responsibilities: serves as the voice of the MER; communicates with and provide

s recommendations to NASA management and Mission Control; during a mission recei

ves briefings from shuttle engineering groups on status of their systems; briefs
Mission Management Team on status of the Orbiter and makes recommendations when
necessary; monitors anomalies that have occurred during flight.
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A MER manager is on duty twenty-four hours a day during a mission. MER managers
rotate in three shifts per day, and the manager on the first shift becomes the l
ead manager for the duration of the mission. Don McCormack is the lead MER manag
er for STS-107.