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the teams here on the ground obviously

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as mentioned are

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with one eye on the activities aboard

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the space station is also following

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along with the countdown activities in

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baikonur among the three crew members

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headed to the international space

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station is barry wilmore who has flown

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previously in space on a shuttle flight

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an 11 day mission the

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sts-2129 mission of atlantis he uh

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is part of the three-member crew that's

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headed to the station this afternoon and

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evening

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during the crew's traditional trip to

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red square before the three actually

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left moscow for baikonur we actually had

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a few minutes to talk to barry about his

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impending trip to space and asked him

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what it has been like to train for this

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journey to the international space

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oh this experience it's been it's been a

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long training flow two and a half years

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and experience actually has been

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wonderful because the main thing i think

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i guess the most

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the most exciting most beneficial part

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for me personally is there are many

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individuals around the globe that put

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their passion into human space flight

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and when you have an exam like we had

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the last two days

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we've also had tests and whatnot in

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other locations in jackson japan and at

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uh um in

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cologne there with the european space

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agency and we have exams and tests

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evaluation of how you've done and you

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come through and you see the look on

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those instructors faces

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that they've done their part they've

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gotten the crew ready and that's that's

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a wonderful benefit for us to see that

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and experience that and see see that in

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their faces so that's that's a special

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the day of launch is is quite a long day

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there's much preparation physical

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preparation for launch getting the the

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suit on there's pressure checks involved

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there's there's uh reporting to the

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commission that's going to the vehicle

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going to the rocket there's laying on

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your back for two and a half hours in a

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somewhat uncomfortable position it's

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just you know it's just the way it is

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for for for all space vehicles including

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this one and then of course the launch

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six hours after launch we finally run to

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buda station so that's about you know

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all together before you actually from

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the time you get up until you go to bed

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that's almost a full 24 hours so it's a

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it's quite taxing obviously physically

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but think of the environment you're in

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and uh

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the station exists

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for the benefit of mankind and

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everything we do

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the systems that we work on the systems

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that have been designed going back you

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know 20 years ago the inception of the

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station and the systems we work on now

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are part of the program as we go forward

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i know at my house i have an on-demand

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water heater that came from nasa

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technology and we have on-demand water

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heaters on station so you know it's

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beneficial to mankind now and certainly

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we're looking to the future

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much of our science is involved about

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will we go beyond or beyond low-earth

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orbit and when we go beyond low-earth

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orbit there's a lot we need to know and

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understand so much of our science is

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physical science uh for the the

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individuals themselves and how we cope

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with long-duration weightlessness and

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also the systems that will take us to

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those far destinations

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it's it's big picture it's it's