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the greatest things we accomplish as

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human beings we do as teams

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my name is Steve Bowen I am the

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spacecraft commander of NASA's SpaceX

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Cruise 6 mission to the International

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Space Station

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I was born in Cohasset Massachusetts

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it's a small town on the coast just

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south of Boston I had five brothers and

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sisters I was the fifth of six and uh

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really sort of an idyllic childhood

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when I was getting ready to choose you

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know we're applying for colleges I had

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the good enough grades and I got an

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appointment to U.S Naval Academy so I

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I had done a summer cruise and the

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reason I ended up doing the summer

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cruise on submarines was because the

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ideas interested me the whole concept of

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running a nuclear power plant underwater

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and operating at Sea and so after

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graduation I spent 14 years in the

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submarine Force before I applied to

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become an astronaut

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I never had you know Grand plans of

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growing up and becoming an astronaut but

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I never did anything to preclude that

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either based on what uh how I managed to

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get here it was just curiosity and

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enthusiasm

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I remember on sts-132 I think it was on

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my first spacewalk on that mission and

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there I was overlooking the

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International Space Station as we're

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circling the earth the whole world

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spread out below me and all I could

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think of is

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kind of civilization is this you know I

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grew up carrying buckets of cement and

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here I am on top of the International

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Space Station circling the earth as

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we're doing research you know really to

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make the world a better place and we're

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doing it as a team we're doing it as an

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international team you know it was

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eye-oper I mean it's not something I

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didn't necessarily understand but it's

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really becomes obvious in a moment like

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that and that was absolutely amazing to

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me

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I view myself really as a rookie for the

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International Space Station because I

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was always there basically as a

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construction worker this time I'm

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actually getting the opportunity to

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operate and to be a part of the science

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and be a part of the ISS operations

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that's all new to me and I'm really

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looking forward to being a part of all

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of that and hopefully my bit of space

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flight experience that I've brought

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along with me I can help everybody else

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settle in and step into these operations

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I have a most amazing crew I'll say this

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for all three of my crew members because

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they're actually all pretty amazing

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individuals they each have distinct

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personalities that add so much to the

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crew that ability to function as a group

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is absolutely amazing and when you

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accomplish something as a team there is

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no greater feeling