Over Coffee® | Stories And Resources From The Intersection Of Art And Science | Exploring How To Make Steam Work For You

Due to a family emergency, we will be posting our regularly-scheduled Over Coffee® episode later this week. Meanwhile, please enjoy this reposting of one of our all-time-favorite episodes! Imagine that you're at work. You're performing a routine task with technology. Suddenly, everything stops working. And your co-workers all come out and ask, "What did you do?" That's bad enough. But now--imagine that this happens to you aboard the International Space Station. And it's up to you to fix everything. Otherwise, your life--and those of your team--will be at risk. That's what happened to NASA Astronaut and retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock. When this happened, during Doug's time as a flight engineer for Expedition 24, and commander of Expedition 25, he was no stranger to troubleshooting in space. Doug Wheelock at Space Apps Pasadena, 2016. Serving as a flight mission specialist on STS-120, the space shuttle’s 23rd mission to the International Space Station During that