>> What do I love about my job?
Well I wanted to be an astronaut from the time I was knee high to a grasshopper,
I've been fascinated with space and flight and airplanes and anything to do with flight
and aviation and aerospace as long as I can remember.
So this is my dream come true.
Unfortunately my eye sight wasn't good enough to pursue the flight part,
but I get to do the next best thing and work on a day-to-day basis with the astronauts and kind
of help them out from the grand side.
I think the most challenging parts are one, the language was difficult to learn.
I kind of a talent with languages, but even still, it's very difficult to learn to the point
where you can simultaneously think in two languages,
to learn the whole vocabulary and the technical aspects of it.
Political aspects, we're dealing with changes in politics, as we said,
we get along very well at the working level.
But nonetheless, we do have to deal with the political environment
in the country and deal with those issues.
We have to be very careful when we travel and try to blend in when we're traveling,
because there are people that in other countries that don't necessarily like Americans,
would like to do harm to us, so we try to keep a low profile.