The Iowa State University Spaceflight Operations Workshop™ encourages participation of undergraduate students at Iowa State, students from other institutions, and middle school, secondary and post-secondary educators.
Spaceflight Operations Workshop™
Depart From the Typical Classroom Experience
Operational thinking and user-centered design are important for human space exploration as well as other disciplines.
To be a successful astronaut, or even an engineer here on earth, retired NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson feels that you need to think differently. To foster this premise, Anderson, along with Iowa State University, has created the two-week-long Spaceflight Operations Workshop™, which challenges the way students think.
Departing from the typical college classroom experience, students will participate in hands-on activities to learn planning, execution, and teamwork while transforming their thought processes to be more operationally centered.
The workshop is NOT designed to create future astronauts; it works to create a shift in one’s personal ability to think more operationally. It will present stressful conditions at times, with crewmembers experiencing long days filled with multiple activities. It will CHALLENGE you to be at your best! Let’s see if you have what it takes!
“The Spaceflight Operations Workshop is one of the most beneficial and eye-opening things I have ever done. When you find yourself jumping out of a plane or diving into deep waters, you learn not only about yourself and facing your fears, but about the world around you. That knowledge makes us better engineers.”
