5. Today has been a good day for Herschel
09-05-20 - Day 6. Another good day of solid progress with several big highlights for us
09-05-22 - Day 8. Today I was not meant to be working
09-05-23 - Day 9. This was a quite quiet, although very successful day for Herschel
09-05-24 - Day 10. What a difference a day makes.
09-05-25 - Day 11. Today has been a quiet day.
09-05-27 - Day 13. Astonishingly, this is all becoming routine
09-05-28 - Day 14. Today was a long and tiring day.
09-05-29 - Day 15.Friday. Hooray!
09-05-30 - Day 16. So much for taking my bicycle to the workshop yesterday evening
09-05-31 - Day 17. It was too good to last