Re: Pecking order for MS1 seat?

"Trust No One®" <dana.scully@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:4iiop3F3vd8hU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Taking the specialist Pilot, Commander and Flight Engineer (MS2) seats
out of the equation, the MS1 seat would be the only flight deck seat
available to "general" competition.

So...Is there any particular pecking order for this prestigious seat?
I would imagine that Mission Specialists would automatically get
priority over Payload Specialists.

For Mission Specialists, would things such as flying experience,
seniority, time with NASA, rate of progress up the corporate ladder,
whether one has flown on the flight deck before etc come into play?

Does the commander have say in the decision as to which of the crew is
assigned this seat?

The commander has the final say on seating assignments. On complex flights
there is often a Crew Task Panel that meets to help divide up tasks to even
out the training load, and that may influence the commander's assignments.

The MS1 seat is always filled by a mission specialist, never a payload
specialist. MS1 actually does have one duty during ascent/entry. He/she is
the keeper of the "REF DATA" book, which lists failure impacts for data
buses, electrical buses, etc. MS1 can be fairly busy in sims, not so much
in flight.

Some commanders split the seat, with (for example) MS1 on the flight deck
during ascent and MS3 during entry.


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