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NARRATOR: The International Space Station's
Expedition 29 is the first long-duration space

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flight for all three of its
upcoming crew members,

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but for one of them it's not even
his first trip to the station.

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DAN BURBANK: Dan Burbank is
from central Connecticut,

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born in Manchester and raised in Tolland.

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He became interested in space and astronomy
and science when the first men landed

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on the Moon just one week
before his eighth birthday.

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But a bigger impression was made a year
later when he saw the movie "The Boatniks."

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DAN BURBANK: And it was this silly
story about this fellow who graduates

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from the Coast Guard Academy and goes to a ship
and, and has this whole series of misadventures,

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but from that point on, as long as I can
remember, I wanted to be in the Coast Guard,

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I wanted to do search and rescue.

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NARRATOR: He didn't get into the Coast Guard
Academy on his first try, but after two years

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as a physics major at Fairfield University
he did, and learned almost immediately

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that Coast Guard officers
don't do search and rescue

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on small boats, as he had dreamed of doing.

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But helicopter pilots did,
and that became his new goal.

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Burbank graduated with a Bachelor of Science in
Engineering and spent a year and a half assigned

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to a Coast Guard cutter before
going to flight school

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and learning to fly planes and helicopters.

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After his first tour he earned a
Master's in Aeronautical Science

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from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University and completed the training

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to become an engineering officer, and did

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that job while still flying
on subsequent assignments.

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But he was inspired when fellow Coast Guard
officer Bruce Melnick became an astronaut,

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and Burbank applied three times before
being selected as an astronaut in 1996.

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He was part of the 2000 shuttle
mission that prepared the Zvezda module

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for the station's first permanent
crew, performed one spacewalk

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on the 2006 shuttle mission that delivered the
P3/P4 truss, and then spent three years teaching

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at the Coast Guard Academy before retiring
as a captain and beginning training

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for his first long-duration space
flight, which he likens to the work

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that drew him to the Coast Guard as a boy.

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DAN BURBANK: You're not going and doing
a mission with the idea that you're going

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to save a life, you're going to do a
mission with the idea that you're going

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to save the future of a species and
that this is where humans belong.

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I think humans by their very nature, you
know, are outward-looking and I think it's

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in our destiny to leave this planet
ultimately and to go other places.

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NARRATOR: Russian Air Force Colonel Anton
Shkaplerov was born and raised in Sevastopol,

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the home of the Russian Navy's Black Sea fleet.

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Though his father worked on a submarine,
Shkaplerov became fascinated with space flight

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as a boy and felt that the Air Force
was the best path to cosmonaut,

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so he joined a local aviation club.

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ANTON SHKAPLEROV: I started flying planes at 15.

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At 16 I was flying them on my own.

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I was flying over my hometown where I was born.

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Everything was so familiar
and pleasant to the eye.

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So then I realized that after
two years of flying,

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when I was in high school, the choice was right.

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NARRATOR: After high school Shkaplerov went to
the Kachinsk Air Force Pilot School in Volgograd

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and graduated as a pilot-engineer.

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He flew MIG-29s while attending the Zukovsky Air
Force Engineering School, then spent six years

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as a pilot-instructor while
also flying as a member

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of the Sky Hussars, a flight
demonstration squadron.

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Shkaplerov was selected as a cosmonaut in 2003.

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ANTON SHKAPLEROV: If we do not study the space,
we will stalemate, and we have to move on,

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we have to study new planets, new horizons, new
resources, new energy resources, for example.

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Maybe there is some other types of forms
of life on other planets, so why not?

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NARRATOR: Anatoly Ivanishin, a
Lieutenant Colonel in Russia's Air Force,

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is a native of Irkutsk, one of
the largest cities in Siberia.

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He spent a lot of time in various
sports and study groups as a boy,

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and although his mother says he always wanted
to be a cosmonaut Ivanishin remembers wanting

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to be a fighter pilot, and that's why he
joined a skydiving club as a young teenager.

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ANATOLY IVANISHIN: At the time it was the
only sky-related activity available for me.

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We didn't have at the time an opportunity
in my city to fly any kind of airplanes,

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so I did my first jump when I was 14...

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NARRATOR: He didn't get into military
pilot school on his first attempt,

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so Ivanishin spent a year
majoring in aviation design

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at the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute
before starting his pilot training

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at the Chernigov Higher Military
Aviation School.

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He graduated in 1991, the same year the Soviet
Union collapsed, and although he flew the MIG-29

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and SU-27 operationally he felt he
wasn't getting the experience he wanted,

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so he took classes at Moscow State University
in economics, statistics and information theory.

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He graduated in 2003 with plans for
a career as a software developer,

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but gave that up when he was selected
as a cosmonaut that very same week.

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ANATOLY IVANISHIN: Human beings are too
curious creatures and they will not remain

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for long time on low Earth orbit.

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They will go further and
further to the universe.

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Because to go further we will need new
solutions, new materials, new spacecraft