>> My name is Mark Bowman and I work in the flights dynamics division
of the flight operations directorate at the NASA Johnson space center.
I'm the sole use lead technical specialist in that branch.
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 was my dream come true.
Unfortunately my eyesight 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 ground side.