Geof Morris
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That Job Actually Didn't Last Long
Remember when I was super-excited about being back in aerospace after 1,508 days gone? That job lasted four months. I didn't really talk about it back then, but it's true. That was a fun job, actually, although I was under-utilized — either because I didn't hawk the work hard enough or because the project manager was incompetent. (You may choose 2 draw whichever conclusion you like.)
What was the job? I supported the development of a second glovebox for the International Space Station. What's a glovebox? That's a great question! How about letting Dr. Peggy Whitson tell us!
We now have two gloveboxes on ISS. One is the venerable Microgravity Science Glovebox, shown above; the other is the Life Sciences Glovebox, which is still in its shakeout phase. You can see Lee Jordan and Yancy Young about why we have two now.
NASA Marshall (where I work) wanted to take a ground unit of the MSG and fly it to ISS. Changes to that scope at the program level saw us finish out the partially-complete LSG and fly it to orbit for assembly. I was on the team of people helping to make that trade study into a reality. Marshall really wanted that work, spending engineering funds to do it. Sadly, it didn't go the way we wanted, and the funds that we paying me dried up before we could get to executing the LSG project. The week before Thanksgiving, I was out the door.
That job's ending just set the stage for me to start working in ISS payload operations a few weeks later. Less than two years later, I was operating MSG in addition to other duties. Now, less than two years after that, I was the Payload Operations Director on console for some LSG troubleshooting, which amused me greatly.
But the ops story is best told in a small series of anecdotes…
Posted on 06-Mar-2019 06-Mar-2019 Author Geof F. MorrisCategories Foofiness
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