Andre Douglas

I know for me, it helps to do a lot of mental prep with respect to procedures and, you know, all the tasks that you're going to do on the mission.

So some of the things that we do, which is translatable from what we did early in the astronaut candidate training program is something called chair fly, right?

So I'm sitting in a chair right now and I'm envisioning where am I going to be?

I'm going to be either on station, I'm going to be in Orion, you know,

And I'm going to think about, okay, I have to get my suit off.

I have to work my cuffs on my gloves.

And then I have to work my helmet.

I have to figure out how to get my head out of the neck ring.

And I'm going to talk through those motions.

I'm going to actually physically move in that manner without the stuff.

But I'm going to mentally and physically connect those actions in my mind, right?

I'm going to chair fly.

I'm going to do all in the chair.

That goes with spacewalks out the door.

That goes with other procedures on the display units.

These are our DUs that we do in Commanding Orion.

I'm going to go to all these different menus in my mind so that when I'm there in the moment, I've already done that mental prep, and it becomes more automatic as I'm executing, and it helps a lot.

I think from an operational standpoint, that's very helpful.

So that's the mental prep.

And the physical prep to me is about –