Space Operations: Contributions from the Global Community

Craig Cruzen is Payload Operations Director for the International Space Station (ISS) Program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He leads a ground control team in performing science operations onboard the ISS. He has received several NASA awards in cluding the Silver Snoopy. Mr. Cruzen holds a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.Michael Schmidhuber is employed at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He has worked in mission operations and system development for various LEO and GEO projects. Currently he is responsible for ground system engineering of the new European Data Relay System (EDRS) that will be operated from GSOC. He graduated in aerospace engineering from the Technical University of Munich.

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• Space mission design and management.- Ground system design and operation.- Space mission operations.