As an American space professional, how does it feel to be involved with getting that back on track?
I think it’s really great! I really look forward to it. On STS-121 we did a half rotation. We took Thomas Reiter up but didn’t return anybody, because we were on a two-person station crew at the time and we augmented it back to three. So, this is the first mission where we’re going up and down. I think it’s really exciting to do that. What makes this unique is, since it’s not a full-crew rotation, a lot of times the folks that are training for their increment are so busy that they don’t have much time to interact with the shuttle crews. And in our case it’s different. Mike L.A. and Misha have already gone to Russia and have been there for some time now getting ready to launch. Suni’s back here with us. Even though she has her own training, some of it overlaps with our training, and we share an office. So, we feel very much that she’s a part of our crew and our family. And when we take her up there, it’ll be bittersweet. We’ll be happy for her, but sad to leave her behind. On the other
