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my name is tom marshburn i'm the pilot

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of nasa's spacex crew 3 mission to the

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international space station not quite

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sure why spaceflight grabbed me the way

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it did it found me really

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more than me deciding to become

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fascinated with it

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there's something about leaving

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everything we know behind everything not

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just our friends or family or home but

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even the planet

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going to places that we knew almost

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nothing about at the time i was reading

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about it

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and understanding how somebody could

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change so it was almost like going up

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into heaven or something and coming back

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that was just infinitely fascinating to

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me

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i have three brothers and three sisters

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five of them had decided to become

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doctors so the one thing i knew i was

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never going to be was a doctor because i

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didn't want to be just like them

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but while i was in graduate school in

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engineering physics i realized that

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everybody was hanging out with everybody

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i enjoyed being with were either medical

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students or doctors maybe medicine

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something for me and turned out i loved

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it got so immersed with it that i

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actually forgot about space for a few

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years began to practice after that in

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toledo ohio where they had a life flight

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program and that's where i did my

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residency for emergency medicine i

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wanted to fly

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and so i applied for the first class of

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what was then the space medicine

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fellowship and in 93 i showed up at nasa

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i was all starry-eyed excited and ready

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to

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start learning about space medicine i

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got to know the patients i got to know

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the astronauts and the pilots that i

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would be working with later and that was

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enormous amount of fun one of my first

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jobs then as a flight surgeon was to get

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shipped out to russia to support the

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phase one program which is when we took

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nasa astronauts put them on the mir

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space station so that we could learn

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about long-duration space flight before

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we started sending astronauts to the

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international space station

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there's something about working at

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johnson space center i think that if

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anybody had ever considered flying in

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space or wanting to when you show up and

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you see the incredible things that

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everybody is doing it's hard not to get

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the bug to want to apply and become an

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so i did three space walks and supported

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a fourth as the inside crew member the

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main goal for us was to take these

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batteries each weighing about 200 250

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pounds and move them from the robotic

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arm that was holding them from the space

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shuttle and moved them on to the space

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station this had not been done before so

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they're very thrilling

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the long duration mission is quite a bit

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different from the shuttle mission you

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really feel like you've become a

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resident of space a resident of zero g

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and you start to feel like you're

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getting an idea of how this works

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i'm looking forward more to flying with

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three people that haven't flown in space

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before this is a very unique crew they

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are incredibly operationally savvy

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already those i imagine from their prior

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jobs at esa and in the military i know

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they can do the job there's no question

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about that

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[Music]

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one of the great legacies of the space

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station is not just going to be

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science but very importantly the

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international cooperation it's not for

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survival it's not for competition in the

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marketplace it is for

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just exploration and it's just a vibrant

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wonderful place where great science is