CHAPTER 10 DAY IN THE LIFE: PREPARING FOR THE UNEXPECTED 176 are simulated by computers. The team works through various short scenarios (usually failures) to learn how to communicate crisply, resolve problems quickly, and to determine how to resume a particular task or mission. For example, a power failure in the electrical system will unpower equipment used by all the other systems. In the mini sim, the team will learn to identify the signature and communicate a recovery plan with the flight director, who might actually be an instructor playing the role. Personal photo courtesy of Robert Dempsey Figure 1. A student using the Part Task Trainer simulator. The student’s displays and data will mimic the real ISS in his specific system. Personal photo courtesy of Robert Dempsey Figure 2. A team of operators practice working as a team in a mini sim. The instructor (far left) runs the simulation while also playing the role of the flight director, CAPCOM, ISS crew, and international partners. After mastering this, the students will support full integrated simulations, where the purpose is to stay on the timeline as everything possible fails— on purpose. While operators rarely see the same level of failures on the