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this is the sts-133 interview with

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mission specialist dr michael barrett uh

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mike tell us tell us about your hometown

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what it was like growing up there and

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and how that place influenced you well

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my hometown was canvas washington up in

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washington state in the southern

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southwestern area around right around

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the columbia river very beautiful very

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green farming community and it was just

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a perfect upbringing just working on the

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farm and going to school

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we learned about building and repairing

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and maintenance and taking care of

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animals along with just the standard

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educational stuff and it was just a

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perfect place to grow up

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okay so that that

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the opportunity probably to have

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hands-on with doing things i'm sure that

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that helped oh absolutely

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on the farm you're always fixing things

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and the same is more or less true on

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space station so

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i think it definitely prepared me well

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we grew up knowing how to use tools and

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both of my parents worked in spite of

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having a farm so we also grew up knowing

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how to prepare meals and and run a

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household so i think for my two brothers

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and it was perfect preparation for a lot

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of different paths okay

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did you have a chance to to see that

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region uh from space at all oh i sure

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did any chance that i got i would pretty

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much look at the passes that we would be

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taking over the pacific northwest and i

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was always ready with a camera

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it's a it's called the evergreen state

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for a reason there's quite a bit of rain

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there and that keeps our forests

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beautiful so it also makes it very

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difficult to photograph much of the year

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but fortunately i was up there

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throughout the summer and i was able to

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take lots of photographs during really

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clear weather i could see my hometown

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the little lake i grew up on so yeah

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lots of good imagery what was the

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reaction when you when you the first

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time you saw it and just realizing hey

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i'm i'm way up here and i was there well

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first reaction was gosh we're going over

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this awfully fast you get your camera

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ready and you take a couple of pictures

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and you're already gone

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the good thing is that it looks just as

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beautiful from space as it does from the

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ground from where you live in there so

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it's just natural beauty of that region

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recount for us um the steps that that

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you've taken uh in your professional

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career that that have led you here to

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nasa

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well interestingly i i probably uh have

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a story common to a lot of the people in

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the astronaut corps and that we go

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through career crisis because we have so

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many broad interests a lot of us

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are interested in science and technology

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but we're also interested in in flying

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and engineering and practical things

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and i don't think i knew what i wanted

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to be when i grew up until i was in my

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mid-30s or so

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i wanted to be a marine biologist at one

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time an astronomer an archaeologist and

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university of washington my focus was

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marine zoology

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late during my undergrad years i started

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getting interested in space and the more

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i went through medical school i realized

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that space is a field that puts so many

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things together that that i love

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and i ended up in

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specializing in internal medicine mostly

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to learn pathophysiology well that i

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could then apply to the space program

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and then i went to a formal aerospace

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medical program in

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ohio at wright state university in

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wright-patterson air force base

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and the closer i got the more i realized

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that my suspicions were correct that

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nothing puts everything together like

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the aerospace industry and having spent

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about nine years as a flight surgeon

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here and then coming to the astronaut

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corps

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that strengthened all of those

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suspicions we use

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biomedical science of course all of

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these things are all together into one

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job there's nothing better than that

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then that obviously made it very

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attractive then to because you had all

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these interests yeah absolutely

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absolutely and i think i found my peers

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the same way who really didn't know what

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they wanted to be necessarily because

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everything interests them and again this

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rolls it all together so i'm with a

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bunch of people who

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have solved their career anxiety by

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coming to uh johnson space center okay

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what then was it that that that

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motivated you to

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to want to apply to

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going to the astronaut corps and and

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tell us that story

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i came down here to do space medicine my

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express interest and passion and it was

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space medicine is space medicine to me

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it's just one of the most amazing

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specialties

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that you could possibly imagine

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working the long duration flights with

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the russians in the shuttle mirror

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program that i came to a couple of

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realizations first of all

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if we want to get somewhere out of low

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earth orbit it's probably going to

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involve long periods of space flight and

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in particular long periods of

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weightlessness going to mars

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going to asteroids and further

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and that's why the long duration flight

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experience with the russians and of

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course eventually the international

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space station really started to interest

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to really understand this environment

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you really need to experience it

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yourself and that's what really

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motivated me to apply obviously i'd

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been close to the program met a lot of

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the astronauts in the office and got to

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understand what their job was like i

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could potentially see myself fitting

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into that job although i didn't think

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there was much of a chance of being

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accepted but that was really the draw

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tell us how you would characterize the

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value of education uh in your life oh

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without i mean education of course gives

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you the tools to act on your interests

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i think uh you don't have to come from

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an educational powerhouse to be educated

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pursue things that really interest you

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and pursue your dreams if you will i

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came from a fairly small community with

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good solid schools no question about it

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not wealthy schools but very good

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idealistic teachers

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and they empowered me to really act on

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all those various interests that i had

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education is is an absolute right to

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people everybody should have the right

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to pursue those dreams and again just to

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be empowered to do that education is is

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international space station as a member

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of the expeditions 19 and 20 crew uh

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talk about that time how it was living

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and working on iss and and how

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actually getting to that environment

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like you said and experiencing it for

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what were your thoughts about that

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well that's a great question i think

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flying in space is a wonderful

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experience for anybody no matter what

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their background but as a space medical

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my flight experience was like a dream

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come true first of all it was a good

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long flight i spent 199 days in space

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and i had a tremendous crew

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we saw the transition from three people

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to six people as a permanent crew so

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that was very interesting

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i saw 22 other people during my flight

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experience besides myself

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so i was able to kind of personally look

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at my own adaptation process both

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physiologic what the body does in

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then i saw that in various other people

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as well people who had had rich flight

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experiences had spent over a year in

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space like my commander gennady padalka

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people who were doing their first space

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flights and only being there for a short

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period of time and all of these folks

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observations some recommendations if you

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systematically write down some of these

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milestones that i otherwise wouldn't

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have been able to do without being up

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little pearls to others who fly and help

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and be good performers quicker okay

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that's right tell us about that the

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anticipation with that what are you what

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are your thoughts about that well

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it again it will be my first shuttle

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flight first of all i never expected to

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have a shuttle flight when i went away

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we already knew that the shuttle program

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was winding down and i actually recycled

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all of my shuttle training materials

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before i got on the plane to go to

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russia because i thought that door had

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been closed so i was very very surprised

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shocked if you will to be assigned to a

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shuttle flight before i even landed then

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of course i had to scramble to find my

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chance to fly on a brand new vehicle and

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to learn a new system obviously was was

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a wonderful thing and i'm really

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enjoying that right now with my crew

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the other thing is that i've already

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been in space so a lot of the anxieties

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the load to orbit that it does the

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number of people that it does it's a

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very complex machine and i'm really

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looking forward to flying in that okay

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everyone on this crew has has been to

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space before uh including three crew

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members including yourself who've spent

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have veteran crew members on on a flight

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and our flight happens to be all

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veterans it's a bit of a luxury in a way

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the experience for nicole stott and tim

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copra happened to coincide with my

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flight so not only do we all have that

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long duration experience we know how

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each other works how one another works

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up there and how to work together and so

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i think that's a tremendous benefit as

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we start doing training

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events together we already know how to

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communicate with one another we know one

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another's habits and i think we work

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very effectively and efficiently so uh

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training in preparation for this flight

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has been very very smooth largely

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because of that okay

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and speaking of the training the content

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of the mission has changed

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since she began training and it's

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as we speak i'm sure probably still

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being

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solidified

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has it been

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have there been much many challenges

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into

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i guess uh adjusting to those changes at

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all well the changes are are good news

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for us because

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our flight has been extended we have an

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11-day mission now rather than an

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eight-day mission and that's because the

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addition of two spacewalks that tim

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copra and al drew will be doing so we're

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actually very happy to get those

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and the training

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flow hasn't really extended that much

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we've added six weeks or so and the pace

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of training is already fairly

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comfortable and so to get that extra

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time to fit these training events in

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i think helps us out a lot we'll have a

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good pace but not an exhausting pace and

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getting ready for a flight so we're

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actually very happy to have the

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additional spacewalks and and some of

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the robotics activities that go with

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that

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tell us how you would uh characterize

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the contributions of the thousands of

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people who work behind the scenes to

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ensure the success and safety

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of the crew in every mission

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as we've prepared for our shuttle

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mission we've certainly gone to visit

339
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some of these places we just got back

340
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from the kennedy space center here

341
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recently to look at discovery

342
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we went to michoud to look at our

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external tank and met with the workers

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who are getting that all prepared and

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the one thing that really strikes you

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aside from the fact that they're very

347
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professional experience is that they're

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very dedicated

349
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and almost everybody there is working

350
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extra hours and and going extra miles to

351
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make everything work and this is not a

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new thing that's their standard

353
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operating curve

354
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everybody keeps their head in the game

355
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and the orbiters have been looking very

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very clean recently and largely uh

357
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because of that when you look at the

358
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fact that the the program is winding

359
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down and everybody's aware of that but

360
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then you look at the quality

361
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metrics if you will with the uh

362
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uh

363
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indicators that tell you what shape the

364
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orbiter and its parts are in there

365
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they're very very good nobody has

366
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let me rephrase that everybody is just

367
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maintaining an incredibly high if not

368
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higher standard of professionalism

369
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to keep this program running so we we

370
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have nothing but admiration and

371
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gratitude for what these people do it's

372
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i would have to say that uh of all that

373
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nasa is our hardware our technology our

374
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exploration

375
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it's our people and our brain trust that

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probably constitute the greatest

377
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treasure and you know these people who

378
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process the orbiters and our payloads

379
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if your launch schedule holds you're

380
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scheduled to be on orbit

381
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right around the time of the 10th

382
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anniversary of the arrival of expedition

383
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one that's the crew that established

384
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continuous human presence on iss right

385
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discuss the the significance of of the

386
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their milestone uh and um the uh

387
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the future of how space station's gonna

388
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to

389
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help the future of space exploration

390
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well i think 10 years is a huge

391
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milestone and it's not just an

392
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anniversary of a platform we put up

393
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there and and put people on and they did

394
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work

395
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this program this platform has grown

396
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tremendously during that 10-year period

397
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it continues to add in size and

398
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complexity it's been continually manned

399
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through that 10-year period which is an

400
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amazing thing

401
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and the maturity of the program i think

402
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is what really shows after 10 years

403
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you

404
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have a tremendous challenge in front of

405
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you to plan out every

406
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every turn of a screw every push of a

407
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button

408
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every opening of a power channel that

409
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makes a space station work it's the

410
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things you don't anticipate that really

411
00:14:53,110 --> 00:14:50,320
challenge you and after 10 years we have

412
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learned how to work in space and how to

413
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solve problems that we didn't anticipate

414
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and only experience teaches you that and

415
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the 10 years of experience we've accrued

416
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on space station has just made us so

417
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much better

418
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you uh you can look at the maturity by

419
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just the day-to-day operations right now

420
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and

421
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filling six people's timeline with

422
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science and maintenance activities and

423
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all the people on the ground that have

424
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to come together to make that work it's

425
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like conducting a symphony and and it

426
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works very well right now so aside from

427
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the fact that we did what we said we

428
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were going to do we've also done a lot

429
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of things we didn't anticipate that we

430
00:15:29,350 --> 00:15:28,079
were going to do and and are very much

431
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richer for it

432
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that's the kind of experience that you

433
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need

434
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to go further when you are fielding new

435
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systems and feeling new

436
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operational

437
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procedures if you will plans you really

438
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have to have that base of experience to

439
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do it confidently and station has given

440
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us that and will continue to give us

441
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tell us if you will in a nutshell what

442
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the what the key objectives are for

443
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sts-133

444
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sds-133 will be delivering a

445
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multi-purpose

446
00:16:04,389 --> 00:16:01,120
logistics module which is being

447
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converted into a permanent module and

448
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that will actually stay on the station

449
00:16:10,550 --> 00:16:09,040
normally these modules take cargo up and

450
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and bring them back

451
00:16:14,790 --> 00:16:12,959
this one is being converted into

452
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a closet if you will a really

453
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magnificent closet

454
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that will allow storage and we really

455
00:16:24,470 --> 00:16:21,360
need storage room on the international

456
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station so the pmm as it's called will

457
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be attached to node one and stay there

458
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is probably the the last largest u.s

459
00:16:34,069 --> 00:16:32,000
piece that will add to the station's uh

460
00:16:36,550 --> 00:16:34,079
structure we're also taking up an

461
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express logistics carrier with a large

462
00:16:40,949 --> 00:16:39,120
radiator on it and we'll be attaching

463
00:16:42,790 --> 00:16:40,959
that to the truss and that radiator will

464
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be available as a spare for the station

465
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as we need it and a lot of cargo

466
00:16:49,749 --> 00:16:47,440
transfer as for every shuttle that

467
00:16:51,670 --> 00:16:49,759
visits the station now we bring

468
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pressurized cargo from

469
00:16:55,749 --> 00:16:53,920
whatever modules we're taking up and we

470
00:16:57,749 --> 00:16:55,759
transfer that to the station

471
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we bring water to the station which we

472
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produce on the space shuttle with our

473
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fuel cells and very importantly the

474
00:17:06,870 --> 00:17:04,799
shuttle will be able to return things

475
00:17:08,789 --> 00:17:06,880
from the space station to the ground a

476
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lot of science results for instance

477
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consist of frozen samples which we'll be

478
00:17:15,110 --> 00:17:13,280
transferring to our glacier freezer on

479
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the shuttle mid deck and bringing those

480
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down to the ground for analysis and that

481
00:17:20,069 --> 00:17:18,480
helps us to complete a lot of our

482
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biomedical science

483
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so our mission has a lot of

484
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diverse aspects about it the things that

485
00:17:28,630 --> 00:17:26,319
really make space flight wonderful cargo

486
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transfer new modules

487
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the big logistics carrier and science

488
00:17:35,990 --> 00:17:33,360
transfer okay

489
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uh and as mission specialist three uh on

490
00:17:40,870 --> 00:17:38,400
the flight tell us what some of your key

491
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responsibilities are for the mission

492
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my responsibilities are a bit diverse i

493
00:17:47,510 --> 00:17:45,280
think like everybody's and again that's

494
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what makes the flight experience quite

495
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wonderful i'll be doing a lot of

496
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robotics activities um helping to

497
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install the pmm into its permanent place

498
00:17:58,230 --> 00:17:55,919
and i'll be actually flying tim copper

499
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around on the station arm as he goes

500
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about his eva work which for me will be

501
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very interesting and very exciting

502
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i will be in charge of the the

503
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after launch so as we call the post

504
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insertion plan and getting the orbiter

505
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ready to be a spaceship rather than a

506
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rocket ship that goes to the atmosphere

507
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and then at the end of the mission

508
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uh helping to turn us back into a an

509
00:18:22,549 --> 00:18:19,919
airplane a space plane

510
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to get ready to deorbit and land

511
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i'll be obviously the crew medical

512
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officer on board doing some science

513
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experiments as well and um

514
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various other sundry

515
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things can't they get too much else okay

516
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food guy food guy yeah yeah that's

517
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us

518
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a little bit about how the the pmm um

519
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differs um

520
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i guess in in form how it's been

521
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outfitted or retrofitted uh to be

522
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different from an mplm

523
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to make it a permanent part of the

524
00:19:02,630 --> 00:18:59,600
station

525
00:19:04,470 --> 00:19:02,640
well the mplms of course are designed to

526
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take cargo up and bring them back so

527
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they never spend

528
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much more than

529
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10 days or so on station and so they're

530
00:19:14,390 --> 00:19:12,559
they're built accordingly uh to leave

531
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one up there permanently and and these

532
00:19:18,070 --> 00:19:16,559
when they go up are roughly 22 000

533
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pounds so we're talking about a fairly

534
00:19:22,390 --> 00:19:20,320
large module to leave one permanently

535
00:19:23,270 --> 00:19:22,400
you have to shield it against some of

536
00:19:26,950 --> 00:19:23,280
the

537
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that you didn't need to

538
00:19:30,950 --> 00:19:28,799
for a short period of time

539
00:19:33,110 --> 00:19:30,960
we had to add some shielding for micro

540
00:19:34,950 --> 00:19:33,120
meteoroid protection there's a lot of

541
00:19:35,830 --> 00:19:34,960
debris flying around in low earth orbit

542
00:19:37,270 --> 00:19:35,840
and

543
00:19:39,270 --> 00:19:37,280
we have to give it a little bit better

544
00:19:40,789 --> 00:19:39,280
shielding to stay up there permanently

545
00:19:42,789 --> 00:19:40,799
and also

546
00:19:45,510 --> 00:19:42,799
we had to condition it for the heat

547
00:19:47,350 --> 00:19:45,520
cycles and a few days of heat cycling

548
00:19:49,510 --> 00:19:47,360
between the extremes of being in the sun

549
00:19:51,750 --> 00:19:49,520
up there which can give you 150 degrees

550
00:19:53,669 --> 00:19:51,760
centigrade and then being in shadow

551
00:19:54,950 --> 00:19:53,679
which can be minus 150 degrees

552
00:19:56,710 --> 00:19:54,960
centigrade

553
00:19:58,310 --> 00:19:56,720
you have to protect against that if

554
00:20:01,110 --> 00:19:58,320
you're planning to keep a module up

555
00:20:03,590 --> 00:20:01,120
there continually we've had to change

556
00:20:04,950 --> 00:20:03,600
some of the ventilation in there and

557
00:20:07,110 --> 00:20:04,960
change some of the electronics and the

558
00:20:09,830 --> 00:20:07,120
control aspects of it

559
00:20:12,149 --> 00:20:09,840
but for the most part the mplm was very

560
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amenable to this kind of change and all

561
00:20:16,789 --> 00:20:14,240
that i mentioned has not taken the

562
00:20:19,110 --> 00:20:16,799
italian space agency very long to effect

563
00:20:21,029 --> 00:20:19,120
so it tells you that the modules are

564
00:20:22,870 --> 00:20:21,039
already fairly robust and we're quite

565
00:20:24,230 --> 00:20:22,880
amenable to leaving up there on a

566
00:20:25,270 --> 00:20:24,240
permanent basis

567
00:20:26,870 --> 00:20:25,280
and i believe

568
00:20:29,270 --> 00:20:26,880
that the leonardo module that we're

569
00:20:31,909 --> 00:20:29,280
taking up has already flown seven times

570
00:20:33,590 --> 00:20:31,919
so this is a very experienced module its

571
00:20:35,830 --> 00:20:33,600
final flight i believe its eighth flight

572
00:20:38,710 --> 00:20:35,840
will be to park it and become a big part

573
00:20:39,590 --> 00:20:38,720
of the space station so okay

574
00:20:41,430 --> 00:20:39,600
uh

575
00:20:43,990 --> 00:20:41,440
your crew is also scheduled to deliver

576
00:20:44,870 --> 00:20:44,000
robonaut uh r2 uh tell us what you know

577
00:20:47,590 --> 00:20:44,880
about

578
00:20:50,870 --> 00:20:47,600
its purpose and and the plan for it well

579
00:20:53,590 --> 00:20:50,880
robonaut r2 is very interesting

580
00:20:56,549 --> 00:20:53,600
uh we've been looking at ways to

581
00:20:58,310 --> 00:20:56,559
help the human in space flight and

582
00:21:00,710 --> 00:20:58,320
it's probably no coincidence that as you

583
00:21:02,230 --> 00:21:00,720
look at the human tasks that are

584
00:21:05,110 --> 00:21:02,240
required for space flight and you look

585
00:21:07,909 --> 00:21:05,120
at a machine if you will that will help

586
00:21:09,830 --> 00:21:07,919
with that it starts to resemble a human

587
00:21:12,789 --> 00:21:09,840
for the higher fidelity support that it

588
00:21:15,270 --> 00:21:12,799
can give the human so robonaut 2 indeed

589
00:21:17,750 --> 00:21:15,280
becomes the first humanoid robot in

590
00:21:18,710 --> 00:21:17,760
space so we're very excited about that

591
00:21:20,870 --> 00:21:18,720
and

592
00:21:23,270 --> 00:21:20,880
unfortunately we won't be able to

593
00:21:25,669 --> 00:21:23,280
unpack it and use it it'll be a complex

594
00:21:27,110 --> 00:21:25,679
process and we'll go on for for future

595
00:21:28,630 --> 00:21:27,120
station crews

596
00:21:31,110 --> 00:21:28,640
with any luck some of us will get back

597
00:21:33,669 --> 00:21:31,120
on station and be able to see it but

598
00:21:34,870 --> 00:21:33,679
robonaut becomes the first test bed to

599
00:21:37,669 --> 00:21:34,880
really

600
00:21:40,310 --> 00:21:37,679
see what a dexterous humanoid robot can

601
00:21:42,070 --> 00:21:40,320
do in space robonaut is is very

602
00:21:43,830 --> 00:21:42,080
impressive to me as a medical doctor i

603
00:21:46,310 --> 00:21:43,840
was able to look at it shake hands with

604
00:21:47,750 --> 00:21:46,320
it and one of the first things i noted

605
00:21:49,909 --> 00:21:47,760
was that the

606
00:21:50,789 --> 00:21:49,919
control actuators in the fingers are

607
00:21:54,870 --> 00:21:50,799
very

608
00:21:57,590 --> 00:21:54,880
the tendons in a human hand

609
00:22:00,070 --> 00:21:57,600
and they can vary the sensitivity in the

610
00:22:01,430 --> 00:22:00,080
grip on this just like a human would do

611
00:22:02,870 --> 00:22:01,440
when it's doing different different

612
00:22:04,230 --> 00:22:02,880
tasks

613
00:22:06,070 --> 00:22:04,240
some things require more manual

614
00:22:07,909 --> 00:22:06,080
dexterity less force some things

615
00:22:10,149 --> 00:22:07,919
obviously a little bit more force and

616
00:22:12,549 --> 00:22:10,159
robonaut can be smart enough to know

617
00:22:14,230 --> 00:22:12,559
when to use more and less force

618
00:22:17,029 --> 00:22:14,240
so i think it's very exciting to be able

619
00:22:20,390 --> 00:22:17,039
to test bed these concepts with robonaut

620
00:22:21,350 --> 00:22:20,400
2 with r2 rather and see what it can do

621
00:22:23,270 --> 00:22:21,360
i think

622
00:22:24,630 --> 00:22:23,280
we will see the beginning of a very long

623
00:22:26,950 --> 00:22:24,640
and fruitful

624
00:22:30,390 --> 00:22:26,960
life as we develop the the technologies

625
00:22:33,430 --> 00:22:30,400
to make a humanoid robot useful in space

626
00:22:37,029 --> 00:22:35,510
on the day after you make it to orbit

627
00:22:38,789 --> 00:22:37,039
the crew is scheduled to do an

628
00:22:41,190 --> 00:22:38,799
inspection of the shuttle's exterior

629
00:22:43,190 --> 00:22:41,200
tiles what tell us about your day today

630
00:22:44,950 --> 00:22:43,200
what are you involved with that day

631
00:22:47,430 --> 00:22:44,960
well the second day

632
00:22:48,630 --> 00:22:47,440
is a very busy day a lot of different

633
00:22:50,549 --> 00:22:48,640
activities

634
00:22:52,390 --> 00:22:50,559
mostly getting ready for

635
00:22:53,669 --> 00:22:52,400
the docking and the transfer activities

636
00:22:54,789 --> 00:22:53,679
that we're going to be doing on the next

637
00:22:57,029 --> 00:22:54,799
day

638
00:22:59,190 --> 00:22:57,039
my job among other things is to get the

639
00:23:00,710 --> 00:22:59,200
network set up on the space shuttle and

640
00:23:02,390 --> 00:23:00,720
most of that i'll do on flight day one

641
00:23:05,029 --> 00:23:02,400
but i'll be completing that network

642
00:23:07,590 --> 00:23:05,039
setup on flight day two we will be

643
00:23:10,149 --> 00:23:07,600
checking out the emu's the space suits

644
00:23:12,470 --> 00:23:10,159
that al drew and tim copra will be using

645
00:23:13,909 --> 00:23:12,480
and that'll take a goodly bit of time

646
00:23:15,750 --> 00:23:13,919
something i'm really looking forward to

647
00:23:17,510 --> 00:23:15,760
i did that on space station several

648
00:23:20,230 --> 00:23:17,520
times and to do that on the shuttle now

649
00:23:21,669 --> 00:23:20,240
will be i think very interesting for me

650
00:23:23,909 --> 00:23:21,679
i will be checking out the rendezvous

651
00:23:26,789 --> 00:23:23,919
tools that we'll be using the next day

652
00:23:28,630 --> 00:23:26,799
and i'll be uh kind of driving the

653
00:23:30,149 --> 00:23:28,640
overall big picture for rendezvous on

654
00:23:31,830 --> 00:23:30,159
flight day three

655
00:23:33,190 --> 00:23:31,840
so flight day two will give us a chance

656
00:23:34,870 --> 00:23:33,200
to make sure everything is connected and

657
00:23:36,789 --> 00:23:34,880
works right and that's something i'm

658
00:23:39,510 --> 00:23:36,799
very interested in as well plus some

659
00:23:41,269 --> 00:23:39,520
science activities we'll have the

660
00:23:42,549 --> 00:23:41,279
vaccine experiment and the cells

661
00:23:44,470 --> 00:23:42,559
experiment on the mid-deck of the

662
00:23:45,990 --> 00:23:44,480
shuttle and i'll be checking after their

663
00:23:48,149 --> 00:23:46,000
health and making sure that they're

664
00:23:49,590 --> 00:23:48,159
functioning properly and just the

665
00:23:51,350 --> 00:23:49,600
day-to-day maintenance on the shuttle

666
00:23:55,110 --> 00:23:51,360
cleaning filters and

667
00:23:58,710 --> 00:23:57,190
and then the following day rendezvous

668
00:24:00,070 --> 00:23:58,720
and docking as you mentioned

669
00:24:01,350 --> 00:24:00,080
walk us through if you will what you'll

670
00:24:02,630 --> 00:24:01,360
be doing

671
00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:02,640
on that day

672
00:24:06,710 --> 00:24:04,880
well docking day as we call it d-day is

673
00:24:08,549 --> 00:24:06,720
a very big day for all of us it involves

674
00:24:09,830 --> 00:24:08,559
the entire crew all six of us will be

675
00:24:12,070 --> 00:24:09,840
involved in that

676
00:24:13,669 --> 00:24:12,080
steve lindsey and eric bowe as the

677
00:24:16,710 --> 00:24:13,679
commander and pilots will obviously be

678
00:24:18,549 --> 00:24:16,720
doing all the dynamic flight operations

679
00:24:20,870 --> 00:24:18,559
my job will be to follow the entire

680
00:24:23,110 --> 00:24:20,880
docking timeline along with those two

681
00:24:24,789 --> 00:24:23,120
gentlemen and make sure that all of our

682
00:24:26,710 --> 00:24:24,799
navigational sensors the things that

683
00:24:28,789 --> 00:24:26,720
allow us to come together to make our

684
00:24:30,870 --> 00:24:28,799
correction burns and eventually to dock

685
00:24:33,190 --> 00:24:30,880
with the station are all working in an

686
00:24:36,310 --> 00:24:33,200
integrated fashion we have a rendezvous

687
00:24:37,669 --> 00:24:36,320
radar we have a laser range finder which

688
00:24:39,590 --> 00:24:37,679
helps us out

689
00:24:41,669 --> 00:24:39,600
we've got the overall navigation

690
00:24:43,909 --> 00:24:41,679
information that goes to the shuttle all

691
00:24:46,630 --> 00:24:43,919
of those come together on a laptop based

692
00:24:48,630 --> 00:24:46,640
program we call rpop and i'll be as we

693
00:24:49,990 --> 00:24:48,640
call it the rpop driver making sure that

694
00:24:51,990 --> 00:24:50,000
all of those sensors are giving us a

695
00:24:53,269 --> 00:24:52,000
coherent picture which feeds

696
00:24:55,110 --> 00:24:53,279
all of our

697
00:24:56,230 --> 00:24:55,120
flight activities

698
00:24:57,909 --> 00:24:56,240
and

699
00:24:59,430 --> 00:24:57,919
i'm really looking forward to seeing all

700
00:25:01,590 --> 00:24:59,440
that work together we've been training

701
00:25:03,590 --> 00:25:01,600
very hard to make sure that

702
00:25:06,549 --> 00:25:03,600
if one of those navigational sensors

703
00:25:08,470 --> 00:25:06,559
drops out we can use the other ones to

704
00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:08,480
make our rendezvous work but

705
00:25:12,149 --> 00:25:10,480
overall it's again like conducting a

706
00:25:13,590 --> 00:25:12,159
little symphony of information and

707
00:25:15,029 --> 00:25:13,600
making sure that we get a good sound out

708
00:25:16,149 --> 00:25:15,039
of it and end up with a good docking at

709
00:25:18,230 --> 00:25:16,159
the end

710
00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:18,240
and and once you dock the work doesn't

711
00:25:22,310 --> 00:25:20,320
stop there you'll you'll then have to

712
00:25:24,070 --> 00:25:22,320
get right into getting that logistics

713
00:25:25,430 --> 00:25:24,080
carrier alc4

714
00:25:26,870 --> 00:25:25,440
out of the payload pay talk us through

715
00:25:28,870 --> 00:25:26,880
what's going to happen and and how

716
00:25:30,870 --> 00:25:28,880
you're going to accomplish that okay

717
00:25:32,870 --> 00:25:30,880
i'll do my best because again i'm not

718
00:25:34,549 --> 00:25:32,880
scheduled to do it and i don't

719
00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:34,559
i haven't trained on it but here goes

720
00:25:37,990 --> 00:25:36,320
okay

721
00:25:40,549 --> 00:25:38,000
well you're right we'll have to be very

722
00:25:42,950 --> 00:25:40,559
busy immediately after docking we'll be

723
00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:42,960
able to get a quick handshake with our

724
00:25:46,070 --> 00:25:44,640
crewmates on station we're really

725
00:25:48,070 --> 00:25:46,080
looking forward to seeing them we'll get

726
00:25:49,909 --> 00:25:48,080
a quick safety briefing and make sure

727
00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:49,919
that everybody knows how to

728
00:25:53,669 --> 00:25:51,760
be safe on that magnificent stack up

729
00:25:56,149 --> 00:25:53,679
there and then we'll go right to work

730
00:25:58,870 --> 00:25:56,159
the elc 4 does come out on that first

731
00:26:00,789 --> 00:25:58,880
doc day and it'll be a very interesting

732
00:26:03,029 --> 00:26:00,799
time because it requires coordination

733
00:26:05,110 --> 00:26:03,039
between two robotic arms which is always

734
00:26:07,590 --> 00:26:05,120
kind of exciting we'll be using the

735
00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:07,600
station arm to actually remove that

736
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:09,440
express logistics carrier from the

737
00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:11,279
shuttle payload bay and that's a pretty

738
00:26:14,310 --> 00:26:13,120
big piece of equipment by the way with

739
00:26:15,990 --> 00:26:14,320
the uh

740
00:26:18,230 --> 00:26:16,000
radiator on it without the radiator

741
00:26:20,789 --> 00:26:18,240
weighs about ten thousand pounds and uh

742
00:26:22,630 --> 00:26:20,799
so it's actually fairly massive

743
00:26:25,269 --> 00:26:22,640
once we pluck it out with the space

744
00:26:27,029 --> 00:26:25,279
station arm will then hand that off to

745
00:26:29,430 --> 00:26:27,039
space shuttle arm

746
00:26:32,070 --> 00:26:29,440
while that space station arm then can

747
00:26:34,149 --> 00:26:32,080
walk off from where it is attached

748
00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:34,159
originally which is on node 2.

749
00:26:39,029 --> 00:26:36,320
it will then attach itself to our mobile

750
00:26:41,190 --> 00:26:39,039
base servicer which is a an arm carrier

751
00:26:43,669 --> 00:26:41,200
if you will that goes along the truss

752
00:26:46,710 --> 00:26:43,679
and once it's established on that mobile

753
00:26:48,950 --> 00:26:46,720
base it will then take again the elc

754
00:26:51,029 --> 00:26:48,960
from the shuttle arm and then we'll be

755
00:26:52,470 --> 00:26:51,039
able to park it in its final parking

756
00:26:54,950 --> 00:26:52,480
place which is down on the starboard

757
00:26:55,830 --> 00:26:54,960
truss so it's a bit of choreography and

758
00:26:59,430 --> 00:26:55,840
it's a

759
00:27:01,830 --> 00:26:59,440
we are if we want to get something from

760
00:27:04,549 --> 00:27:01,840
point a to point b and point b is a long

761
00:27:06,549 --> 00:27:04,559
way away but we have to do it precisely

762
00:27:08,230 --> 00:27:06,559
and accurately and fairly quickly

763
00:27:10,310 --> 00:27:08,240
because all of these things can't stay

764
00:27:12,950 --> 00:27:10,320
out in the space weather for too long

765
00:27:15,430 --> 00:27:12,960
without being connected to power

766
00:27:20,149 --> 00:27:15,440
this is how we we are able to do it so

767
00:27:23,909 --> 00:27:21,830
much the same as you just did with the

768
00:27:25,350 --> 00:27:23,919
elc-4 if you would describe how you're

769
00:27:27,590 --> 00:27:25,360
going to get the pmm out of the payload

770
00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:27,600
band attached to the station and uh tell

771
00:27:32,389 --> 00:27:29,760
me your involvement and uh with that in

772
00:27:33,590 --> 00:27:32,399
any activation activities after that

773
00:27:35,590 --> 00:27:33,600
okay

774
00:27:37,669 --> 00:27:35,600
well the pmm will be a little simpler

775
00:27:40,549 --> 00:27:37,679
than the elc-4 because we're only using

776
00:27:41,590 --> 00:27:40,559
one arm to do it but it by its sheer

777
00:27:43,430 --> 00:27:41,600
size

778
00:27:45,350 --> 00:27:43,440
will be i think quite an amazing thing

779
00:27:48,149 --> 00:27:45,360
to see we have a lot of experience

780
00:27:49,590 --> 00:27:48,159
taking the mplms out of our shuttle

781
00:27:51,269 --> 00:27:49,600
payload bay and docking those to

782
00:27:53,350 --> 00:27:51,279
stations and obviously this is a one-way

783
00:27:55,350 --> 00:27:53,360
trip we're going to take it out and

784
00:27:56,950 --> 00:27:55,360
attach it to node one almost in the

785
00:27:58,149 --> 00:27:56,960
center of the stack and of course we'll

786
00:28:00,789 --> 00:27:58,159
leave it there

787
00:28:03,269 --> 00:28:00,799
tim kopra and i will be doing that task

788
00:28:04,310 --> 00:28:03,279
tim being the lead robotics officer for

789
00:28:06,789 --> 00:28:04,320
pmm

790
00:28:08,630 --> 00:28:06,799
and we will grab on to it we'll make

791
00:28:10,870 --> 00:28:08,640
sure that the shuttle guys undo the

792
00:28:13,510 --> 00:28:10,880
latches and unlock it so it's free

793
00:28:15,909 --> 00:28:13,520
floating and we'll take it out and back

794
00:28:17,590 --> 00:28:15,919
it off from the shuttle payload bay and

795
00:28:19,430 --> 00:28:17,600
then we will fly it

796
00:28:21,029 --> 00:28:19,440
quite a distance actually from the very

797
00:28:22,070 --> 00:28:21,039
front of the station to the middle of

798
00:28:24,630 --> 00:28:22,080
the stack

799
00:28:27,029 --> 00:28:24,640
and attach it to node 1. now a couple of

800
00:28:29,990 --> 00:28:27,039
differences are that when i was there

801
00:28:31,510 --> 00:28:30,000
last there was no cupola which is a big

802
00:28:34,389 --> 00:28:31,520
domed

803
00:28:36,470 --> 00:28:34,399
wonderfully windowed extension on node

804
00:28:38,549 --> 00:28:36,480
3. we actually have a robotics

805
00:28:40,070 --> 00:28:38,559
workstation there so aside from our

806
00:28:42,789 --> 00:28:40,080
camera views we're going to have this

807
00:28:44,470 --> 00:28:42,799
magnificent view of the pmm coming out

808
00:28:46,470 --> 00:28:44,480
of the shuttle payload bay and we're

809
00:28:48,549 --> 00:28:46,480
actually docking it almost right next to

810
00:28:50,389 --> 00:28:48,559
us on node one so we'll have that view

811
00:28:52,630 --> 00:28:50,399
and i think it's going to be wonderful

812
00:28:54,950 --> 00:28:52,640
and again it's a one-way trip

813
00:28:56,549 --> 00:28:54,960
when we put it there it's there

814
00:28:57,590 --> 00:28:56,559
we think probably for the station

815
00:28:59,510 --> 00:28:57,600
lifetime

816
00:29:01,350 --> 00:28:59,520
and once we get it there then we'll be

817
00:29:03,590 --> 00:29:01,360
able to do some of the outfitting we

818
00:29:05,350 --> 00:29:03,600
need so that bleak checks for instance

819
00:29:07,190 --> 00:29:05,360
are done we know that the ventilation

820
00:29:09,350 --> 00:29:07,200
circuit is good in there we've powered

821
00:29:11,669 --> 00:29:09,360
it and eventually we'll be able to crack

822
00:29:12,870 --> 00:29:11,679
the hatch and go inside so very much

823
00:29:14,710 --> 00:29:12,880
looking forward to getting that on

824
00:29:17,990 --> 00:29:14,720
station

825
00:29:21,269 --> 00:29:18,000
you'll undock

826
00:29:23,190 --> 00:29:21,279
and prepare for your trip back home

827
00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:23,200
it may be one of the last opportunities

828
00:29:26,630 --> 00:29:25,039
for anybody to see

829
00:29:28,950 --> 00:29:26,640
the station from the vantage point of

830
00:29:31,029 --> 00:29:28,960
the inside from inside of the shuttle

831
00:29:32,710 --> 00:29:31,039
as you sit here today trying to imagine

832
00:29:35,269 --> 00:29:32,720
what that's going to be like what what

833
00:29:36,789 --> 00:29:35,279
are your thoughts about that

834
00:29:39,350 --> 00:29:36,799
i think that

835
00:29:40,950 --> 00:29:39,360
the view of the space station

836
00:29:43,110 --> 00:29:40,960
from the shuttle

837
00:29:46,470 --> 00:29:43,120
from everything i've seen

838
00:29:48,230 --> 00:29:46,480
from returned crew members in the videos

839
00:29:51,110 --> 00:29:48,240
has to be one of the most breathtaking

840
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sites available today and

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that's probably one of the things i'm

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looking forward to most as we approach

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the station

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have made it bigger we will have been

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with our friends for about eight days or

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so we will work very hard and i think

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we'll hopefully be whooped but very

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satisfied with the work we did

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and i think all of that is going to add

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to that view as we pull away and fly

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around it

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i

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program have returned so much to us

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in operating knowledge and scientific

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knowledge and