1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,740 \h Music. 2 00:00:11,740 --> 00:00:13,880 \h Christopher Blair: Hi, kids. Today we're just a few miles away from 3 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,170 \h NASA's Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. 4 00:00:17,170 --> 00:00:22,230 \h Hi everybody, I'm Chris. Here at the Astrotech facility, NASA brings their satellites and their spacecraft 5 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:25,490 \h for final processing and checkout before they're launched into orbit. 6 00:00:25,490 --> 00:00:29,220 \h Kind of like how you might double check your homework before you turn it in to your teacher. 7 00:00:29,220 --> 00:00:34,780 \h Now, this work is done by NASA engineers and scientists inside what is called a "clean room." 8 00:00:34,780 --> 00:00:40,150 \h No, no, not that kind of a clean room. Totally, totally different, but don't worry about it. 9 00:00:40,150 --> 00:00:44,470 \h A very good a friend of mine is going to take you and I inside one of these NASA clean rooms. 10 00:00:44,470 --> 00:00:48,020 \h My friend just had one stipulation and that was that I needed to wear my clean suit. 11 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:50,990 \h Fortunately for us, I just picked mine up from the cleaners. 12 00:00:50,990 --> 00:00:56,320 \h Bam! Let's go check out some cool space stuff. Barbara Lambert is a multimedia photographer for 13 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,660 \h NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 14 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:03,590 \h She's here working in Cape Canaveral for an upcoming launch and agreed to show us around. 15 00:01:03,590 --> 00:01:04,640 \h Barbara Lambert: Hey. Good morning, Chris. 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,130 \h Christopher Blair: Hello, Barbara. Thanks for meeting us again. 17 00:01:06,130 --> 00:01:09,500 \h We really appreciate it and we're very excited that you're going to show us a NASA clean room. 18 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,430 \h And so, I even printed out my e-mail that would make me remember to bring my 19 00:01:12,430 --> 00:01:15,490 \h clean suit that I picked up this morning from the cleaners. 20 00:01:15,490 --> 00:01:18,970 \h Barbara Lambert: I think you misunderstood. I said you have to wear a clean suit. 21 00:01:18,970 --> 00:01:21,680 \h Christopher Blair: Cleaner than this? I mean, it smells pretty good. 22 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,510 \h Barbara Lambert: I'll tell you what, I'll take you down to the gowning room and I'll show you what I mean. 23 00:01:25,510 --> 00:01:26,870 \h Christopher Blair: OK. Well, that's great. I'll follow you 24 00:01:26,870 --> 00:01:31,520 \h Barbara Lambert: OK. Christopher Blair: Thank you. 25 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,160 \h Barbara Lambert: OK. This is the gowning room. This is where the NASA scientists and 26 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,270 \h engineers come to get dressed before they go into the clean room. 27 00:01:38,270 --> 00:01:39,640 \h Christopher Blair: OK. What's our first step? 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,090 \h Barbara Lambert: Well, the first thing you have to do -- you know, your shoes are pretty dirty right now. 29 00:01:43,090 --> 00:01:46,290 \h So, we need you to go over to the clean station here and get your shoes clean. 30 00:01:46,290 --> 00:01:49,590 \h Christopher Blair: OK. Clean my shoes, sounds good. 31 00:01:49,590 --> 00:01:55,830 \h Oh, this is really neat. I bet teachers would love to have something like this in their classroom to keep the floors clean. 32 00:01:55,830 --> 00:01:58,390 \h OK, great, Barbara, I believe my shoes are clean. So, what's the next step? 33 00:01:58,390 --> 00:02:00,020 \h Barbara Lambert: Well, even though you used the shoe cleaner, 34 00:02:00,020 --> 00:02:03,640 \h I still need you to step on the sticky mat just to get off all the extra dust and dirt. 35 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,610 \h Christopher Blair: OK. And you're right it's very sticky. 36 00:02:05,610 --> 00:02:10,260 \h It's kind of like a glue trap for I guess maybe dirt and maybe gum on the bottom of my shoes. 37 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:12,630 \h Barbara Lambert: OK. Now we get to empty our pockets. 38 00:02:12,630 --> 00:02:14,610 \h Christopher Blair: OK. What are we looking for? Barbara Lambert: Take everything out. 39 00:02:14,610 --> 00:02:15,490 \h Christopher Blair: Everything? 40 00:02:15,490 --> 00:02:15,900 \h Barbara Lambert: Cell phones. 41 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:18,360 \h Christopher Blair: No cell phones, OK. So, those go in here. 42 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,630 \h And I've got a few things. I travel heavy. I have my MP3 player. Barbara Lambert: No. 43 00:02:22,630 --> 00:02:25,860 \h Christopher Blair: No MP3 player, all right. I also have a marker. Barbara Lambert: No. 44 00:02:25,860 --> 00:02:27,680 \h Christopher Blair: Pencil? Barbara Lambert: No. 45 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,260 \h Christopher Blair: Come on. A hairbrush? Barbara Lambert: No. 46 00:02:31,260 --> 00:02:33,410 \h Christopher Blair: A hairclip? Barbara Lambert: Absolutely not! 47 00:02:33,410 --> 00:02:36,560 \h Christopher Blair: My keys? Barbara Lambert: No, they may transmit. You can't take them in. 48 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,940 \h Christopher Blair: How about the lipstick? You know what, 49 00:02:38,940 --> 00:02:42,780 \h let's not worry about that. Barbara Lambert: Why do you have a lipstick? 50 00:02:42,780 --> 00:02:44,300 \h Christopher Blair: It's OK. It's another story. 51 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:46,950 \h Barbara Lambert: OK. Well, you know, the lipstick brings up a good point. 52 00:02:46,950 --> 00:02:50,590 \h You can't take lipstick, you can't take hairspray and you can't take cologne 53 00:02:50,590 --> 00:02:53,860 \h because they can damage the sensitive instruments inside on the spacecraft. 54 00:02:53,860 --> 00:02:55,400 \h Christopher Blair: OK. Well, that's a great tip. I appreciate that. 55 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,790 \h Barbara Lambert: OK. Let's move on. Christopher Blair: All right. 56 00:02:58,790 --> 00:03:01,710 \h Barbara Lambert: Now, this is what I meant when I asked you to wear a clean suit. 57 00:03:01,710 --> 00:03:04,100 \h Christopher Blair: OK, well, yeah. That's definitely different than the suit I have. 58 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:09,080 \h Barbara Lambert: Absolutely. The best thing to do is think about the clean room as being like an operating room. 59 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,890 \h Everything inside has to be squeaky clean to protect the instruments. 60 00:03:12,890 --> 00:03:18,190 \h And just as doctors and nurses have to wear special garments when they go into an operating room to protect the patient, 61 00:03:18,190 --> 00:03:22,140 \h we have to wear special clean room suits so the fibers and the dirt and the hair and 62 00:03:22,140 --> 00:03:25,300 \h everything from your body don't get onto the instruments inside. 63 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:27,190 \h Christopher Blair: OK, great! Barbara Lambert: All right. Well, let's get dressed. 64 00:03:27,190 --> 00:03:47,670 \h Christopher Blair: All right, thanks. Barbara Lambert: Well, after we finish putting on our gloves and our masks. 65 00:03:47,670 --> 00:03:50,960 \h Christopher Blair: OK, I've got my gloves right here. Barbara Lambert: (Laughs) I'm sorry, but you look like a bunny. 66 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,400 \h Christopher Blair: A bunny? Is this a bunny suit? Is that why they call it a bunny suit? 67 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,030 \h Barbara Lambert: Yeah. That's why they call it a bunny suit. 68 00:03:56,030 --> 00:03:59,640 \h Christopher Blair: It that a special pet name? Bunny... pet. Get it? Rim shot! Barbara Lambert: Very funny. 69 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,140 \h Christopher Blair: OK. I've got my gloves on, so what's the next step. Barbara Lambert: OK, we take a shower. 70 00:04:03,140 --> 00:04:05,250 \h Christopher Blair: I just got dressed, Barbara! Are you serious? I shower? 71 00:04:05,250 --> 00:04:07,110 \h I have to take everything off and take another shower? 72 00:04:07,110 --> 00:04:09,130 \h Barbara Lambert: It's not that kind of a shower. It's an air shower. 73 00:04:09,130 --> 00:04:12,890 \h Christopher Blair: An air shower. Yeah, my mom would have bought that! Yeah mom, I'm clean, I took an air shower! 74 00:04:12,890 --> 00:04:14,030 \h Barbara Lambert: All right. Are you ready? 75 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:21,160 \h Christopher Blair: Sure, let's do this. OK. This is the infamous air shower. So, how does this work? Whoa! 76 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:28,650 \h Barbara Lambert: Now you feel the air. The air flows through these jets. There's vaccuum suction at the bottom, 77 00:04:28,650 --> 00:04:35,550 \h so it's blowing off any extra hair or dirt or debris that might be on your garment. So, now you're squeaky clean! 78 00:04:35,550 --> 00:04:38,210 \h Christopher Blair: I'm clean, so now I can see the cool space stuff. Let's go. 79 00:04:38,210 --> 00:04:41,490 \h Barbara Lambert: Absolutely. 80 00:04:41,490 --> 00:04:45,620 \h Christopher Blair: I couldn't help but feel important. Kind of like I had the right stuff as I walked into the clean room, 81 00:04:45,620 --> 00:04:52,320 \h even though I was specifically told by Barbara several times, 'Don't touch anything.' OK, Barbara. 82 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,440 \h That was really interesting. It's cool to see how much work it takes just to get into the facility, 83 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:00,530 \h without even having to work on the spacecraft yet. Wow. 84 00:05:00,530 --> 00:05:05,470 \h Barbara Lambert: Yeah, a lot of people don't realize how much work is involved to manage a spacecraft in a clean room. 85 00:05:05,470 --> 00:05:08,180 \h Christopher Blair: Well, sure. This is NASA, so we actually have a lot of work going on. 86 00:05:08,180 --> 00:05:11,050 \h So, now that we're done, do we just take these off and throw them in the garbage? 87 00:05:11,050 --> 00:05:15,870 \h Barbara Lambert: Oh, absolutely not. We recycle everything and these gowns have to go to a special cleaning facility. 88 00:05:15,870 --> 00:05:20,030 \h Christopher Blair: Oh, well I have the number for my cleaners. I'm sure I have that business card on me. Will that work? 89 00:05:20,030 --> 00:05:21,110 \h Barbara Lambert: No, no. I said special cleaning facility. 90 00:05:21,110 --> 00:05:26,200 \h Christopher Blair: Oh, special cleaning. OK. Well, let's get these off then. Barbara Lambert: OK. 91 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,140 \h Christopher Blair: Well, thanks Barbara. That was really great. I appreciate you taking the time to 92 00:05:29,140 --> 00:05:32,910 \h show us how a clean suit and a clean room are used when we deal with NASA spacecraft. 93 00:05:32,910 --> 00:05:35,730 \h Barbara Lambert: Sure, no problem Chris. Glad to help you. You know, it's part of 94 00:05:35,730 --> 00:05:38,560 \h NASA's mission to work with students and teachers to help improve education. 95 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,010 \h Christopher Blair: Well, that's great because this is an educational show. So, I'll make sure I remember that. 96 00:05:42,010 --> 00:05:42,790 \h Thank you for your time. I appreciate it very much. 97 00:05:42,790 --> 00:05:43,480 \h Barbara Lambert: You're welcome, call me anytime. 98 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,390 \h Christopher Blair: I will, thank you. Bye bye. And thank you for joining us today.