1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:15,810 \h (Music and sound of space shuttle liftoff) 2 00:00:15,810 --> 00:00:17,400 \h Elmo: How do you spell your name? 3 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,720 \h Astronaut Leland Melvin: What? My name? 4 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,040 \h Elmo: Melvin. Is your last name Melvin? 5 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,580 \h Melvin: You know, people usually confuse it and call me Melvin first instead of Leland. 6 00:00:25,580 --> 00:00:27,460 \h Elmo: Wow. 7 00:00:27,460 --> 00:00:29,910 \h Melvin: You know, Melvin's a first name, Leland Melvin, you know. 8 00:00:29,910 --> 00:00:32,050 \h Elmo: But Elmo's just Elmo. (Laughs) 9 00:00:32,050 --> 00:00:32,980 \h Melvin: Maybe I'll just be Leland then. 10 00:00:32,980 --> 00:00:38,990 \h Elmo: Cool! Well . . . Elmo's wearing a launch, isn't this a launch and entry suit? 11 00:00:38,990 --> 00:00:41,280 \h Melvin: Yes, it's an LES suit and we call it . 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,770 \h Elmo: That's what you call it? An LES? 13 00:00:42,770 --> 00:00:48,370 \h Melvin: LES, launch and entry suit. LES. And it's orange. 14 00:00:48,370 --> 00:00:52,980 \h Elmo: Well, when do you, when do astronauts wear launch and entry suits? 15 00:00:52,980 --> 00:00:56,860 \h Melvin: We wear the launch and entry suits, Elmo, when we launch . . . 16 00:00:56,860 --> 00:00:58,610 \h Elmo: I see, when you launch, when you go up. 17 00:00:58,610 --> 00:01:01,600 \h Melvin: Yeah, we go up, and then when we enter, come back home. 18 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:02,680 \h Elmo: Oh. 19 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,650 \h Melvin: And the suit can be pressurized, can be blown up a little bit. 20 00:01:05,650 --> 00:01:06,920 \h Elmo: Why? 21 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:11,930 \h Melvin: Because if you lose pressure in the shuttle, then you'll have pressure in the suit. 22 00:01:11,930 --> 00:01:13,210 \h Elmo: Oh! 23 00:01:13,210 --> 00:01:14,960 \h Melvin: Because you want to be under pressure. 24 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:16,200 \h Elmo: Why? 25 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,620 \h Melvin: Because. It's a good thing. 26 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:21,660 \h Elmo: Oh, Elmo hopes so. Don't you call this something else? 27 00:01:21,660 --> 00:01:27,580 \h Melvin: It's also called a pumpkin suit. Wonder why? Why is it called a pumpkin suit? 28 00:01:27,580 --> 00:01:29,860 \h Elmo: Because it looks like something you'd wear during Halloween? 29 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:32,090 \h Melvin: Exactly. It's orange and black. 30 00:01:32,090 --> 00:01:33,700 \h Elmo: No! Elmo was just kidding! 31 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:35,710 \h Melvin: No, you're right. Elmo's smart. 32 00:01:35,710 --> 00:01:37,580 \h Elmo: That's cool! 33 00:01:37,580 --> 00:01:40,600 \h Melvin: Yeah, we wear this. We have a helmet that goes on, 34 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,080 \h that keeps everything pressurized and we come home in this and we launch in this. 35 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:45,350 \h Elmo: Wow 36 00:01:45,350 --> 00:01:47,000 \h Melvin: You look really good in it, too. 37 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,040 \h Elmo: Elmo loves the collar. Collar is really cool. 38 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,330 \h Melvin: The puffy collar? 39 00:01:52,330 --> 00:01:54,080 \h Elmo: Yeah. 40 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,890 \h Melvin: Yeah, it's pretty cool. You look cool in it Elmo. 41 00:01:55,890 --> 00:01:58,700 \h Elmo: Thanks for teaching Elmo about these really cool suits. 42 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:01,020 \h Melvin: Yeah, no problem. 43 00:02:01,020 --> 00:02:02,620 \h Elmo: When do you wear the blue one? 44 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:06,640 \h Melvin: You wear the blue suit when you come to talk to people like Elmo, and . . . 45 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:08,950 \h Elmo: So that's the formal wear. 46 00:02:08,950 --> 00:02:14,110 \h Melvin: Yeah, that's our formal wear. And when you're flying on the NASA T-38 jet, 47 00:02:14,110 --> 00:02:19,660 \h which are high performance jets. So if, if something caught on fire, this does not burn. 48 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:21,450 \h It has something called Nomax in it. 49 00:02:21,450 --> 00:02:22,560 \h Elmo: Nomax? 50 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,790 \h Melvin: Nomax. So it keeps it from burning, so your skin won't burn. 51 00:02:25,790 --> 00:02:28,110 \h Elmo: What about the white one? When do you wear the white one? 52 00:02:28,110 --> 00:02:32,540 \h Melvin: The white one, those are when you're doing a spacewalk. 53 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:35,720 \h Elmo: Really? When you're outside of a spaceship? 54 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,960 \h Melvin: When you're floating in space and you're actually outside the spaceship. 55 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,880 \h And that suit is pressurized, too. And you can float around, you can work. 56 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,690 \h The elbows are hinged, so you can move your elbows around. 57 00:02:48,690 --> 00:02:50,260 \h Elmo: And you have air conditioning in that? 58 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:55,580 \h Melvin: You have air conditioning, you have heating. 59 00:02:55,580 --> 00:02:56,640 \h You have water, you can actually drink water in there. 60 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:57,680 \h Elmo: Where? 61 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,790 \h Melvin: It's its own little spacesuit, or your own spaceship. 62 00:02:59,790 --> 00:03:04,300 \h Elmo: Well Mr. Leland, how do you use the bathroom in there? 63 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:05,650 \h Melvin: You use a diaper. 64 00:03:05,650 --> 00:03:08,660 \h Elmo: Really? 65 00:03:08,660 --> 00:03:11,470 \h Melvin: Yeah, I mean, you've got to 66 00:03:11,470 --> 00:03:12,480 \h Elmo: It's just like being a baby! 67 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,410 \h Melvin: A baby astronaut! 68 00:03:14,410 --> 00:03:15,280 \h Elmo: Yes! 69 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,770 \h Melvin: That's right, a baby astronaut!