Artemis<\/a> missions. \u00a0<\/p>\nHer team supports astronaut inflight and postflight debriefs, capturing and analyzing feedback to help NASA apply lessons learned. They also manage one of NASA\u2019s most valuable habitability tools, the Crew Comments Database. With more than 115,000 entries spanning 25 years of International Space Station missions, it is the only comprehensive and searchable record of crew feedback in existence. Every comment, from how astronauts sleep to how they organize supplies, becomes part of NASA\u2019s collective learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Crew Comments Database is my work pride and joy,\u201d Schuh said. \u201cIt\u2019s been an invaluable resource for operations and development and continues to lend itself to future exploration.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Schuh\u2019s path to NASA began with a mentor who saw her potential early on. While studying psychology at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, she was introduced to human factors research by Dr. Gerald Gamache, whose work on the effects of the Chernobyl reactor explosion helped shape her understanding of how people function in complex environments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
While completing her master\u2019s degree in human factors and systems at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, Schuh began her first internship at NASA in 2000. \u201cEven from the first days of my internship at Johnson, I knew I was meant to be a part of this community supporting humans living and working in space,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Schuh left Johnson briefly to support human systems integration for the Navy and Air Force but returned in 2006. Since then, she has continued to shape how astronauts experience living and working in space.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her mentor\u2019s influence extended beyond Schuh\u2019s technical work. \u201cDr. Gamache was also a community builder outside of his professional life, and I\u2019d like to think some of that rubbed off on me,\u201d she said. That inspiration led her to found the Johnson Parenting community in 2020, which now includes more than 600 members who share support and resources for working parents across the center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Schuh has learned that her work is about more than data\u2014it is about people. \u201cBeing purposeful in taking time to listen and be willing to learn and collaborate has made all the difference for me,\u201d she said. \u201cOver time, I\u2019ve learned a lot about perseverance. This work has required it, encouraging folks to utilize the Crew Comments Database and keeping the feedback process empowered and robust.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She is most proud of her family, known as Team Schuh\u2014her husband, Scott, who works on the Orion Ascent Abort Mode Team, and their three daughters, Wilhelmina, Lorelei, and Franny. \u201cThey\u2019re the reason I keep striving to balance work, family, and everything in between,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finding that balance has been an ongoing struggle for her. \u201cOne of my biggest professional challenges, especially in the last 14 years since my oldest daughter was born, has been finding work-life balance,\u201d she said. \u201cI often struggle with creating boundaries and calling it a day at a reasonable time. I won\u2019t pretend I have the secret recipe, but I\u2019m working on it for sure.\u201d Schuh credits the Johnson Parenting community for helping her and others along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Outside of work, Schuh finds peace in the water and in nature. Her father, who worked in underwater engineering, taught her to scuba dive when she was 11. \u201cWe\u2019ve taken some amazing multi-day trips together, including multiple visits to Cay Sal Bank,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s my favorite dive buddy, and I look forward to many more dive trips with him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking ahead, Schuh hopes to pass on that same sense of purpose she has found at NASA to the next generation. \u201cMake connections and nurture them. It\u2019s always cool to be kind,\u201d she said. \u201cStay true to yourself and your values. Tell the people you admire how and why they inspire you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susan Schuh has dedicated her career to helping humans adapt to life beyond Earth.\u00a0\u00a0 As the Flight Crew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[84635,2043,209363,70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-693313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-human-health-and-performance","9":"tag-johnson-space-center","10":"tag-people-of-johnson","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115888289486877965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}