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aboard the international space station

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expedition 24 flight engineer shannon

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walker the first nasa astronaut who is a

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native houstonian was joined by her

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crewmates tracy caldwell dyson and doug

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wheelock as she fielded questions from

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kprct houston during an in-flight

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interview on august 30th 2010.

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walker arrived on the station with

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wheelock in june and will return to

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earth in late november caldwell dyson

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arrived on the complex in april and will

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return to earth in late september

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joining me now from the international

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space station are the flight engineers

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from expedition 24. tracy caldwell dyson

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douglas wheeler and shannon walker how

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we're doing very well thank you

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thank you

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we want to first start with shannon we

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know you're a native houstonian shannon

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how does it feel to represent the space

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well i'm i'm very proud to be here and

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to be a native houstonian and to

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represent houston up here in space it's

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thanks now can you tell us a little bit

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about your life growing up in houston

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where you went to high school and

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well i suppose my life was pretty

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typical growing up in houston i went to

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westbury high school and then went on to

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okay shannon i know it's your first trip

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into space what's it been like for you

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it's been absolutely wonderful up here

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every day it seems like i'm learning

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something new about how to operate

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better in space

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we're just busy all the time taking care

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of the science and taking care of the

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station and it's it's it's just a

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and shannon we all know this is your

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first time up there is another question

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well i have a few pictures of family and

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friends but uh there's not a lot of room

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right now okay we're gonna get to a

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serious question all of you guys went

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through a tense situation a few weeks

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ago when there were some problems with

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the spacion's cooling system were you

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able what were your roles in the repairs

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it is fixed now and uh we're we're glad

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of that it did there were was a couple

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of a couple of weeks there where it's

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touch and go

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uh we had alarms that woke us woke us up

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and uh just before we were getting ready

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to go to bed and we had a pump module

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that failed outside and

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it really put the team in a very

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challenging

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situation but we were able to come

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through and

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get it repaired and we're back to doing

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okay thanks glad to hear that now when

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do you all get back to to come to earth

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well courtney some of us are coming back

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sooner than others uh myself alexander

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schwarzoff and mikhail konienko are

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returning in a couple of weeks uh

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docking on september 24th and returning

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uh i'll be returning to houston uh

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shortly after that

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and uh for doug and shannon

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okay thanks tracy and i have to say by

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the way i love the hair shannon one more

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question for you do you have any

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messages for people back home who might

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oh well

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for people back home i think

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they should be proud of nasa and proud

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of what we're accomplishing on the space

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oh thank you so much shannon and thank

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you all for joining us we really

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appreciate you taking the time out to