Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

by Scott Kelly

Mission control schedules our days into increments as short as five minutes using a program called OSTPV (Onboard Short Term Plan Viewer), which rules our lives. Throughout the day, a dotted red line moves relentlessly across the OSTPV window on my laptop, pushing through the block of time mission control has estimated for each task.

Really tight schedule...not sure if this is the best time management technique back on earth...

Pretty much everything we know about the world around us is influenced by gravity, but when you can remove that element from the subject of an experiment—whether it’s a mouse, a lettuce plant, a fluid, or a flame—you have unlocked a whole new variable.

Scientific method: fix one variable and let the rest flow and run your experiment. Through the book couldn`t stop thinking about what if feels to live without gravity...

Getting ready to go outside takes a great deal of time. We plan in advance as thoroughly as we can what we will do and in what order, to minimize problems and to maximize efficiency and performance. We

my philosophy is that for complicated jobs, if you aren’t ahead of schedule, you’re already behind.

Great advice.

“expeditionary behavior,” which is a loose term for being able to take care of yourself, take care of others, help out when it’s needed, stay out of the way when necessary—a combination of soft skills that’s difficult to define, hard to teach, and a significant challenge when they are lacking. Shannon was a master at this.