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Good morning, welcome to NASA's 
the Pegasus.

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My name is Joseph Robinson

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I'm the Marine Operations
 Manager on board.

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It's my job to insure the barge 
ready to go at a moment's notice

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for NASA.

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The barge is 310 feet long, its 
got a 50 foot beam

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It's specifically built to ship
core stage.

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We ship parts from here to
Huntsville, Alabama

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Huntsville, Alabama all the way 
down to Kennedy Space Center.

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It's a unique platform and
the crew is nothing but the best

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My name is Jeffery Whitehead and

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I'm the AB on the barge Pegasus.

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What I do on here is the same 
 thing you would see a captain

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do on any other marine vessel

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I manage the deck crew and I
work as a team with the engineer

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on here to make sure the barge
is ready to go and ready to ship

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the rockets.

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Scott Ledet, marine engineer
aboard the NASA barge Pegasus.

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When I came here to do this
I take it a little more personal

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it's a wider scheme and less
room for error than

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on another vessel.

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I mean you're working with
a rocket that everybody has

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poured their heart and soul
and took time away from their

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family to come out an work 
on it, you don't want

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anything to go wrong.

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Stennis to KSC is a pretty nice
trip, we have a couple tugs

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that'll latch on to us over ther
up at Stennis, we'll come out

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the locks and head South on
the Pearl, we'll go out the

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little Rigolets bridge and come
out the Mississippi Pass

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and we meet up with an sea-
going tug out there, and he'll

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hook up to our bridle and he'll
drag us all the down to the

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Florida Straight and take us out
to the East coast of Florida

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and back up, it's usually about 
a 6-day trip.

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And then we get up there and a
couple tugs grab us and they

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bring us on in to KSC.

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We acutally monitor every aspect
of the trip. The people at NASA

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will know the wave heights,
they'll know the temperature

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outside. They'll keep up with
the movement of the barge,

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how much of a list we had to the
port or to the starboard or

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from the bow to the stern.

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And all that is constantly being
monitored and updated.

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Beautiful water, fun trip, we
always have a good time

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good fellowship out there talkin
guys. You really get to know

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each other when you're just sitt
in the ocean like that for

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a few days

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When people come out here and
they look at this barge, I mean,