Kyle Yawn

I’ve been surprised after coming into ops how much I’ve enjoyed receiving and conducting training. When I teach a class - whether I’m training other flight controllers, a CAPCOM (capsule communicator), flight directors from any of our control centers around the world, or crew - I get excited about going and teaching that class. They’re fun and I want to make them enjoyable for everybody while transferring the knowledge and skills that the students need. It’s been a really rewarding time for me to be able to conduct some of that training. It lets me have that human interaction with people outside of the flight loops and it helps us collaborate better because we have a shared experience. Training is so important for crew. When you start talking about deep space exploration it’s even more important because we’re not going to be able to have real time communications with the crew. We’re going to be falling back less on our operational products if the crew has questions and more on our training.