CRITICAL THINKING
THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION
Morgan and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir conduct research operations inside the Japanese Kibo lab module’s Life Sciences Glovebox in November 2019. The Expedition 61 flight engineers were studying mice for the Rodent Research-14 investigation, which observes how microgravity affects the body on a cellular and organ level.
team leader, team player and member of a team,” he said.
“A big part of what makes this mission work at NASA is that everybody contrib- utes,” McClain explained. “But everybody also is ready to step back and take the lead from the person next to them. It’s kind of this constant movement between being a leader and a follower, and you really have to step away from any ego.”
Tat collaborative attitude is what makes everything work—on the ground, in flight and on the ISS. Much like the overarch- ing acquisition process, space exploration needs all of its metaphorical moving parts to work together as seamlessly as possible to achieve the mission: Shuttles must be
designed, bought and tested; flight crews trained; scientific experiments planned for and taught to the crew; ground staff prepared for the mission; and of course—the exciting part for us outside observers—the rocket launch. An untold amount of work goes into that achieve- ment (much like delivering a new piece of equipment to Soldiers) and these collab- orations reach global proportions, now more than ever.
“Tis is an extremely exciting time for space on many levels. We’re seeing that we’re at what’s described as an inflection point here,” Morgan said. Te inflection point has three parts: civil space, which is national space programs like in NASA or the European Space Agency; commercial
space, as with SpaceX and Boeing and other companies that “put hardware into low-Earth orbit;” and finally, defense space—specifically, the United States Space Force. “All of these things coming together is great for … space exploration,” he said. “We’re really looking at an excit- ing decade ahead.”
She recalled one of her
spacewalks,holding on to the ISS by a handrail and looking down at the blue and green orb of Earth.
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