Moderator Lance D. Davis, left, listens as retired NASA astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman, right, speaks to audience members at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center about her experiences of living and working in space during a panel discussion on June 8 at Activities Building 4316.
She joined guest speakers to discuss aspects of social isolation and separation astronauts may experience during long-duration missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Coleman spent more than 180 days in space during two space shuttle missions and a six-month expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) from 1995 to 2011.
Coleman concluded her two-day visit with a facility tour of Marshall on June 9 featuring overviews of the ISS Payload Operations Control Center, the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and Human Landing Systems program.
Cady Coleman, retired NASA astronaut, test drives a lunar rover on Marshall’s Lunar Regolith Terrain Field during an overview of how the center is developing capabilities for mapping, navigation, mobility on the surface of the Moon.