1 00:00:01,935 --> 00:00:02,535 >> HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE 2 00:00:02,535 --> 00:00:03,803 THE GUY ON THE LAST 3 00:00:03,803 --> 00:00:05,405 SERVICING MISSION OF HUBBLE 4 00:00:05,405 --> 00:00:06,473 TO DO THE FIRST THING 5 00:00:06,473 --> 00:00:07,507 ON THE MISSION, WHICH IS 6 00:00:07,507 --> 00:00:08,842 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, 7 00:00:08,842 --> 00:00:09,909 AND THEN BREAK THE BULB? 8 00:00:09,909 --> 00:00:17,784 [ MUSIC ] 9 00:00:17,784 --> 00:00:19,519 WELL, I GREW UP IN DETROIT. 10 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:21,087 DETROIT'S THE MOTOR CITY. 11 00:00:21,087 --> 00:00:22,689 MY FATHER AND UNCLE WERE 12 00:00:22,689 --> 00:00:23,790 BOTH ENGINEERS FOR 13 00:00:23,790 --> 00:00:25,358 FORD MOTOR COMPANY. 14 00:00:25,358 --> 00:00:27,694 I WAS ALWAYS EXPOSED TO 15 00:00:27,694 --> 00:00:28,895 MECHANICS AND MECHANICAL 16 00:00:28,895 --> 00:00:30,730 THINGS, AND THEN WHILE I WAS 17 00:00:30,730 --> 00:00:33,099 ATTENDING COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 18 00:00:33,099 --> 00:00:34,834 I LANDED A JOB AT A CLASSIC 19 00:00:34,834 --> 00:00:36,102 AUTOMOBILE RESTORATION SHOP. 20 00:00:36,102 --> 00:00:37,570 IN PARTICULAR, I WORKED ON 21 00:00:37,570 --> 00:00:39,539 OLD 1950s JAGUARS, 22 00:00:39,539 --> 00:00:40,573 AND THAT WAS WHERE I, 23 00:00:40,573 --> 00:00:41,307 I GUESS YOU CAN SAY, 24 00:00:41,307 --> 00:00:42,175 WORKED PROFESSIONALLY AS 25 00:00:42,175 --> 00:00:43,943 AN AUTOMOBILE MECHANIC 26 00:00:43,943 --> 00:00:45,712 AND RESTORATION SPECIALIST. 27 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:46,946 AND BEING A MECHANIC HAS 28 00:00:46,946 --> 00:00:49,015 BEEN VERY BENEFICIAL TO ME, 29 00:00:49,015 --> 00:00:50,650 I THINK, AS AN ASTRONAUT. 30 00:00:50,650 --> 00:00:52,018 MY FIRST MISSION WAS REPAIR 31 00:00:52,018 --> 00:00:53,420 THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE. 32 00:00:53,420 --> 00:00:55,688 AND I THINK THAT MY SKILLS 33 00:00:55,688 --> 00:00:57,090 AND MY APTITUDE WITH TOOLS 34 00:00:57,090 --> 00:00:58,391 HAD A LOT TO DO WITH 35 00:00:58,391 --> 00:00:59,926 THE ASSIGNMENT TO THAT MISSION, 36 00:00:59,926 --> 00:01:01,694 BECAUSE THE FIRST EVA 37 00:01:01,694 --> 00:01:03,029 THAT WE DID WAS TO REPLACE 38 00:01:03,029 --> 00:01:05,632 THE WIDE FIELD 2 CAMERA. 39 00:01:05,632 --> 00:01:07,667 MY FIRST FLIGHT TO SPACE, 40 00:01:07,667 --> 00:01:10,603 MY FIRST EVA EVER, 41 00:01:10,603 --> 00:01:13,373 MY FIRST TASK IN SPACE WAS 42 00:01:13,373 --> 00:01:15,341 TO GO OUT WITH A WRENCH 43 00:01:15,341 --> 00:01:16,376 AND RELEASE THE BOLT 44 00:01:16,376 --> 00:01:17,944 ON WIDE FIELD CAMERA 2. 45 00:01:17,944 --> 00:01:20,513 AND I WAS DOING MY JOB, 46 00:01:20,513 --> 00:01:21,815 GOT IN MY SUIT THAT DAY, 47 00:01:21,815 --> 00:01:23,917 WENT OUTSIDE, GOT ON THE ARM, 48 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:25,318 GOT MY TOOL OUT, WENT UP TO 49 00:01:25,318 --> 00:01:27,120 THE TELESCOPE, AND TRIED 50 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,354 TO RELEASE THE BOLT, 51 00:01:28,354 --> 00:01:30,156 AND THE BOLT WAS STUCK. 52 00:01:33,893 --> 00:01:34,694 I THINK IT'S JUST 53 00:01:34,694 --> 00:01:35,628 SLIPPING-- YEP. 54 00:01:35,628 --> 00:01:37,130 SO EVENTUALLY THEY SAID, 55 00:01:37,130 --> 00:01:38,164 "OKAY, TAKE THE TORQUE-LIMITERS 56 00:01:38,164 --> 00:01:39,399 "OFF AND JUST, YOU KNOW, 57 00:01:39,399 --> 00:01:40,967 "RELEASE THE BULB." 58 00:01:40,967 --> 00:01:41,701 THERE'S REALLY NO WAY 59 00:01:41,701 --> 00:01:42,435 TO CONTROL WHETHER YOU'RE 60 00:01:42,435 --> 00:01:44,604 GOING TO BREAK IT OR NOT. 61 00:01:44,604 --> 00:01:45,572 AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID-- 62 00:01:45,572 --> 00:01:46,973 I JUST PUT AS MUCH FORCE 63 00:01:46,973 --> 00:01:48,575 INTO IT AS I COULD. 64 00:01:48,575 --> 00:01:51,444 OKAY, HERE WE GO. 65 00:01:53,279 --> 00:01:54,914 I THINK I GOT IT-- IT TURNED-- 66 00:01:54,914 --> 00:01:56,015 IT DEFINITELY TURNED. 67 00:01:56,015 --> 00:01:57,484 YEP, IT TURNED. 68 00:01:57,484 --> 00:02:00,053 THEN LUCKILY, IT CAME LOOSE 69 00:02:00,053 --> 00:02:01,921 INSTEAD OF BREAKING 70 00:02:01,921 --> 00:02:03,122 IN THE TELESCOPE-- IT ACTUALLY 71 00:02:03,122 --> 00:02:04,057 CAME LOOSE AND WE WERE ABLE 72 00:02:04,057 --> 00:02:05,925 TO RETRIEVE IT. 73 00:02:05,925 --> 00:02:07,160 I'M PROUD TO BE A MECHANIC. 74 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:07,994 I'M PROUD TO WORK WITH 75 00:02:07,994 --> 00:02:09,062 MY HANDS. 76 00:02:09,062 --> 00:02:09,929 THAT SKILL SET HAS BEEN 77 00:02:09,929 --> 00:02:10,997 VERY VALUABLE TO ME, AND 78 00:02:10,997 --> 00:02:13,166 WE KNOW FROM ASTRONAUTS THAT 79 00:02:13,166 --> 00:02:14,133 HAVE BEEN TO SPACE STATION 80 00:02:14,133 --> 00:02:15,502 BEFORE US THAT MUCH OF THE WORK 81 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:17,470 THAT WE DO IN SPACE IS ABOUT 82 00:02:17,470 --> 00:02:18,972 KEEPING THE SYSTEMS OPERATING, 83 00:02:18,972 --> 00:02:19,772 KEEPING EXPERIMENTS 84 00:02:19,772 --> 00:02:21,975 OPERATING, WORKING OUTSIDE 85 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:23,409 WITH EXTERNAL REPAIRS 86 00:02:23,409 --> 00:02:25,144 ON EVAs, SPACEWALKS. 87 00:02:25,144 --> 00:02:26,179 AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS 88 00:02:26,179 --> 00:02:27,881 THAT WE DO INVOLVE TOOLS, 89 00:02:27,881 --> 00:02:28,948 AND WORKING WITH TOOLS, 90 00:02:28,948 --> 00:02:29,749 AND MAKING REPAIRS 91 00:02:29,749 --> 00:02:30,984 TO EQUIPMENTS. 92 00:02:30,984 --> 00:02:31,918 I'VE JUST REALLY BEEN LUCKY 93 00:02:31,918 --> 00:02:33,253 IN MY CAREER THAT I HAD 94 00:02:33,253 --> 00:02:34,621 THAT SKILL SET THAT I BROUGHT 95 00:02:34,621 --> 00:02:37,223 WITH ME INTO THE OFFICE. 96 00:02:37,223 --> 00:02:38,291 I'M DREW FEUSTEL, 97 00:02:38,291 --> 00:02:39,626 AND I'M AN ASTRONAUT.