• Question: Is there anything you think people wouldn't expect about your job?

    Asked by Imo to Anne, Beth, COLFlight, Jon, Tom on 7 Oct 2015.
    • Photo: Columbus Flight Directors

      Columbus Flight Directors answered on 7 Oct 2015:

      Sergio:
      Hi Imo,
      I think that what people don’t expect about our job and in general about space travel, is how much preparation is needed for it.

      All the experiments that Tim will do starting from December have been in preparation for more than one year. We have been studying and preparing them over and over and for many of them it is already planned on which day exactly they will be done.
      It’s only thanks to a careful and detailed work, that almost everything runs smoothly and successfully!

    • Photo: Beth Healey

      Beth Healey answered on 7 Oct 2015:

      Hi Imo,

      I think when people think of medical doctors they usually expect us to only work in hospitals. However medicine is a really wide field and there are lot’s of opportunities to work in different areas with a medical degree. For example law, journalism, education, research and of course my job here working as a researcher for the European Space Agency in Antarctica.

      I would never have imagined myself playing around in the snow collecting samples (looking for bacteria) when I signed up for medical school!! 😉

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