Kristen Facciol: endless curiosity at the Canadian Space Agency
In January, Kristen Facciol was in Toronto for the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Conference and I was supposed to interview her then. However the conference coincided with the opening of my recent production "8 minutes 17 seconds" and I found myself too overwhelmed to make it happen. Luckily, Kristen was willing to talk to me later this winter via email and I am so grateful for her beautiful answers to my simple questions. Kristen is an Operations Engineer at the Canadian Space Agency, part of the Mission Control Group. She has trained at NASA, and trains astronauts herself, remotely operates robotics in space. Kristen was part of a history-making team, training the two astronauts for the first all-female space walk in 2019. This interview is short and sweet, but so worth the read. Kristen Facciol photo courtesy of NASA LR: What drew you to engineering? and to your particular area within engineering? KF: It was my high school algebra teac