• Question: What do you do with your team

    Asked by Pang to Col Op on 19 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Columbus Operations

      Columbus Operations answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      Hi Pang,

      Good question! I am a Columbus Flight Director. I, and the other flight directors like me, get to coordinate all the operations that ESA does on-board the ISS. I am a bit like a conductor of an orchestra in an opera house. but instead of musicians and singers, I have ground operators and astronauts. And instead of an opera house, we have a big control room with computers and video screens and instead of making music, we do experiments or we help the crew fix things. Instead of a musical score we follow the timeline.

      Do you play a musical instrument?

      Simon (Col Ops)

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