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Interview with Mike Massimino, former NASA astronaut & Columbia U professor (Websummit 18)

In times where technological progress is unprecedented, how do astronauts navigate the human-machine relationship to deliver results? How do they collaborate and deliver as teams with human and technological components?

In times where technological progress is unprecedented, how do astronauts navigate the human-machine relationship to deliver results? How do they collaborate and deliver as teams with human and technological components?

Brightline Initiative talks to Mke Massimino, a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and a former NASA astronaut, at the sidelines of Websummit 2018. Michael Massimino is the senior advisor of space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

He says "I think it's important to embrace the technology, as it comes along". When to use humans and when to leverage the advances in technology? "Have a person do what they're best at or for (those aspects) where you don't have the technology for or cannot rely on technology to handle."


Published on 6 January 2019