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joining us here today on console is dr

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sandra moore who is a spacewalk

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specialist thanks so much for joining us

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this morning my pleasure it's really a

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privilege to see you again because i

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just saw you last week at the neutral

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buoyancy lab where scott kelly and shel

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lindgren were

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working so thanks for joining us here

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today to tell us a little bit more about

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your job yeah no problem

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so the onboard crew is preparing for

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three spacewalks that are coming up

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we've been following along with some of

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their activities getting the suits ready

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uh can you tell us just a little bit

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about um how how the team approaches

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space station spacewalk training as

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compared to the shuttle era when you

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could really train with the crews right

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up into their launch but at this point

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you know you're you don't see the crews

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nearly as much and then sometimes many

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many months before they even launch yeah

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it's actually very different these days

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we used to train specifically with the

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eva team the the team

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they would have up to 10 mbl runs which

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are pool runs they'd actually practice

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end to end and they almost have that

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choreography memorized even if we were

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doing several evas this time it's much

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different you have one team that follows

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the crew

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and you have different teams that follow

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planned evas so you actually have a

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significant portion of the office so

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this next series they have

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both butch and crew had different eva

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training teams because they're on

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different increments and then they have

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several different eba teams that follow

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each of the different evas

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so they have a series of 10 ebas that

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they train with their trainers with the

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first seven are planned for contingency

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type evas so they'll see all those

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unique interfaces and they develop a

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basic skill set that we ask them to pull

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from for any eva they would do the last

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three evas are up to the training team

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to determine what evas they might see

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and we try to show them any unique

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interface they haven't seen

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so specifically for these evas coming up

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the first one is a deployment of a

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series of lots of lots of cables we're

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basically rewiring station for the

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international docking adapter

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and that's a pretty unique and very very

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tough eva one to visualize and the other

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two execute just based on hand strength

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and so they were able to practice that i

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think twice so still very different than

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shuttle days

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one other unique aspect is when you've

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got mixed crews like this butch launched

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months before terry so how do you guys

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approach that you know that phase of

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when they're not going to have as many

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opportunities to train together but yet

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on orbit they will be doing this

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spacewalk together so what we try to do

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on either side of the increments if they

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could go out the door with each other we

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do try to train at least one if not two

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runs with them just so they can practice

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their teamwork and their their ability

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to to talk to one another and see how

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each other works everybody's a little

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different

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and so i know butch and terry actually

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practiced i think twice this first dva

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together and they were able to

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work on on their cadence and and their

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timing together as a team

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so you talked a little bit about the

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different approach of contingency evas

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and what's called planned evas which

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this one would fall into that category

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what are the kind of the challenges of

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trying to prepare for this type of

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spacewalk especially when the timing

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gets postponed which we've seen with

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this one as well

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yeah and the challenges come with one

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who's going to go out the door for you

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and every crew is a little different and

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they all have different types of

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preferences if you will and so we try to

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write the procedures fairly generically

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but we do fine-tune them

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for the crew as they go out the door

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where they wear their tethers how they

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like to carry their tools and so we

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worked closely with the training teams

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again butch and and terry had different

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training teams but we worked very

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closely with them as we're writing the

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in addition to that we they like they

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pull from that basic skill set and so we

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do try to make it a generic universal

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skill set that anyone that has gone

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through our our training can can do or

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execute that eva so it gives us

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confidence that anyone we have up there

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can do that no it's a great approach

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also what are the tools that you have on

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orbit for a crew to be able to refresh

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you know remain proficient for those

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spacewalks when they come so what we do

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is we actually send up the written

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procedures that are ground ivy who's the

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astronaut who will talk to them through

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the eva and guide them

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as we'll read so basically we call it a

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checklist we also send up a briefing

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package that has pictures and

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shots of all the different hardware and

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places on orbit they're going to see and

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translate and then they have a few

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special tools one we call doug which is

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a computer program they can fly through

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station and position themselves so they

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can see it electronically and they can

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actually convert that into an on-orbit

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vr trainer which is where they actually

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can wear the laptop on the head it has a

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special series of goggles that lets them

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see what they're doing in an animated

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environment but in 3d so they can

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actually walk the eva so it's pretty

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incredible

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let's see one last question um

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what are they doing right now i know

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like i said we've been following along a

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little bit with some of the suit

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preparations they've started but

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talk us through the countdown to this

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first spacewalk coming up on the 20th

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can you tell us what types of activities

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they'll still be doing to prepare for

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that yeah so it does ramp up quite a bit

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they have to prep the suits

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to make sure they're ready to go so they

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go through a series of flushes and tests

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and check out something called an ofe

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where they actually make the suit fit

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their body and so it's comfortable when

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they go out the door and since they

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haven't tried it on orbit they actually

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grow a little bit so make sure that it

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accounts for any growth they've had on

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orbit then they prepare on the on the

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task side by prepping their tools so

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they gather all the tools needed for

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each va and pack them specifically as

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needed in the bags to minimize any extra

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work they would have to do outside

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and then they're studying and they're

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studying that that procedure and how it

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might have changed since they did it

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once or twice it's probably been about

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six months maybe even eight since

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they've seen it

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just to make sure they remember how they

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how they did it in the pool

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well it sounds like there's just a lot

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of different

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resources available and to prepare all

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the spacewalkers and the team itself for

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the eva so thanks so much for joining us

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today and and sharing a little bit with

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us about your job and how the team

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supports our astronauts for the

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spacewalks no problem my pleasure

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again that was dr sandra moore the

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spacewalk specialist here as part of the