• Question: out of 10 how much would you rate science?

    Asked by Plomt to Col Op, Elie, Floris, Jenn, RocketRich on 6 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Columbus Operations

      Columbus Operations answered on 6 Mar 2016:

      Ivano: Science is the reason for which ISS has been built and it’s being operated.

      However, as a Columbus Flight Director I am responsible for crew safety and vehicle integrity, so our priorities are “Crew, Vehicle, Mission”, meaning that the top priority is safeguarding the lives of the crew members. Then we need to avoid damaging the ISS, or losing critical functionalities. At the third place there is mission success: ensuring that the science experiments provide science return (data and results) to the scientists/

    • Photo: Jenn Wadsworth

      Jenn Wadsworth answered on 13 Mar 2016:

      11 😉

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