The clocks went forward in the early hours of Sunday morning so we’re now running on British Summertime rather than GMT, although summer still seems a way off just yet.
It’s been a long week of late shifts and I’ve been prioritising my sleep over staying up late after work. But even though I’ve been getting in a good amount of sleep each night I’ve still been feeling tired when I eventually rise from my pit each morning.
At least I’ve only got one more late shift to go until my rest days, which, this week are Wednesday and Thursday.
I don’t have much of any significance planned for my days off other than watching the Atemis II launch, which, at the time of writing has a targeted launch time of 18:24 EDT (23:24 BST) on Wednesday. Then I’ll likely continue to follow the mission in real time on the NASA website.
As there is no currently agreed Coordinated Lunar Time on the moon, the mission will likely operate on Universal Coordinated Time, so that’s BST+1 for us Brits.
Instead of wearing my Omega Speedmaster, which I’ll save for the actual Lunar landing, for this mission I’m going to be wearing my ‘Mission to the Moon’ MoonSwatch. Hopefully, the Artemis II crew won’t need to use their Speedmasters like the Apollo 13 crew had to back in 1970.
Godspeed, you steely-eyed missile people.