THE GROUND IS ALWAYS A CALL AWAY

摘要

At the beginning of an 11 -month mission you have a lot of energy, but it does get more challenging to keep bringing your best every day. So recognizing that you're going to make mistakes up there, that you're going to need help, and that there's a team of people who believe in human spaceflight just as much as you do who are willing to give you that help-recognizing that was huge for me. The ground is always a call away. There are a couple of comm units in each module, and when our hands are free we can float over and key a mic to talk to the ground. We try to keep it concise, since the channel is free for anyone to use and there are so many astronauts constantly working and coming up with questions or issues.