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oh

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assistant

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i see you

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astronaut rex walheim uh associate

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director for iss rex uh you're on yuri

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gagarin's launch pad uh first of all

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your thoughts about uh the rollout it's

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almost incredible uh whether to

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accompany this and uh what amounts to

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about 40 mile an hour winds yeah you

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gotta expect this and i've heard no

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matter what you uh what happens what you

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think is going to happen you got to

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dress warmly and uh that's the case and

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uh it's just a testament to our russian

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colleagues they can do this day in day

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out the weather doesn't stop them it's

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really really is impressive

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rex uh

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jeff williams about to make his third

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expedition to the international space

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station his fourth flight overall he's

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going to be a record breaker later in

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the summer taking over the all-time

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cumulative days in space from scott

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kelly

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how is his level of preparation and what

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is he going to bring to this increment

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oh you bet uh jeff is a is a workhorse

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he could have been ready to go along

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before but we make sure he's got his

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refresher training and everything he

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needs

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but obviously having spent uh so much

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time up there already he's going to be

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able to just step on board and get right

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to work and

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he's one of my fellow classmates from

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group 16 the 96 class of astronauts and

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we're really proud of him getting on his

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third long duration flight iss deputy

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program manager dan hartman dan

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third launch in six days coming up for

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the russian side

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and

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they rolled out in about 40 mile an hour

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winds here it's hard to even stand up

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what are your thoughts about uh soyuz

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behind you and uh the conditions uh that

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accompanied this today certainly the

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worst uh weather i've ever experienced

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here it's pretty amazing they've got uh

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so when we finally launch uh in a few

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days it'll be the third launch from the

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cosmic drone in a week it just really

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shows the the team effort that they pull

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together to make that happen here

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the complexity of these couple of

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increments that are coming up for jeff

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williams and his crewmates joining the

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crew already on orbit

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how difficult how involved will the next

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few months be for the station sure

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significant amount of vehicle traffic

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coming with the progress undocking and

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then birth docking later on

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then we follow that up with the orbital

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mission and then finally spacex you know

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the first week or so of april

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hundreds of experiments coming up on

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board a lot of our logistics supply is

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finally being replenished where we can

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now get to that six months total that

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we've always been striving for after

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we've suffered a couple accidents so

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total between those two flights is about

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7 000 metric tons which is great and

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piled in inside all that

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cargo is payloads on the order of 200

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payloads that they'll be conducting

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during the during the increments that

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they'll be up there so very very very

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very busy time and the experience that

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jeff williams brings to this this pair

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of increments in enabling all of this

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work to be done yes i was thinking about

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that earlier you know when he was up

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there his first go around we were

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reconfiguring the space station moving

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the eclipse racks from the us lab into

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node three so he had that

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reconfiguration job to do on the inside

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we still have some work to do with the

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reconfiguration on the outside such as

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installing the ida when it comes up

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later in his increment and so

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he's got he's going to show his

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experience and he'll be a great great

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addition to the space station up there

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we look forward to it

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this rollout occurs on the 50th

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anniversary of the first docking of

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spacecraft in orbit gemini 8 neil

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armstrong dave scott they brought their

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vehicle to a six-hour docking to an

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agena target vehicle

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soyuz behind you six hours to get to the

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international space station how far have

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we come in five decades yeah it's

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absolutely amazing and in 50 years or

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one lifetime how far we've really

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advanced you know to think doing the

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first u.s rendezvous like you described

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50 years ago today and

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and that was really pioneering and

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breakthrough and then here we are with

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this you know four orbit or six six

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hours basically from the launch to

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docking on station

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you know we've

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we've gotten things better they're more

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straightforward i can tell you it's

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still not easy the environment requires

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precision it requires concentration

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when you get overconfident and you start

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thinking things are easy that's when

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things get get problematic for you so

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even though you know we've come a long

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way it's still a harsh environment it

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still requires the absolute best in our

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teams to accomplish what we're about