Chuck and Laurel from the Houston Museum of Natural Science

Chuck started off by getting everyone to give him a green for go on his or her workstations and on his console his FD panel showed their station turn green.  They can also go either amber or red so he could monitor if someone was having a major problem.  It was also used as a check off system ("Everyone go to amber for nominal ops").  He mentioned that we were going to be rotating through the stations that volunteered to have one of us sit with them.  We were excited!


 

Challenger Center Flight Directors with the Flight Activities Officer (FAO)

 The simulation began with five problems at once!  One of the space station’s batteries, a shuttle jet hand controller, a robotic arm switch, and one of the cameras had all failed.  To top it off the shuttle was in the wrong place!  The crew quickly reprogrammed the digital auto pilot, and the control center team worked with them to quickly to resolve all of the problems.

Chuck kept a great running log of the problems on his computer.  First he went through and highlighted all of the important tasks on the flight plan which I thought was cool because that’s what we always did at Space Camp. They compensated for the lost battery, reconfigured the hand controller and were running a check on the latch BUS.

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