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Gist, the 4 are:- Reid Wiseman (47): A US Navy pilot who served for a time as the head of Nasa's astronaut office. He's flown one previous space mission, t
by textread 4y ago
Gist, the 4 are:-
Reid Wiseman (47): A US Navy pilot who served for a time as the head
of Nasa's astronaut office. He's flown one previous space mission, to
the International Space station in 2015.
Victor Glover (46): A US Navy test pilot. He joined Nasa in 2013 and
made his first spaceflight in 2020. He was the first African American
to stay on the space station for an extended period of six months.
Christina Koch (44): An electrical engineer. She holds the record for
longest continuous time in space by a woman, of 328 days. With Nasa
astronaut Jessica Meir she participated in the first all-female
spacewalk in October 2019.
Jeremy Hanson (47): Before joining the Canadian Space Agency, he was a
fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He has yet to fly in
space.
By inventing ssh, software engineers have shot themselves in the foot. Wont be seeing them on such missions anytime soon.
But what happens if there is a bug, the network connection to earth has died and the zoom calls have gone offline. Will we need a software engineer on board then?
- pavlov 4y agoSeventies kids are finally going to the Moon. Can Gen-X dreams actually come true?
- qbrass 4y agoTime travel and being a killer robot?
- devsda 4y agoNasa found out about the "turn it off and on" trick to fix bugs and decided not to send a dedicated software engineer :) On a serious note, some of the best programmers I know had education and experience in non-cs disciplines and moved to programming. If a software/network engineer is truly needed onboard, I'm assuming NASA would have selected/trained people with the required skillset even if it is not their primary domain of expertise.