Andrea Boyd has lived, worked, studied, visited friends and participated in space events in over 75 countries. A Mechatronic Engineer from Australia/Italy, she spent years working in Automation many industries, on site as a FIFO Mining Engineer underground and end to end process plant in the remote desert. Andrea certified as an International Space Station Flight Operations Engineer for payload control and cross-certified in later years for crew operations. She serves in the European Space Agency’s Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration Directorate as an ISS Flight Controller at the European Astronaut Centre.