She is coordinating the field training, classroom training, including seminars, and any other training needed. She has just returned from a seven-day hike in the wilderness with three other astronauts and some other people who are bidding with NASA to conduct some of these courses. Shannon Lucid was one of those astronauts included on this trip to the desert in Utah. The goal of this training was to accomplish working together as a team adapting to strange or different conditions. When expedition crews do field-training exercises in Russia, the Expedition Corps Engineer will be right there participating along with the crewmembers.
Some people get to do some of the neatest things in the course of their job.
That is why it is important to try to figure out what you would be happiest doing for a career and go after it. The engineers in my division work on many different things. Others support robotics hardware and software. Another really neat thing is that all my employees get to travel all over the world. One lady is currently in Japan, and the others have traveled to places such as the Netherlands, Canada, Russia, Italy, Brazil, California, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.