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Asked by 372spcc35 to Camilla, Dan, Katie, Mike, Rhys on 14 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Aisha786, 374spcc29.
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Katie Sparks answered on 14 Jun 2015:
Waaaay to often! The important thing is to learn from your mistakes and from the mistakes that others make. Also, I think it’s good to tell the people you’re working with that you’ve made a mistake, so they know you need longer to do your work.
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Camilla Weiss answered on 14 Jun 2015:
Hi 372spcc35 (can I call you ‘3’ for short?)
I have definitely made mistakes in my job and will probably make more in the future. Obviously we try very hard not to – mistakes in the space industry can be really, reeeeally expensive – but we aren’t robots (although I do have my suspicions about a couple of people I work with…). Making mistakes is part of the learning process. The important thing in any job is if mistakes do happen to own up to them so that they can be fixed, understand what went wrong and learn from the mistakes so that they don’t happen again.
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Rhys Archer answered on 15 Jun 2015:
Yep!! I think mistakes are a really important part of what we do – sometimes in this work its a a process of elimination of what works or not, sometimes there isn’t any way of finding out if something works except for actually doing it, and this can lead to certain mistakes – but you have to learn from them. Either that can be what went wrong for the mistake to happen and trying to not do that again, or whether its something that you didn’t expect to happen and you can look more into why it happened and you might learn more about what you’re working with than if you hadn’t made the mistake.
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