1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:12,912 [ MUSIC ] 2 00:00:12,912 --> 00:00:13,580 >> THE SPACE STATION IS 3 00:00:13,580 --> 00:00:15,482 MUCH BIGGER THAN PEOPLE THINK. 4 00:00:15,482 --> 00:00:16,449 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TELL PEOPLE 5 00:00:16,449 --> 00:00:17,650 THAT I'M GONNA GO LIVE IN SPACE, 6 00:00:17,650 --> 00:00:19,085 THEY'RE PICTURING 7 00:00:19,085 --> 00:00:20,987 THIS TINY THING 8 00:00:20,987 --> 00:00:22,021 WHERE YOU'VE GOTTA 9 00:00:22,021 --> 00:00:23,123 TURN YOUR SHOULDERS-- 10 00:00:23,123 --> 00:00:23,923 "'SCUSE ME, 'SCUSE ME," 11 00:00:23,923 --> 00:00:25,024 TO-TO PASS EACH OTHER 12 00:00:25,024 --> 00:00:25,859 IN THE HALLWAY LIKE 13 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:27,861 A CRAMPED SUBMARINE. 14 00:00:27,861 --> 00:00:30,196 BUT IT'S BIG. 15 00:00:30,196 --> 00:00:33,066 AND YOU CAN SPEND A WHOLE DAY 16 00:00:33,066 --> 00:00:35,034 AND NEVER SEE A CREW MATE 17 00:00:35,034 --> 00:00:38,705 EXCEPT FOR MAYBE A MEAL. 18 00:00:38,705 --> 00:00:39,406 THE OTHER THING 19 00:00:39,406 --> 00:00:41,741 PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE, 20 00:00:41,741 --> 00:00:42,876 IT'S A MACHINE. 21 00:00:42,876 --> 00:00:44,277 JUST LIKE YOUR CAR 22 00:00:44,277 --> 00:00:45,578 OR YOUR HOUSE 23 00:00:45,578 --> 00:00:46,913 OR YOUR AIR CONDITIONER. 24 00:00:46,913 --> 00:00:47,981 IT'S GONNA BREAK, 25 00:00:47,981 --> 00:00:49,249 AND STUFF DOES, IT'S JUST 26 00:00:49,249 --> 00:00:50,683 THE NATURE OF MACHINERY 27 00:00:50,683 --> 00:00:51,418 THAT I'VE-- 'CAUSE PEOPLE 28 00:00:51,418 --> 00:00:53,052 SOMETIMES, "WHAT? IT BROKE? 29 00:00:53,052 --> 00:00:54,020 "WHAT DO YOU MEAN NASA 30 00:00:54,020 --> 00:00:54,654 "HAS A THING THAT'S 31 00:00:54,654 --> 00:00:55,355 "BROKEN IN SPACE?" 32 00:00:55,355 --> 00:00:56,055 WELL, YEAH. 33 00:00:56,055 --> 00:00:57,290 IT'S-IT'S A MACHINE, 34 00:00:57,290 --> 00:00:58,091 IT'S GONNA BREAK 35 00:00:58,091 --> 00:00:59,259 AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO 36 00:00:59,259 --> 00:01:01,961 IS KEEP IT RUNNING. 37 00:01:01,961 --> 00:01:03,363 AT THE END OF THE DAY, 38 00:01:03,363 --> 00:01:04,831 THERE IS SEVERAL THINGS 39 00:01:04,831 --> 00:01:06,065 IN A MISSION THAT REQUIRES 40 00:01:06,065 --> 00:01:07,367 A PERSON TO TURN A WRENCH 41 00:01:07,367 --> 00:01:10,403 AND FIX IT. 42 00:01:10,403 --> 00:01:11,404 ON MY FIRST MISSION, 43 00:01:11,404 --> 00:01:12,472 I WAS A SHUTTLE CREW MEMBER 44 00:01:12,472 --> 00:01:13,506 AND WE'RE HELPING CONSTRUCT 45 00:01:13,506 --> 00:01:14,274 THE SPACE STATION. 46 00:01:14,274 --> 00:01:15,842 MY SECOND MISSION AS A-- 47 00:01:15,842 --> 00:01:17,444 A SPACE STATION CREW MEMBER, 48 00:01:17,444 --> 00:01:18,578 WE WERE JUST KINDA GETTING UP 49 00:01:18,578 --> 00:01:20,246 ON STEP-- ON REALLY 50 00:01:20,246 --> 00:01:22,782 PUSHING THE SCIENCE SYSTEMS 51 00:01:22,782 --> 00:01:23,817 OF THE SPACE STATION 52 00:01:23,817 --> 00:01:25,118 AND GETTING THE MOST OUT OF 53 00:01:25,118 --> 00:01:26,820 ALL OF THE ASSETS THAT 54 00:01:26,820 --> 00:01:28,354 THE SPACE STATION HAS TO GIVE 55 00:01:28,354 --> 00:01:29,989 FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH. 56 00:01:29,989 --> 00:01:31,758 NOW I THINK WE ARE JUST 57 00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:33,226 HUMMIN' ALONG 58 00:01:33,226 --> 00:01:35,361 WITH THE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH. 59 00:01:35,361 --> 00:01:36,463 THE GREATER COMMUNITY 60 00:01:36,463 --> 00:01:38,131 AND PARTICULARLY THE SPECIALISTS 61 00:01:38,131 --> 00:01:39,399 IN-IN BUILDING 30 62 00:01:39,399 --> 00:01:40,133 IN MISSION CONTROL 63 00:01:40,133 --> 00:01:41,034 REALLY KNOW HOW TO RUN 64 00:01:41,034 --> 00:01:41,868 THE SPACE STATION 65 00:01:41,868 --> 00:01:43,002 AND KEEP IT GOING WELL 66 00:01:43,002 --> 00:01:44,270 SO THAT WE CAN DEVOTE 67 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:45,605 TONS OF ASTRONAUT HOURS 68 00:01:45,605 --> 00:01:47,474 TO SCIENCE. 69 00:01:57,217 --> 00:01:59,018 THAT ANNIVERSARY'S KIND OF 70 00:01:59,018 --> 00:02:01,120 SPECIAL TO ME IN THE SENSE THAT 71 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:02,288 BILL SHEPHERD WAS 72 00:02:02,288 --> 00:02:05,124 THE COMMANDER OF EXPEDITION 1, 73 00:02:05,124 --> 00:02:08,027 UNITED STATES NAVY SEAL, 74 00:02:08,027 --> 00:02:09,429 AND I WILL BE THE COMMANDER 75 00:02:09,429 --> 00:02:11,764 OF EXPEDITION 63, 76 00:02:11,764 --> 00:02:13,266 20 YEARS LATER, 77 00:02:13,266 --> 00:02:14,434 A UNITED STATES NAVY SEAL. 78 00:02:14,434 --> 00:02:16,202 SO, UH, THERE HAS BEEN 79 00:02:16,202 --> 00:02:17,337 THREE OF US, 80 00:02:17,337 --> 00:02:18,371 SHEP, MYSELF, 81 00:02:18,371 --> 00:02:19,506 AND NOW JONNY KIM 82 00:02:19,506 --> 00:02:20,507 WHO ALL COME FROM 83 00:02:20,507 --> 00:02:21,574 THE SEAL COMMUNITY 84 00:02:21,574 --> 00:02:23,343 TO-TO BE ASTRONAUTS 85 00:02:23,343 --> 00:02:25,645 AND, UH, I THINK IT'S REALLY 86 00:02:25,645 --> 00:02:26,846 PRETTY COOL THAT 87 00:02:26,846 --> 00:02:28,381 THERE IS THE BOOKENDS OF 88 00:02:28,381 --> 00:02:30,450 THE 20 YEARS OF STATION 89 00:02:30,450 --> 00:02:31,184 WILL BE COMMANDED BY 90 00:02:31,184 --> 00:02:33,119 SHEP AND MYSELF. 91 00:02:33,119 --> 00:02:34,821 WHAT AM I LOOKING FORWARD TO 92 00:02:34,821 --> 00:02:36,389 MOST ON THIS MISSION? 93 00:02:36,389 --> 00:02:38,358 THIS IS MY THIRD ONE 94 00:02:38,358 --> 00:02:40,560 AND I AM GOING INTO IT 95 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,427 WITH THE MINDSET OF 96 00:02:41,427 --> 00:02:42,395 I AM GOING TO CHERISH 97 00:02:42,395 --> 00:02:44,230 EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT I'M THERE 98 00:02:44,230 --> 00:02:44,898 BECAUSE IT MIGHT BE 99 00:02:44,898 --> 00:02:46,332 THE LAST DAYS 100 00:02:46,332 --> 00:02:47,200 THAT I GET TO LOOK OUT 101 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,001 THE CUPOLA WINDOW 102 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:49,502 AND-AND SEE EARTH. 103 00:02:49,502 --> 00:02:50,770 SO I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD 104 00:02:50,770 --> 00:02:52,739 TO APPRECIATING 105 00:02:52,739 --> 00:02:54,440 EVERY ONE OF THOSE DAYS. 106 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,174 I'LL BE HAPPY TO 107 00:02:55,174 --> 00:02:56,476 GET BACK TO EARTH 108 00:02:56,476 --> 00:02:57,877 TO BE WITH MY FAMILY, 109 00:02:57,877 --> 00:02:59,512 BUT I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD 110 00:02:59,512 --> 00:03:00,980 TO VALUING EACH OF THOSE DAYS 111 00:03:00,980 --> 00:03:03,249 WHILE I'M THERE. 112 00:03:05,552 --> 00:03:07,020 I'M ASTRONAUT CHRIS CASSIDY.