Communication with Mission Control

As mentioned in a previous post, I have attended my fair share of overnight camps and trips. While some feel like a home away from home, others make you feel estranged and isolated. I remember attending a Texas History trip with my 7th grade class in which I ended up in group and with roommates whom I did not know very well. Because my calls to home felt like my only connection to the outside world, to situations where I was comfortable, I found myself emotionally stockpiling in every other instance and releasing my joys, frustrations, hopes, and fears on my family. I would find myself talking to them with bitterness and disdain, even though they were only there to support me. 

The same situation seems to manifest itself in relations between astronauts and mission control. While often the communications brought nothing but joy and relief to those in space, other times Mission Control will receive the brunt of pent up frustration among the astronauts who are to afraid of conflict with one another to express it easily.