“He’s a really good listener,” Barron said. Michael Collins, who piloted the command module for Apollo 11, referred to himself and moonwalkers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as “amiable strangers.” The mix of military pilots and scientists is probably the biggest professional difference in any crew.” We’re putting people together with different quirks and skill levels. “All crews are like families,” Marshburn said, “but usually very functional families.
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The crew’s mix of military, physical science, medical science and engineering expertise gets at how things work, why they work and how to make them work. Air Force colonel and test pilot-call sign “Grinder”-who was among the first to fly the new F-35 stealth fighter. Marshburn is a physician, and Raja Chari, commander in the Crew Dragon, is an U.S. He often has ideas that we each incorporate into our own approach.” Diverse Experiences, Perspectivesīarron is a submarine officer, in addition to an engineer.
“ had all of these ideas on how to manage tethers that were more efficient for him,” Barron said, “and a little different from what I do and what other astronauts I’ve trained with do. Barron called it “the hardest of the hardest.” If something goes wrong with a spacesuit or an astronaut has a medical problem, the other astronaut must wrangle two sets of tethers and get them both back to the airlock, fast. The pair practiced rescuing each other on a spacewalk.
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