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Now that diving actually is working for me, I want to do it again! The first three times they wouldn't let me because of congestion but the 4th time was the charm and now I can't wait to dive again!

diving is AWESOME (as Becky D would say!). I loved it... But I loved being pilot more, and I think if I had the opportunity to go back again, I'd go as pilot track again, despite the fact that they don't get to scuba anymore... Dang it, that's what I shoulda written on my Evals... Why is it that I never think of the good things to write until it's too late?? Grr... If anyone reads this before they go back, write on your eval (for me!) that they should bring scuba back for Pilots!!

Diving was cool, but I don't think it was worth changing tracks over. Maybe that's just 'cause I live in FL and I could go anytime.

i live in NYC, and before the UAT, I'd never dove before, and other than the UAT, I've never dove any where else... So it's my only opportunity to go diving...

:(I am one of the few unlucky ones becasue I will never be able to dive since I have asthma. I think that I could dive beacuse I was on a compative swim team 3 years ago and still have the lungs of a swimmer. But I under stand thier resoning because on they don't want to get in trouble with the insurance company. Plus right now they already have declining attendce if something where to happen god forbed they could closed down for awhile or the attendce could go down even more.

one of the guys on my team, Chewie, had almost been certified as a diver, but then got lazy, and stopped. And they still wouldn't let him dive because one time, when he was little, he had had asthma, despite the fact that he no longer did (i believe). So it really is a lot about the insurance. They almost didn't let me dive this year, because one of the multiple signatures wasn't signed by my parents (I'll be 18 in less than a month!)... But they managed to get it to my dad before diving, so I was able to. (YAY!)

ApolloXI wrote::(I am one of the few unlucky ones becasue I will never be able to dive since I have asthma.

I've got asthma too so I really didn't mind the fact that pilots didn't dive anymore since it didn't affect me anyway. Last year my allergist who also manages my asthma sent a note that said I was clear to dive b/c my asthma hadn't been affecting me for a long time, but they didn't let me because of insurance. I don't blame them though.

Jason (I think) said that they discovered that even if you had asthma before but you don't have it now, doesn't mean you should dive. Something about the scar tissue in your lungs from previously having asthma or something....don't quote me on that, I just remember it being something to that effect.

Yeah, but the thing with me was that I've never had an asthma attack in my life, and my dr. who dives looked over my chart and examined me and said I'd be ok. I'll quit griping though because I really don't hold it against them at all. I'm just happy that I got to go to camp at all.

I have been a mission specialist twice. I think it is the best track because you get to pretend you're floating with the harness. Mission specialists also die the most :maniacal laughter: ... I mean, that's a shame.

i was an MS (in MOCR) and I didnt die at all.... though Jackie did eat my toe... I died more as CDR and Flight Op...

MS was fun although pilot is fun just out of sheer crazyness...

Soccer wrote:i was an MS (in MOCR) and I didnt die at all.... though Jackie did eat my toe... I died more as CDR and Flight Op...

Yes, but surely you died on the one hour mission when you were in the orbiter? I can only remember one time that they finished the EVA on time on a one hour mission without burning up (lol). I was the EVA MOCR officer at the time. It was a proud, proud moment ... until they left the airlock open and died anyway. My boyfriend has been to academy twice but never to advanced. If I can somehow dig up a thousand bucks, I'm going to drag him along next summer. He would probably be a pilot, since, yeah, he's obsessed with flying stuff

in the EDM, I killed the MSes when I was EVA, because I didn't know to run a diagnostic on the GNC, so it failed and they died... But on the one hour mission, my particular group got in right before landing, but one of the other groups on my team got in before they died...

Well, MS was fun. We also managed to get in right before the landing. That got some good laughs out of the MOCR crew.

Our MS team was really good about getting in before we even started to de-orbit. We all acted discouraged. ("Darn, they made it back alive. So much for our party... ")