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Originally Posted by krystar
it totally seemed like the character was some phd student that got the crash course in being an astronaut was whisked into space do some wrench monkey job...
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....which is pretty much what a mission specialist is. Not a pro astronaut but someone who's on that one mission to perform one specific thing, because of whatever their specialty is.
Plus, it served another purpose, per flatbutt.
JR