Photo Courtesy || Gwendolyn Pascua
Voyage to space is one of the most difficult task of any astronaut. But with the help of a mission controllers such as engineers, experts and engineers here on Earth, the journey to space is possible.
One of the scientist working in a Mission
Control Center at the Biotechnology Space Support Center (Biotesc) in
Lucerne University in Switzerland is a Cordilleran from Kalinga.
Her name is Gwendolyn Pascua, who hails from Tabuk, Kalinga and she is the Project Planning and
Coordination, Operation Lead Engineer and the Ground Controller at BIOTESC in
Switzerland.
BIOTESC acts on behalf of the European Space Agency that is tasked to guide
scientists who are conducting experiments with astronauts and the
International Space Station.
International Space Station (ISS) [Photo: pixabay.com] |
“We prepare [the astronauts’] experiments and procedures starting from
planning their experiments, coordinating with scientists and payload
developers. We do all tests necessary on the ground before they are sent to
the ISS (International Space Station),” Pascua said. - [Estanislao Albano
Jr] via inquirer.net
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Gwendolyn Pascua was in the Mission Control Center of BIOTESC who
successfully flew Thomas Pequet aboard the Soyuz MS-03 on November 17
of last year.
Thomas Pequet was the first French Astronaut from the European Space Agency
(ESA) who was blasted into space aboard the Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS for
a six month space tour under the European Proxima mission project.
Soyuz MS-03 [Photo: Spaceref.com |
Being an astronaut has been an aspiration for Gwendolyn since she was
a kid and now all the efforts and sacrifices she had done to pursue her
dream are slowly coming into reality now that she is working with a renowned
space agency in Europe.
Congratulations! May you become an inspiration to a lot of Filipinos and Cordillerans to continue pursuing their dreams.
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