Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson peers out the windows of the cupola of the International Space Station. She has flown to the ISS on the space shuttle Endeavor and on the Russian Soyuz TMA 18 crew capsule. During her two flights she logged over 188 days in space, including more than 22 hours in three spacewalks. She is conversational in American Sign Language (ASL) and Russian.
Dyson also sings lead vocals for the Houston-based all-astronaut rock band Max Q. (Maximum Q or Max Q is an engineering term meaning the point at which aerodynamic stress on a vehicle in atmospheric flight is maximum.) There are several bands named Max Q. The astronaut band performs at the Kemah Boardwalk in Kemah, TX, in this 2008 YouTube video.
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