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weird the payload Operations Center with

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Lamar Stacy a payload operations

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director and Lamar it looks like we're

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in something of a mission control room

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yes we are this is the you could call

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the Mission Control Center but this is

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our payload Operations Center that we

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used to support science on board the

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International Space Station and we've

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been operating continuously out of this

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facility for the last five years will be

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marking our fifth anniversary this month

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so what kinds of things do you do in

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this room we responsible for making sure

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that we have put together a plan to

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conduct the science operations for all

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the u.s. payloads on board International

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Space Station then we have the resources

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in place such as the crew time to power

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the video the data downlink and all the

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storage items that we need to operate

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the science and to get the scientists

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their results they're looking for about

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how much science are we doing on the

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space station well today will only teach

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crew members on orbit at any given time

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we're getting on the average over the

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direction of an increment to six months

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long about five to six hours per week

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when we get three crew members back on

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for space testing again will you expect

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to see that number rise to perhaps as

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high as 15 tell me a little bit about

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the people in this room and what they do

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I know they're sometimes referred to as

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a third crew member on the space station

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tell me what that means well that means

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the folks here on the ground are working

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closely with the crew to make sure that

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all the sciences accomplished and that

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includes bringing down the video the

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data operating the racks and having

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clear communications with the crew which

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is what this position are PACOM our

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payload communicator does for us all

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right we got Scotty Dave Scotty over

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here right I got it you actually talk to

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the astronauts right yes have a very

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good time doing that you build a

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relationship with them right yes and we

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try to do that in

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we have Kerr training and Houston will

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go down to facilitate the session take

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notes of action items or things like

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that a little bit of what we call

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FaceTime get to know them a little bit

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and then as an increment progresses you

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just start getting know people and they

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get to start to know you now is an

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official business always or do you get

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to really cut up with them sometimes I

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know you like to cut it well there are

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times when we get to loosen up a little

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bit particularly sometimes we do it's a

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little extra things on Saturday and a

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little bit of little bit of free time

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but just have some pep some light banter

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back and forth yeah you have six months

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and maybe at the beginning you kind of

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know these people but at the end they're

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my family right that's about the size of

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it it takes a few weeks typically for

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everybody to get loosened up and into

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what's gonna work for this round and

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then things just a vote from there can

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you tell him I said hi not right now

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they're in priestly wake them up it's

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okay Scotty thank you tell me about some

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of the other positions around here okay

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well sitting up here at the front of the

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room we have our lead increment

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scientist representative who takes care

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of making sure we meet all the science

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goals of the increment and on the other

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side of the room here at the front we

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have our payload rack officer who make

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sure that all the racks and board space

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station are properly providing power and

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other resources operating experiments

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been standing here behind are seated

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here behind me we have our OC or

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operations controller which make sure

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that our activities for today and

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tomorrow are prepared we have the

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procedures in place and all the

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activities ready to perform the science

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operations and in the back of the room

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we have the data management coordinator

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who makes sure that we get all of the

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data in the video in the photography

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from the science to the ground and

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distributed to the payload developers

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after all it be fruitless to do all this

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work and not get them the valuable data

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that we've collected for them and that

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that says a lot to you work real closely

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with people all around the world right

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absolutely scientists all across the US

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and into Europe and we've had one or two

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pilots from Japan and as the space

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station growth will be working more and

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more directly with both the Europeans

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and the Japanese and they contact you

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when they want to find out something

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about their experiment right now it went

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maybe as long as those pillars are

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operating in the u.s. segment or they're

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utilizing US assets we would be the come

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to point we would be the persons they

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would be talking to and there's one man

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in charge right sometimes absolutely hit

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any given time we have our payload

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operations director here on console

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we've taken care to make sure that

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everyone in disc control centers

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performing their job and they are the

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point of authority for the flight

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director they're a member of the flight

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directors team at MCC in there are point

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of commitment to say yes sir we are

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ready to go and you've done this job a

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lot too I've done it for the last five

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years for an international space station

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and hope to be doing it for many more

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sounds like you guys are gonna be around

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a while oh we plan to we'd like to see

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Space Station become fully functional to

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go to assembly complete with both

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European module via Japanese module and

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the Russian science module and to be

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ready to go to sports science one

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hundred percent I want a job as a peck

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on I want to talk to the astronaut

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there is a certification process you

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could go through to do that as long as

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you got the right technical background

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and that's how we get folks into this

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job we look for those with the right

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technical background engineering science

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related others if they qualify and go to

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a certification process which includes

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simulations that we use another room for

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that looks much like this one but

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basically we throw them in there and

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throw a lot of problems at them and see

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if they're ready to cope and know how to

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follow the right processes and

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procedures I'll keep that in mind Lamar

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thanks so much for having us out today

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this is a lot of interesting stuff that

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you have going on here Marshall well

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you're welcome and we look forward to

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having you back for our ten-year

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anniversary those are a couple of really

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great capabilities shared Marshall and

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there's so many more to see find out