NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio with Orion-ESM team

NASA Astronaut Rick Mastracchio with Orion mockup

NASA astronaut and Orion representative of NASA’s astronauts office Rick Mastracchio joined the teams doing Orion’s European Service Module critical design review at Airbus DS in Bremen, Germany. He supports the teams bringing in his vast experience of numerous space missions, among them a six months stay on the International Space Station. During his work he found time to present to an audience of Airbus employees and young students how interesting life in space is and what the challenges are to live and work in space.