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i want to start by asking you about the

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training you're getting ready to put

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into practice everything you've been

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learning for the past couple of years

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what has it been like traveling all

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around the world getting ready for this

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flight

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it's been great i love the travel i love

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the people

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i've met along the way the relationships

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that i've built in in germany in japan

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and especially over here in russia back

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in houston uh we've got a great training

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team and now we're going to transition

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over to a great mission control team i

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have my lead flight director my lead

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flight surgeon

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are with me in russia so uh really it's

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just making all these relationships

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around the world has been it's been

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absolutely fantastic i wondered about

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that is is there a big part of the

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training that's involved with teaching

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you guys how to deal with your different

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flight control teams around the world

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because they're critical in getting the

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mission accomplished

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i think we don't really have a specific

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training program for that but it's to me

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it's the exposure to their countries so

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just going over there and training with

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them

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you're going to live for a week or so in

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germany a week or so in japan and then

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i've spent more than a year in russia

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there's no way you can spend some time

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immersed in these cultures and not pull

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out the details that you need to

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so it's been really good for me to just

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to see all the different sides and there

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are definitely differences

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has the experience for you of having

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been a capcom here in mission control

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help you figure out how you deal with

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the ground

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uh

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let's wait maybe a day for the answer to

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that question but i definitely think it

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it will help me because i know i know

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the intensity that mission control works

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at and i know how many people are

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involved in making these decisions and

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there is no way that that knowledge will

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not help me during my six months in

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space

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your launch day tell me what that's

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going to be like what is that day for a

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crew as you're getting ready to leave

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the planet

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uh it's going to probably continue to be

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surreal and i'm sure i will have moments

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of just

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i don't want to say pure panic but pure

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adrenaline just coursing through the

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crazy six months ago i was in baikonur

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for the launch of rick mastracchio

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koichi

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and i got to see every step of the way

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for them and really really neat the

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formal ceremonies that you go to the

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last time that you're going to see your

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spouse

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going to suit up in the spacesuit and

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then heading out to the launch pad and

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we got to ride with those guys all the

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way out to the launch pad and uh they

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were ready i mean they were ready it was

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really neat it was very surreal to be

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with them and i imagine for us it'll

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it'll be pretty much the same but i

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think we'll be joking around a little

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bit more than they were

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on this ride in the soyuz you're going

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to be in the left seat to max sarajevo's

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left as essentially the co-pilot on this

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soyuz uh how is that going to compare to

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uh flying fighter jets

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in the in the fighter jet you're in

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control of your destiny there you have

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the control stick you have the throttles

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um and then the systems are pretty

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automated to keep you keep you going on

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the soyuz on the other hand uh it's a

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completely automated system and you're

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only there to recover in case of a

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failure or an emergency and i've spent

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the last year of my life

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really really honing these skills and

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max and i are ready they can throw

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anything at us

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in the training flow and we can we can

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pretty much handle it so i really love

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sitting in the left seat i absolutely

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love working with max arrive he's a

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great great commander

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and we're ready it's gonna be fun

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you're heading to the station to spend

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six months doing science tell me two or

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three of the the really neat things that

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oh i want to do all of it i'm looking

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forward to the science that really is

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going to look at my body and how it

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behaves in space i have a number of of

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medical experiments one is this the

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sprint

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exercise protocol so working out

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shorter workouts but really high

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intensity so i know anytime i get on the

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treadmill i'm going to max heart rate

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that's one that i really am excited to

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see how it works excited to see how i

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feel when i get home and i think the

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results are going to be great also doing

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lots of ultrasound work

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with

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investigators on the ground i'll be

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looking at my heart my heart valves

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blood volume also be doing ultrasound of

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the eyes to see how the fluid shift

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changes

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or ocular pressure all those are

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extremely interesting to me because we

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need to know these answers if we're

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going to have humans in space for 500

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plus days so onward to mars that's kind

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of a requirement for us but i'm also

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looking forward to some of the i'd say

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down in the weeds kind of science some

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of the protein crystal growth

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we also have three different cubesat

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deployers that we're gonna check out in

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the japanese airlock uh and then finally

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i think just a fun one spacex4 should

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bring up 3d printing and i really want

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to play around with a 3d printer i think

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that's really going to change the way we

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think about space flight in the future

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reed what has to happen on this mission

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for you to consider it to been

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successful

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come home

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that's it

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i think i think we're ready for

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everything up there uh i'm excited to

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get the science underway but in the end

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i want to come home and walk on the

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grass again

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well reed

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thanks for the talk and and good luck on

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the mission

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all right thanks great talk to you great