About the author  ⁄ John A. Malcolm, P.E.

John A. Malcolm, P.E., is Senior Vice President for Peak Engineering Inc. Lakewood, Colorado. He serves on the NCSEA Continuing Education Committee.

After experiencing “Gravity” at the theater, I left with a sense of inspiration and awe at witnessing an excellent film, a story about experts, highly trained astronauts, professionals, the best at what they do, able to focus in the most dangerous and stressful circumstances, with a calm reliance on their extensive training to deal with almost any situation. For those who haven’t seen the movie, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are on a spacewalk when an accident causes everything to go terribly wrong. As depicted in the movie, maintaining focus on their training wasn’t easy, but was faithfully done with amazing results.

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