So a college friend of mine who was a Planetary Protection Engineer for the Mars Exploration Rover mission is now in med school, aiming to go into aerospace medicine. She's back at Cape Canaveral doing a 4-week space medicine rotation, and she started a blog about it. (She doesn't mention her name on the blog, so I won't here, either.) She has some pictures of the Space Shuttle's "auto shop", and she got to participate in a mock crash landing drill recently, triaging mock injured astronauts.
I also learned a new fact about the extent of her obsession with space: Apparently, as a kid, she "taped a copy of the shuttle console under my desk and lay under it pretending to fly the shuttle."
Now that's hardcore!