How It Works

Steve Swanson

How many ISS missions have you been sent on?

I was on three different missions. The first two were on the Space Shuttle and the third was the Soyuz. On the first I was a flight engineer, on the flight deck with two minor pilots of the shuttle. I had to go through the checklist

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