Avid NASA-fan since 5th grade, now working at JSC along side some incredibly talented folks, trying to make that next "giant leap for mankind". Background has been spacesuit systems and the training and flight control of the missions that used them, both US and Russian-based, on the Shuttle and International Space Station. I now work in the Contsellation Program, where we try to balance the "tried and true", the "ways of the new", and all of the the lessons learned from our successes and failures.