The HabForum

Do you ever find it frustrating to come back from a week at Space Camp or Avation Challenge and talk to people who just don't understand when you say, "I piloted the space shuttle this week," or "Man, that firefight was just incredible!" Well, here's your chance to brag. If we really were astronauts or fighter pilots, we'd have some interesting stories to tell. So, let's hear your's. You can combine any aspects of your Camp or AC experiences. Pull out all the stops. Be outrageous and creative. Here's my biography for starters:

Name: Kemara Sisk
Years With NASA: 12
Biography:
With a degree in engineering from Georgia Tech, Sisk began her career with NASA in 1991 as a Spacecraft Systems Officer for the July 16 flight of Discovery. In September of 2001, Sisk led a team to the International Space Station for a 6-month mission. During that time, she studied polymers, survived a raging electrical fire and fended off an alien attack with handfuls of Skittles and M&Ms. "We never knew before that aliens are allergic to sugar. They seem especially incapacitated by green Skittles. The discovery was an important military breakthrough," Sisk explained.
The following year, Sisk was a mission specialist on an Enterprise flight to repair a TDRS satellite. The flight was put in danger when a group of terrorists stormed mission control and held flight controllers hostage for half an hour. Of the incident Sisk says, "I was on the flight deck at the time, and that was as close to panic as we ever came. We had no communication with the ground and resorted to writing messages on the backs of proceedures manuals and holding them up to the cameras."
Sisk is slated for her third flight in Oct. of 2003, again as a mission specialist. "I don't know what will happen, but I have no doubt it will be interesting!" Sisk commented.

Believe it or not i've actually thought up this stuff before now. I even came up with mission numbers of real flights to fit the missions we flew at space camp iver the years. The first 2 years were easy we were told camp in 91 was STS-35, Academy in 93 we repaired the hubble space telescope and the first of its servicing missions was later tat year STS-63 and the last year the closest i could come up with was a space hab doubke cargo mission to the iss thgat happened early the following year. So here it goes keep in mind this is more fiction than fact although ill leave the camp years the same i actually came up with an apropriate astronaut class and everything.

Name. Colonel Jason Schreck USMC
Years with NASA: 16 (fictionalised based on a 1987 astronaut class selection)
Biography:
Before Joining NASA Colonel Schreck was a United states Marine Corps Aviator flying the F-4 Phantom, FA-18 Hornet. Having seen combat over Vietnam near the end of the war. He Joined NASA as a pilot Astronaut in 1987 in the first class after the Challenger Accident. After completing 4 years of training he made his first shuttle flight as pilot in 1991 on STS-35 aboard the space shuttle Columbia. He returned to flight in 1993 as commander of the STS-63 Mission to repair service the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most successful missions in NASA's history. Between the second and third flight Colonel Schreck served as a Space Craft Systems Officer on several flights before returning to space in 1998 aboard the shuttle Discovery (Enterprise) on STS-96 the second mission to the International Space Station.

Name: Benjamin N. Schwartz
Years with NASA: 8
Bio: Schwartz has flown on two shuttle missions where he has constructed a geometric figure during an EVA as a mission specialist and piloted one shuttle mission. He has never been to a space station, though he has served in MOCR as Flight, where no one listened to him and he killed several of his controllers after going senile during an EDM. He was Booster/Prop once several years ago, which rounded out his fantastic career. "The job really sucked," he says. "All I did was watch a bar graph that never moved. I wouldn't mind being CapCom, though, where the crew has to listen to me or they're S-O-L. I'm just sick of nobody listening to me when I'm Flight. Five different missions as Flight and not once do I get any respect. Do you blame me for going senile? Huh? I can't hear you! Well?"