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good afternoon i'm valerie neal a space

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history curator and we are broadcasting

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from the moving beyond earth gallery at

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the smithsonian's national air and space

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museum

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please join me in welcoming today

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well we are thrilled to have you here

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today and we look forward to having a

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conversation with you over the course of

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the next hour

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it's a special privilege always to have

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astronauts come visit us here in the

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museum

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and today we have two astronauts who

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have flown two shuttle missions each and

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have each spent almost six months on the

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international space station so i think

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we're going to be in for a wonderful

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program hearing both about shuttle

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flights and life aboard the space

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astronaut katie coleman is a local woman

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she went to high school here in fairfax

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virginia so we consider her kind of one

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of our own

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she flew twice on columbia in 1995 and

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and if i'm not mistaken your 20th

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anniversary as an astronaut is coming up

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next month

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1992 it's true all right so 20 years in

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the astronaut core already

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katie is a scientist she's a research

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chemist with a degree from mit

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uh a school that not many of us could

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get into probably

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and she has served on two science

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missions on the shuttle and she was both

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chief scientist on the international

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space station and also chief robotics

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officer now how cool is that to be in

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charge of robots

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mike fossum joined the astronaut corps

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just a few years later

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came in from the

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air force and through nasa came into a

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different route actually i should say

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astronaut coleman was also in the air

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force

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he has served as a flight

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test pilot for f-16s cf-16

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as a flight test engineer my test

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engineer so he came through the

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traditional route

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for the astronaut corps of being a test

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pilot and flight engineer

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he also has been engaged in science on

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the space station and his two missions

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were aboard discovery in 2006

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2009

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we will be receiving discovery into this

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museum in april so we're really thrilled

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to have an expert on discovery with us

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today

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i am going to turn the program over to

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you to talk and show your video and then

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we'll move into q and a after that you

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bet uh this is exciting valerie to be

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here the air space museum is my favorite

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museum in the world i just love this

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place i i can't count the number of

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times i've been here brought my family

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here to to wander through the exhibits

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in the halls and see uh you know as a

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you know younger a child an adult to see

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you know the history in here and in more

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recent years i see

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you know airplanes that i've touched

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back when they were at edwards or or

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doing their flight test or setting their

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records and

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so it's it's really exciting for me

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because history really is alive

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uh it's we're making more history all

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the time and this is a place for some of

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the just for me the most fascinating but

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you know i love this uh the

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airplanes and rockets like

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like every kid or everything like

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homework

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because i i i have you know they're like

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old friends and i think it's an

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important you know part of our you know

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nation's history our world's history to

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to see these things to see them in

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context to see them with your own eyes

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instead of just reading about them and

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really that's one of the things that

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drew me to want to come to the astronaut

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business was to experience it myself to

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see it with my own eyes to see out of

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the windows at the earth below not just

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looking at pictures and video

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and so you know that's that's you know

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exciting for me glad to be here well and

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for for me

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something that's a little bit different

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about the museum now than when i was

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growing up is that

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now you can come to the museum and you

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can see women living and working in

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space whereas that actually was not

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something when i was a little kid i

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could see

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and so that's a big difference and

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that's what makes this uh such a

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wonderful place i mean we're really glad

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that all of you are here today um and at

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the same time it's hard for us you know

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to touch everyone in the whole world and

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and so it's nice when there's a place

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like the air and space museum that

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brings what is amazing work alive to

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people today what mike and i are going

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to talk to to you about is basically a

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year on the international space station

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i launched in december just a couple

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days after my 50th birthday as a great

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birthday present

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big candle my husband said he was really

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pleased to arrange for me to

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have a little rocket ride for my

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birthday and so i launched in december i

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came home at the end of may and um mike

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was my backup and then he launched in

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the middle of june and came home just

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after thanksgiving so we represent

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literally a year on the iss

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and you're going to see a couple

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different patches and a couple different

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vehicles and i just want to kind of help

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you navigate before we start so

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we go on the space station we have six

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people that live there

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and we go up in groups of three

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so when i got there in my group of three

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with an italian guy and a russian guy in

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our little soyuz when we arrived there

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were already three people there we knew

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that it was not a surprise and and so um

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scott kelly and sasha kaleri alex

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kiripoch were up there and that's why i

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have this patch which is expedition 26.

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and so together we formed a crew of six

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which was expedition 26 but then a

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couple months into the mission it's

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their turn to go home

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and we're on the station and then ron

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and his two russian compatriots come up

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and we formed expedition 27

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okay and then while ron is

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while ron is up there mike comes up you

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you leave i leave yes they gave me a

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place she wasn't ready to come to my

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room you took my room on the space

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station i did

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expedition 28 which

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symbolized by this patch here for the

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the crew of six at that time

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september when ron came home we began

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and i wear that patch right here and i

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was the commander of expedition 29 as we

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uh kind of finished out the year so it's

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a you know right even now as we speak

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there's six people living on the space

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station doing that same kind of three

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other thing you're going to see in the

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video is is actually a lot of vehicles

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going back and forth mike and i each

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launched on the soyuz from kazakhstan

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excuse me in baikonur in the middle of

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while we were up there while i was up

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there i think we had three russian

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supply ships a japanese supply ship and

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a european supply ship and two space

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shuttles and then while mike was up

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coming and going and people coming and

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going and uh we just want to give you a

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little game plan before we start on the

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ride a year in about 14 minutes yes a

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year on the iss in 14 minutes so here we

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go okay let's roll it and we'll just

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where are we going to see this where is

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everybody uh it's going to be on that

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screen okay yes okay so yeah you may

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want to turn around here

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but don't despair because it takes a

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while to show the patches so you'll see

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and there's just a little music don't

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worry we're you're not going to hear

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stuff the whole time so it's mostly

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you're stuck with us talking yeah

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so the place that we stay before launch

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we have a tradition we sign our door we

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get blessed by the russian priest and we

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walk out and i'm actually begging these

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guys to take short steps and slow ones

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but they forget and we report to the

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russian commission

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load us up on the rocket

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we are

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leaving the planet

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big deal for people to leave the planet

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mike what was launch like for you i was

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standing about a mile away and watching

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the the katie's rocket just shred the

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night sky it was

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really close really amazing eight and a

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half minutes to get to space two days to

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rendezvous with the iss and then we are

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living in space and it's not about

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floating around it's about flying

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so it's just amazing to be in such a big

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giant place where there's there's

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experiments there's all sorts of

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equipment it's a it's a bigger place

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it's like eight train cars all put

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together and so it's a lot of room

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especially when these supply ships come

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up you just saw the japanese supply ship

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and then just now the european automated

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transfer vehicle and now the space

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shuttle with our last module for the

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space station so they're going to put

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that module on board before they come up

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they do sort of a pirouette under us and

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they take pictures of us and we take

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pictures of them it's kind of neat to

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see each other and at the same time it's

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to understand you know the health of

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each other's vehicles and there's the

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shuttle crew they're installing all the

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cables and all the power so that our new

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module is all plugged into the space

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station we actually pick it up out of

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the payload bay with the robotic arm and

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then stick it on the space station hook

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it up and then the shuttle crew helped

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and then their work done they they um

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and undocked and closed the hatch and

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we're left doing a lot of the

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experiments that they brought up one of

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those is robonaut and you'll see that

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mike got to spend some pretty neat time

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with robonaut while he was up there but

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now scott and his crew left and look at

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this this is not animation that is a

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real photograph a movie of the space

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and that was me playing the flute a

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little bit up there and now greeting our

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new crew so we're expedition 27

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ron and sasha and andre are coming on

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board we're so excited to share this

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amazing place with them

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we were actually up there during the

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japanese tsunami you actually see

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evidence of that from space and so we

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made those

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those origami white cranes for them and

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this is the six of us on the 50th

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anniversary of human space flight 50

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years after april 12 19

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2011

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people first left the planet yuri

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gagarin was the first human to leave the

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planet and there we are thinking it's

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normal i'm a family that thinks it's

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normal to live on a space station we

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actually launched from the same launch

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pad that yuri gagarin launched from 50

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years ago and it's making possible

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things like this the ams alpha magnetic

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spectrometer looks at dark energy dark

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matter and we had two italians on our

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flight when the shuttle came up one with

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me and one on the shuttle and so because

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of the two italians we were able to have

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a conference with the pope that was

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really a great privilege for all of us

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these are just some views of this

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amazing space station so we live on the

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inside there this is outside where the

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space walks are

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but pretty soon it's our time dima and

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paolo and i to climb in our soyuz undock

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and you'll see a soyuz out here out

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right out here on the the the mirror

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model that you all have out there right

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out there

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and so you can see that same thing

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and these pictures are really unusual

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and it's the first time we've undocked

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when a shuttle was present so paulo dima

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and i left in the middle of the night

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and took these pictures of the space

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station with the space shuttle attached

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and the only pictures you'll ever see of

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the shuttle attached to the station are

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the ones that paolo took when we were

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undocking and then landing just a few

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hours later in in kazakhstan

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and that's us coming in for our soft

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landing

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solid and you know the spacecraft is

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built for it our seats are built for it

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and it was really nice to be home

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although i would have stayed a little

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so now this is so we left ron on the

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station ron and his two compatriots and

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the shuttle's crew was still there and

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they just undocked there's the station

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and their view of the space station as

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they leave and then mike cruz mike

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fossum's crew is about to come aboard

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while katie was was going through the

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descent

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and and coming back to earth we were

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going through our final preparations

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uh and heading to the baikonur

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cosmodrome in kazakhstan to for our own

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launch and then our docking which you

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see here it's about a 50 hours from the

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time you launch until the time you get

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docked and hatches open it was great to

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come aboard and see the guys ron and i

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had a long long-standing

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joke about him having the uh coffee on

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for me and then he gave i traveled a

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million miles and he gave me a bag of

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instant coffee

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nobody actually goes for the food so

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yeah

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and immediately it was time to uh to

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jump in and get to work

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working on different systems on the

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station we are we're responsible for the

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maintaining the systems upgrading things

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fixing them and preparing for space

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shuttle atlantis to come up on sts-135

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the final space shuttle mission

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it was pretty amazing to see it come up

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below us we were also ready

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with uh high-powered cameras to take

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photographs of its heat shield to make

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sure it was all okay and it was so we

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greeted them on board a couple days

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later ron guerin and i are heading out

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the door to do the last space walk of

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the space shuttle era as we moved a

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broken pump module from the outside of

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the station to the cargo bay of the

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shuttle to bring it home

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and then we installed a a module there

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it's a

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a robotic refueling mission uh

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experiment from the space that the space

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shuttle brought up and is now installed

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on the outside of the station itself

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that was uh seven spacewalks total for

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me it's a very exhilarating

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uh and a little bit scary

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and then they ron and mike have the most

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spacewalk time together of any two

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people i'm understanding there they are

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with the folks on the shuttle crew to

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help them get out the door and the

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shuttle crew before they undock bear in

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mind this is the last flight uh this is

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the flight of atlantis and so it's the

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last space shuttle that ron is ringing

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them is saying space shuttle atlantis

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departing

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i i broke a little rule here and opened

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a cover on a window to get this picture

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of the space shuttle as it backed away i

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like to think the robot arm is saluting

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the station the shuttle's work finally

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done the major thing of its of its era

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was building the space station and we

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would not have the space station we have

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today without the incredible capability

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of the space shuttle program

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we say that you can't see any borders

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from space but this bright colored

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ribbon on this shot here is actually the

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indo

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the

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india-pakistan border and it is a lit

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border where there is a fence between

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those two countries in those areas and

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you know in some ways it's sad that we

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can see borders from space the world has

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changed a lot and in our view from you

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know living up on the space station it

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looks like one planet that all of us

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could live peacefully on and at the same

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time it's really i think amazing to have

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a platform that we can look down and

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understand with compassion that you know

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that life is hard in lots of different

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places and as a people of the earth we

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have some very serious problems to solve

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our job was not looking out the window

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and taking pictures but we sure enjoyed

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doing that when we had the opportunity

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you can see the familiar land forms of

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course cape cod they're reaching out see

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weather hurricane irene we saw three

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major hurricanes while we were up there

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and and actually saw the water running

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off from the east coast after the big

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one came up this way

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all the way up

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seeing the nile river in the nile delta

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with your own eyes lit up at night was

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was phenomenal

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after about three and a half months up

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there with ronnie andre and sasha it was

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time for them to head home

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and it was it was a great time we sure

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enjoyed so of course ryan and i had

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flown together on sts 124 back in 2008

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so we have lived and trained and flown

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together for five years it was uh kind

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of strange watching them as they as they

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backed away

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i love this video of going around the

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earth now we don't actually go this fast

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this is kind of time lapse photography

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but it was something that was pioneered

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by mike and ron where they actually

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figured out how to take pictures with

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our cameras you know one after the other

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to be able to put a video like this

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together and look at this this is aurora

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borealis astralis

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astralis the southern lights and

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we see these kind of things and and

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they're so exciting to see and you see

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and you're always frustrated by the

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limitations of cameras and for me one of

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the most exciting parts of the mission

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was when we figured out how to capture

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these views so we could bring them here

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and share them with you today

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look at that moonrise watch the

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reflection

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isn't that beautiful oh

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it was just stunning and you can see

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these on the internet uh there's a peter

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gabriel video that right now uses the

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these sequences there's uh cairo again

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in the nile in a different point of view

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during the daytime

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again it's faster than what we're used

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to seeing when we look out our windows

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but it shows you a little bit about what

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it feels like to be

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you know it looks bad but we're we're in

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seats that are actually molded to our

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backsides exactly and so um we actually

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that spreads out the force and it we

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land just fine because there was a a

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problem in the russian soyuz launch

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rocket

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on a cargo ship we were we just had

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three people up there well not counting

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robonaut he's still one on the left

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isn't he great

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so we just had a crew of three for a

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couple of months sergei volkov here and

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my japanese crewmate or our japanese

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crewmate satoshi furukawa that's how you

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take your weight in space

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here's how you run a harness and bungee

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cords to hold you to the treadmill

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taking a shower doesn't make much sense

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because the water can't find the drain

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so we use a little soapy water on a

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washcloth

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and you can wash your face without

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getting your shirt wet

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going to bed at night means climbing

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into your sleeping bag which is just

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tacked to the wall

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it doesn't need to be laying down does

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it it's all the same

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so working on systems uh on the station

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working on experiments i mean there are

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just some fascinating things that we get

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to do and i will say even eating is an

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experiment uh except eating onions like

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they just were i'm glad i was gone

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that's that's our window to the world we

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call it the cupola it's a little bubble

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of cluster of windows on the bottom of

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the station

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this video here shows what happens when

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we're burning the engine on the station

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to reboost it we're going at a constant

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speed when we let go the space station

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is accelerating away from us

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it's really cool

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here's satoshi he has a love for

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baseball and he's showing us his uh

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one-man baseball skills he can pitch the

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ball

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then he's got to fly faster than the

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ball to get to the to get to the plate

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we don't have enough for a whole team

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spat her up

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he swings he hits it's a pop fly

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can he field his own ball let's see it

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like katie likes to point out the after

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she left we didn't do anything but just

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mess around and play games it's not true

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they got amazing experiments done but uh

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you know

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you can't work every single minute of

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the day and it's a fascinating place to

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live and work finally in mid-november

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dan burbank anton and anatoly came up we

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just had a few days with them on the

550
00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:42,400
station to hand over uh everything we

551
00:19:47,590 --> 00:19:45,360
knew uh or do the best we could and then

552
00:19:50,789 --> 00:19:47,600
it's it's time to a hand over a change

553
00:19:52,630 --> 00:19:50,799
of command so dan burbank

554
00:19:54,789 --> 00:19:52,640
is uh now the commander of the space

555
00:19:56,630 --> 00:19:54,799
station expedition 30.

556
00:19:59,909 --> 00:19:56,640
it was time for us to uh pack up our

557
00:20:02,390 --> 00:19:59,919
very few belongings you could take just

558
00:20:05,270 --> 00:20:02,400
about a pound and a half or so of of

559
00:20:07,430 --> 00:20:05,280
personal stuff that you can take home

560
00:20:10,390 --> 00:20:07,440
and we

561
00:20:13,029 --> 00:20:10,400
unlock the soyuz and start backing away

562
00:20:15,270 --> 00:20:13,039
from the station it was neat to kind of

563
00:20:17,190 --> 00:20:15,280
catch a glimpse as we backed away that's

564
00:20:19,110 --> 00:20:17,200
us riding a home in a meteor we're

565
00:20:21,110 --> 00:20:19,120
really the small dot in the middle of

566
00:20:23,590 --> 00:20:21,120
the screen is our capsule the other two

567
00:20:26,149 --> 00:20:23,600
pieces are expendable pieces of the

568
00:20:28,710 --> 00:20:26,159
soyuz that are burning up

569
00:20:30,710 --> 00:20:28,720
we landed just before dawn our capsules

570
00:20:32,470 --> 00:20:30,720
in the middle of the picture there and

571
00:20:35,110 --> 00:20:32,480
they get us out and our first conclusion

572
00:20:36,549 --> 00:20:35,120
was gravity really stinks

573
00:20:38,710 --> 00:20:36,559
absolutely

574
00:20:40,310 --> 00:20:38,720
the the ship that's it that is the whole

575
00:20:42,149 --> 00:20:40,320
thing right there that we come home in

576
00:20:42,870 --> 00:20:42,159
and it's all charred we were watching

577
00:20:43,990 --> 00:20:42,880
the

578
00:20:47,190 --> 00:20:44,000
incredible

579
00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:47,200
plasma fall around it a little while

580
00:20:51,270 --> 00:20:48,799
later we have the traditional funny hat

581
00:20:52,870 --> 00:20:51,280
ceremony

582
00:20:54,390 --> 00:20:52,880
it's a press conference that we do after

583
00:20:56,149 --> 00:20:54,400
launch because we land in kazakhstan

584
00:20:58,149 --> 00:20:56,159
they have their own traditions and so

585
00:21:08,230 --> 00:20:58,159
that's it that's what we're here

586
00:21:13,830 --> 00:21:11,830
let me ask our audience who wants to go

587
00:21:15,510 --> 00:21:13,840
anybody out there wanting to go to the

588
00:21:17,350 --> 00:21:15,520
space station we have somebody that's

589
00:21:19,909 --> 00:21:17,360
already dressed yeah there we go okay

590
00:21:22,470 --> 00:21:19,919
good you are dressed it's true we have a

591
00:21:24,149 --> 00:21:22,480
young astronaut in the audience uh well

592
00:21:26,549 --> 00:21:24,159
we are going to start taking some

593
00:21:28,549 --> 00:21:26,559
questions in just a moment um

594
00:21:30,710 --> 00:21:28,559
i am going to

595
00:21:32,549 --> 00:21:30,720
take the prerogative of being on stage

596
00:21:35,350 --> 00:21:32,559
to ask the first question

597
00:21:38,789 --> 00:21:35,360
if you don't mind and i apologize to you

598
00:21:42,390 --> 00:21:38,799
i left out your most signal title which

599
00:21:43,830 --> 00:21:42,400
was commander of expedition 28 on the

600
00:21:45,590 --> 00:21:43,840
space station i was thinking of

601
00:21:48,630 --> 00:21:45,600
everything else and forgot to mention

602
00:21:49,990 --> 00:21:48,640
that so each of you in your long tenure

603
00:21:52,070 --> 00:21:50,000
and your different flights have done

604
00:21:54,710 --> 00:21:52,080
many different jobs i'm going to ask

605
00:21:56,230 --> 00:21:54,720
each of you about two of your jobs and

606
00:21:58,630 --> 00:21:56,240
for you would you talk to us a little

607
00:22:00,149 --> 00:21:58,640
bit more about space walking and then

608
00:22:04,470 --> 00:22:00,159
would you also tell us how much

609
00:22:07,029 --> 00:22:04,480
commanding does a commander do not much

610
00:22:09,669 --> 00:22:07,039
of space walking it's uh it's outrageous

611
00:22:11,110 --> 00:22:09,679
it's uh it's um

612
00:22:12,870 --> 00:22:11,120
we train for hundreds of hundreds of

613
00:22:14,549 --> 00:22:12,880
hours in the in a pool a neutral

614
00:22:16,789 --> 00:22:14,559
buoyancy laboratory where they wait us

615
00:22:18,310 --> 00:22:16,799
out so we don't sink or float and you'll

616
00:22:20,630 --> 00:22:18,320
learn that choreography because

617
00:22:22,630 --> 00:22:20,640
maintaining a safety tether attached to

618
00:22:24,390 --> 00:22:22,640
the structures is very important it's

619
00:22:29,350 --> 00:22:24,400
kind of like a leash

620
00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:29,360
uh as you know a safety line and

621
00:22:34,950 --> 00:22:31,360
and and we practiced this and the first

622
00:22:39,029 --> 00:22:34,960
time i i kind of slid out of the airlock

623
00:22:41,110 --> 00:22:39,039
where there's two things one is i i

624
00:22:42,950 --> 00:22:41,120
it was a shock to see the space station

625
00:22:45,270 --> 00:22:42,960
suspended in

626
00:22:46,870 --> 00:22:45,280
the sky with nothing underneath it

627
00:22:48,470 --> 00:22:46,880
because i've all this time in the pool

628
00:22:50,630 --> 00:22:48,480
there's all this iron structure and

629
00:22:52,630 --> 00:22:50,640
there's a concrete floor down there and

630
00:22:54,310 --> 00:22:52,640
there's scuba divers

631
00:22:57,029 --> 00:22:54,320
and none of this stuff of course is in

632
00:22:59,750 --> 00:22:57,039
space and it's just hanging there and

633
00:23:01,430 --> 00:22:59,760
uh i mean just shiny and you know

634
00:23:02,870 --> 00:23:01,440
amazing and then you look down and you

635
00:23:05,110 --> 00:23:02,880
see this very disturbing blue and white

636
00:23:06,549 --> 00:23:05,120
ball going by at five miles a second

637
00:23:08,710 --> 00:23:06,559
it's like oh that's that's a mistake

638
00:23:10,470 --> 00:23:08,720
don't look down

639
00:23:12,149 --> 00:23:10,480
and the space station is the size of a

640
00:23:13,669 --> 00:23:12,159
football field right the station is the

641
00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:13,679
size of a football field and so you

642
00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:15,600
learn how to move around out there and

643
00:23:19,430 --> 00:23:17,440
not think about where you are you just

644
00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:19,440
have to get to work

645
00:23:23,990 --> 00:23:21,200
and and con let the training kind of

646
00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:24,000
kick in um it's i'm a little nervous

647
00:23:27,350 --> 00:23:26,000
outside and i even after seven space

648
00:23:30,630 --> 00:23:27,360
walks about

649
00:23:32,390 --> 00:23:30,640
48 hours outside um because and i think

650
00:23:33,990 --> 00:23:32,400
anybody that's not a little bit nervous

651
00:23:36,310 --> 00:23:34,000
doesn't belong there

652
00:23:38,310 --> 00:23:36,320
and you stay outside for the equivalent

653
00:23:39,270 --> 00:23:38,320
of a whole work day or a whole school

654
00:23:41,669 --> 00:23:39,280
day

655
00:23:43,750 --> 00:23:41,679
but uh do you get to have lunch

656
00:23:46,470 --> 00:23:43,760
no you get a good snack before you head

657
00:23:48,230 --> 00:23:46,480
out the door uh we we uh it's we're in

658
00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:48,240
the suit it's pretty much a minimum of

659
00:23:53,350 --> 00:23:50,640
six and a half hours and mine have gone

660
00:23:54,870 --> 00:23:53,360
as long as seven and a half um and and

661
00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:54,880
so you get a good snack before you go

662
00:23:58,310 --> 00:23:56,320
out and you have a drink

663
00:24:00,950 --> 00:23:58,320
water bottle it's a bag that's kind of

664
00:24:01,909 --> 00:24:00,960
inside the suit and a little bite valve

665
00:24:03,990 --> 00:24:01,919
here

666
00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:04,000
to uh to you know get a little water but

667
00:24:07,430 --> 00:24:05,440
it's not as much as you wish you had

668
00:24:09,190 --> 00:24:07,440
that's for sure so all you youngsters

669
00:24:11,269 --> 00:24:09,200
out there imagine you know going to

670
00:24:14,310 --> 00:24:11,279
school in the morning

671
00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:14,320
work work working all day no lunch break

672
00:24:18,390 --> 00:24:15,840
no recess

673
00:24:20,149 --> 00:24:18,400
no going down the hall to the restroom

674
00:24:23,190 --> 00:24:20,159
you have to just do your work all day

675
00:24:25,350 --> 00:24:23,200
long until eight hours are over then you

676
00:24:26,789 --> 00:24:25,360
get to come in

677
00:24:28,950 --> 00:24:26,799
we should talk about that part because

678
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:28,960
everybody thinks about it right

679
00:24:32,149 --> 00:24:30,480
and so you know just to be really clear

680
00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:32,159
you know up on the space station and in

681
00:24:36,789 --> 00:24:34,400
the soyuz and we have we have bathroom

682
00:24:37,590 --> 00:24:36,799
and bathrooms too we're a two-bathroom

683
00:24:39,350 --> 00:24:37,600
house

684
00:24:41,269 --> 00:24:39,360
um and so there you know there's there's

685
00:24:42,710 --> 00:24:41,279
one at either end of the space station

686
00:24:43,909 --> 00:24:42,720
and you know and that works just fine

687
00:24:45,909 --> 00:24:43,919
but when you're in your own little

688
00:24:48,149 --> 00:24:45,919
spaceship in the space suit then there

689
00:24:50,149 --> 00:24:48,159
isn't a bathroom there and so you know

690
00:24:52,230 --> 00:24:50,159
we just go back to the basics it's the

691
00:24:54,549 --> 00:24:52,240
most efficient way to do things and if

692
00:24:56,230 --> 00:24:54,559
you need to go you know you can do that

693
00:24:58,390 --> 00:24:56,240
and not get everything all messy because

694
00:25:00,310 --> 00:24:58,400
we go prepared and we wear diapers

695
00:25:02,630 --> 00:25:00,320
that's true

696
00:25:04,470 --> 00:25:02,640
the glamour of space flight

697
00:25:06,470 --> 00:25:04,480
my son likes to tell his friends no they

698
00:25:09,269 --> 00:25:06,480
have a special name um

699
00:25:10,390 --> 00:25:09,279
maximum maximum absorbency got garment

700
00:25:12,230 --> 00:25:10,400
but

701
00:25:13,750 --> 00:25:12,240
i had to call you know this was before i

702
00:25:15,669 --> 00:25:13,760
had kids and i had to call my sister and

703
00:25:17,909 --> 00:25:15,679
go okay so the things they have they go

704
00:25:20,149 --> 00:25:17,919
in the front or how does that go kerry

705
00:25:23,990 --> 00:25:22,149
okay how about commanding when you're a

706
00:25:26,390 --> 00:25:24,000
commander how much bossing around do you

707
00:25:27,269 --> 00:25:26,400
get to do i was very fortunate that the

708
00:25:28,549 --> 00:25:27,279
crew

709
00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:28,559
it's it's it's really more of a

710
00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:30,080
collaborative effort somebody needs to

711
00:25:34,549 --> 00:25:32,080
be the spokesperson and that's really

712
00:25:36,950 --> 00:25:34,559
all that boils down to um you know it

713
00:25:39,029 --> 00:25:36,960
for for me it was uh we we had some

714
00:25:40,470 --> 00:25:39,039
challenges uh we were a three-person

715
00:25:41,269 --> 00:25:40,480
crew for a while and that was easy but

716
00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:41,279
we had

717
00:25:46,390 --> 00:25:44,000
the the crew that was intended really to

718
00:25:48,310 --> 00:25:46,400
join us right after ron left was not

719
00:25:50,630 --> 00:25:48,320
able to they were delayed by a couple of

720
00:25:52,710 --> 00:25:50,640
months and so we had to figure out how

721
00:25:56,710 --> 00:25:52,720
to get ready to hand them the keys to

722
00:25:59,029 --> 00:25:56,720
the to the shop the house the garage

723
00:26:01,029 --> 00:25:59,039
in a couple of just four days

724
00:26:02,549 --> 00:26:01,039
and uh that kind of handover normally

725
00:26:04,710 --> 00:26:02,559
takes weeks

726
00:26:06,630 --> 00:26:04,720
uh or months really we like to have a

727
00:26:08,630 --> 00:26:06,640
cup you know a couple of months to help

728
00:26:10,549 --> 00:26:08,640
the new guys learn where everything's

729
00:26:13,269 --> 00:26:10,559
located it's kind of like having right

730
00:26:15,909 --> 00:26:13,279
now we have the 30th crew serving on the

731
00:26:17,430 --> 00:26:15,919
space station really the 31st too with

732
00:26:20,470 --> 00:26:17,440
uh kononenko's crew that's up there with

733
00:26:22,310 --> 00:26:20,480
dan and and this is like uh like

734
00:26:24,470 --> 00:26:22,320
somebody else literally moving into your

735
00:26:26,390 --> 00:26:24,480
house and then after six months they

736
00:26:28,710 --> 00:26:26,400
hand it over the house and the shop and

737
00:26:31,669 --> 00:26:28,720
the garage to the next person

738
00:26:33,909 --> 00:26:31,679
who manages it for the their time and so

739
00:26:35,590 --> 00:26:33,919
it evolves over time there's a lot to do

740
00:26:36,789 --> 00:26:35,600
so our challenge was more trying to

741
00:26:38,950 --> 00:26:36,799
figure out how to prepare training

742
00:26:40,149 --> 00:26:38,960
videos and get them trained on the

743
00:26:42,230 --> 00:26:40,159
ground and working with them on the

744
00:26:44,149 --> 00:26:42,240
ground before they got there and i've

745
00:26:46,230 --> 00:26:44,159
actually been continuing to support them

746
00:26:48,310 --> 00:26:46,240
almost every week i've gone into mission

747
00:26:50,830 --> 00:26:48,320
control to talk to them and answer their

748
00:26:52,710 --> 00:26:50,840
questions about where i hid the

749
00:26:53,990 --> 00:26:52,720
camera cell phone number they do have my

750
00:26:54,870 --> 00:26:54,000
cell phone number

751
00:26:57,590 --> 00:26:54,880
yeah

752
00:26:59,750 --> 00:26:57,600
okay now katie uh you are obviously a

753
00:27:02,070 --> 00:26:59,760
trained scientist with a specialty in

754
00:27:04,470 --> 00:27:02,080
chemistry but on the space station you

755
00:27:06,630 --> 00:27:04,480
end up doing experiments for all

756
00:27:09,350 --> 00:27:06,640
different kinds of people uh different

757
00:27:11,269 --> 00:27:09,360
kinds of experiments so can you talk to

758
00:27:13,669 --> 00:27:11,279
us a little bit about being a scientist

759
00:27:15,909 --> 00:27:13,679
in space and what's different and then

760
00:27:18,230 --> 00:27:15,919
your other specialty is controlling the

761
00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:18,240
robotic arm that the astronauts are

762
00:27:21,909 --> 00:27:20,480
using outside so

763
00:27:23,430 --> 00:27:21,919
just shed a little light on there you

764
00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:23,440
know i'll talk about both those things

765
00:27:27,430 --> 00:27:25,120
but i think when you're thinking about

766
00:27:29,590 --> 00:27:27,440
maybe being an astronaut the thing to

767
00:27:32,310 --> 00:27:29,600
realize is that all of us are something

768
00:27:35,110 --> 00:27:32,320
else first i happen to be a chemist mike

769
00:27:37,029 --> 00:27:35,120
happens to be an air force uh pilot and

770
00:27:39,830 --> 00:27:37,039
a navigator and all those things

771
00:27:41,750 --> 00:27:39,840
engineer and uh um

772
00:27:43,430 --> 00:27:41,760
and so you know that's the job we come

773
00:27:44,870 --> 00:27:43,440
in with but then once we join the

774
00:27:47,029 --> 00:27:44,880
astronaut corps we're actually all

775
00:27:48,870 --> 00:27:47,039
trained to do almost all the things and

776
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:48,880
so mike could just as easily be talking

777
00:27:52,870 --> 00:27:50,640
about either robotics or and i could be

778
00:27:54,549 --> 00:27:52,880
talking about spacewalking um for the

779
00:27:56,070 --> 00:27:54,559
science experiments

780
00:27:57,990 --> 00:27:56,080
and i started to joke around that even

781
00:27:59,430 --> 00:27:58,000
eating is a science experiment because

782
00:28:01,909 --> 00:27:59,440
it's really interesting how things

783
00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:01,919
behave up there and that's why we go i

784
00:28:05,590 --> 00:28:03,600
mean if you have like mike's bag of

785
00:28:06,789 --> 00:28:05,600
instant coffee that he talked about well

786
00:28:08,310 --> 00:28:06,799
it's just like a juice bag that you

787
00:28:10,310 --> 00:28:08,320
might have down here but you poke a

788
00:28:12,470 --> 00:28:10,320
straw into it and our straws have

789
00:28:14,470 --> 00:28:12,480
special little fold-over clips so that

790
00:28:16,789 --> 00:28:14,480
stuff doesn't just keep coming out of

791
00:28:18,389 --> 00:28:16,799
the bag right and so if he spilled his

792
00:28:19,830 --> 00:28:18,399
coffee so to speak it would be that he

793
00:28:22,310 --> 00:28:19,840
squeezed it and stuff came out of the

794
00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:22,320
straw and it would make a sphere of

795
00:28:25,750 --> 00:28:24,480
coffee and down here on the ground that

796
00:28:27,430 --> 00:28:25,760
would be just like a puddle on the

797
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:27,440
ground because the force of gravity is

798
00:28:32,470 --> 00:28:30,720
overwhelming and up there where without

799
00:28:34,950 --> 00:28:32,480
gravity or without much gravity we can

800
00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:34,960
find out what do liquids really really

801
00:28:38,149 --> 00:28:36,159
want to do

802
00:28:39,750 --> 00:28:38,159
well the reason we want to know that is

803
00:28:42,470 --> 00:28:39,760
that every single thing that happens

804
00:28:44,630 --> 00:28:42,480
down here that involves flow through a

805
00:28:47,029 --> 00:28:44,640
pipe okay and that means the way the

806
00:28:48,630 --> 00:28:47,039
sewer system works wait the way the food

807
00:28:50,070 --> 00:28:48,640
factories work every food that is made

808
00:28:52,149 --> 00:28:50,080
that involves liquids coming together

809
00:28:54,389 --> 00:28:52,159
and being added in and mixed around and

810
00:28:56,870 --> 00:28:54,399
shoved down a pipe making something like

811
00:28:58,710 --> 00:28:56,880
your skis and skateboards and fabrics

812
00:29:01,190 --> 00:28:58,720
and everything probably that we could

813
00:29:03,510 --> 00:29:01,200
even look at in this room was made using

814
00:29:05,830 --> 00:29:03,520
flow through some kind of a pipe so

815
00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:05,840
understanding how that really works the

816
00:29:11,110 --> 00:29:07,760
tiny forces turn out to make a really

817
00:29:12,630 --> 00:29:11,120
big difference flames flames yep and so

818
00:29:14,470 --> 00:29:12,640
combustion

819
00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:14,480
um that's one of my favorite examples

820
00:29:19,110 --> 00:29:17,600
too is uh how things burn things burn a

821
00:29:20,470 --> 00:29:19,120
little bit differently up there you know

822
00:29:22,470 --> 00:29:20,480
we don't have a candle flame that looks

823
00:29:23,909 --> 00:29:22,480
like that nice little candle flame we

824
00:29:26,549 --> 00:29:23,919
think about here on the earth because

825
00:29:28,870 --> 00:29:26,559
the lighter gases aren't going to be any

826
00:29:31,590 --> 00:29:28,880
different than the heavier gases and so

827
00:29:33,750 --> 00:29:31,600
it's not going to be having those things

828
00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:33,760
rise the new fuel rushing in down here

829
00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:34,960
on the earth it's hard to study

830
00:29:38,710 --> 00:29:37,360
combustion it's hard to study pollution

831
00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:38,720
because those things are happening all

832
00:29:43,590 --> 00:29:41,039
the time really fast but up in space

833
00:29:45,590 --> 00:29:43,600
because of the weightless environment

834
00:29:47,750 --> 00:29:45,600
those things happen really slowly and we

835
00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:47,760
can measure them as scientists so we can

836
00:29:51,269 --> 00:29:49,840
understand how things burn to make more

837
00:29:52,870 --> 00:29:51,279
fuel efficient

838
00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:52,880
kinds of you know

839
00:29:58,789 --> 00:29:55,520
energy energy use in a more fuel

840
00:30:00,630 --> 00:29:58,799
efficient kind of way um and we can uh

841
00:30:03,590 --> 00:30:00,640
i don't know the the possibilities are

842
00:30:05,669 --> 00:30:03,600
really endless and so science is really

843
00:30:07,590 --> 00:30:05,679
fun up there it's fun down here too but

844
00:30:09,269 --> 00:30:07,600
i'll tell you it's really fun up there

845
00:30:11,430 --> 00:30:09,279
and i can go on and on we have a i mean

846
00:30:13,590 --> 00:30:11,440
we do hundreds of experiments uh up

847
00:30:15,590 --> 00:30:13,600
there and we do them every single day

848
00:30:17,510 --> 00:30:15,600
and we also love robotics i think all of

849
00:30:18,470 --> 00:30:17,520
us love to like actually make something

850
00:30:20,710 --> 00:30:18,480
happen

851
00:30:23,830 --> 00:30:20,720
and so we're using controls and then

852
00:30:26,230 --> 00:30:23,840
outside the robotic arm is moving around

853
00:30:27,269 --> 00:30:26,240
and in palos in my case we actually got

854
00:30:30,149 --> 00:30:27,279
to catch

855
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:30,159
a supply ship so this is a supply ship

856
00:30:35,110 --> 00:30:32,640
from japan it comes it launches on a

857
00:30:37,750 --> 00:30:35,120
rocket comes up to the space station

858
00:30:39,510 --> 00:30:37,760
flies in formation with us just about

859
00:30:41,430 --> 00:30:39,520
like from here into

860
00:30:43,350 --> 00:30:41,440
where you guys are away and then with

861
00:30:45,430 --> 00:30:43,360
the robotic arm i'm on the controls and

862
00:30:47,990 --> 00:30:45,440
paulo is calling distances for me i'm

863
00:30:49,750 --> 00:30:48,000
reaching out to then grab that

864
00:30:51,669 --> 00:30:49,760
and then we actually swing it around and

865
00:30:53,750 --> 00:30:51,679
stick it onto the space station open up

866
00:30:55,909 --> 00:30:53,760
the hatches and find our care packages

867
00:30:58,389 --> 00:30:55,919
from our families so you know that's

868
00:31:00,149 --> 00:30:58,399
robotics you know at work and and it

869
00:31:02,310 --> 00:31:00,159
translates down here on the ground in

870
00:31:04,789 --> 00:31:02,320
that there are new surgeries that can be

871
00:31:06,870 --> 00:31:04,799
done robotically because of what we've

872
00:31:09,350 --> 00:31:06,880
learned about how robots work that's

873
00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:09,360
part of the purpose of robonaut up there

874
00:31:15,430 --> 00:31:12,799
is to understand how how robots can work

875
00:31:17,590 --> 00:31:15,440
with people and in you know in some of

876
00:31:19,269 --> 00:31:17,600
the uses of robotics here on the ground

877
00:31:20,630 --> 00:31:19,279
so that's a long lecture about cool

878
00:31:23,110 --> 00:31:20,640
stuff i think

879
00:31:24,710 --> 00:31:23,120
very cool stuff very cool stuff well i

880
00:31:26,549 --> 00:31:24,720
think we probably have people in the

881
00:31:28,230 --> 00:31:26,559
audience who have questions of their own

882
00:31:30,470 --> 00:31:28,240
they would like to

883
00:31:31,909 --> 00:31:30,480
ask and we would ask that

884
00:31:33,750 --> 00:31:31,919
when you have the microphone if you

885
00:31:34,870 --> 00:31:33,760
would just say your first name and where

886
00:31:36,870 --> 00:31:34,880
you're from

887
00:31:40,230 --> 00:31:36,880
because we like to know who comes to the

888
00:31:43,990 --> 00:31:41,430
yeah we've got to have our first one

889
00:31:45,190 --> 00:31:44,000
right here miss nikolai and um

890
00:31:50,789 --> 00:31:45,200
i came

891
00:31:52,389 --> 00:31:50,799
want to be the first astronaut to go

892
00:31:56,710 --> 00:31:52,399
into space and i

893
00:31:58,470 --> 00:31:56,720
can speak read and write russian

894
00:32:01,669 --> 00:31:58,480
and you're the last part

895
00:32:03,509 --> 00:32:01,679
his name is nikolai from atlanta georgia

896
00:32:05,909 --> 00:32:03,519
you'd want to be an astronaut and you're

897
00:32:07,830 --> 00:32:05,919
dressed for the part already and what

898
00:32:11,909 --> 00:32:07,840
was the last part

899
00:32:11,919 --> 00:32:15,350
um

900
00:32:19,830 --> 00:32:17,590
i want to be the first astronaut kid to

901
00:32:21,750 --> 00:32:19,840
go into space

902
00:32:23,190 --> 00:32:21,760
so nikolai what was your favorite what

903
00:32:26,470 --> 00:32:23,200
would your favorite part of being in

904
00:32:30,149 --> 00:32:27,669
i want to

905
00:32:32,070 --> 00:32:30,159
go on other planets that people haven't

906
00:32:33,830 --> 00:32:32,080
been on yet

907
00:32:36,070 --> 00:32:33,840
that that would be a great thing and you

908
00:32:37,669 --> 00:32:36,080
know we're going to do this it takes a

909
00:32:40,070 --> 00:32:37,679
little more time than we would like but

910
00:32:43,750 --> 00:32:40,080
nikolai is the right age

911
00:32:48,389 --> 00:32:46,710
and so am i to be the ones who are going

912
00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:48,399
you know to leave even low earth orbit

913
00:32:52,789 --> 00:32:49,840
right around our planet to go to other

914
00:32:54,870 --> 00:32:52,799
planets like mars you are the right age

915
00:32:57,110 --> 00:32:54,880
but here's your responsibility and it's

916
00:32:59,029 --> 00:32:57,120
why mike and i are here today is because

917
00:33:02,310 --> 00:32:59,039
you need to be ready

918
00:33:04,310 --> 00:33:02,320
so nikolai in school do you do reading

919
00:33:05,669 --> 00:33:04,320
yes writing

920
00:33:07,430 --> 00:33:05,679
arithmetic

921
00:33:09,590 --> 00:33:07,440
i don't know what that is like counting

922
00:33:11,669 --> 00:33:09,600
do you do counting yup so you are

923
00:33:13,190 --> 00:33:11,679
already on your way to do some of the

924
00:33:15,110 --> 00:33:13,200
things you need to be ready you're an

925
00:33:17,990 --> 00:33:15,120
astronaut training it's true it's what

926
00:33:19,350 --> 00:33:18,000
we do all the time i do lots of science

927
00:33:21,430 --> 00:33:19,360
and math

928
00:33:23,110 --> 00:33:21,440
okay that is good do you clean up your

929
00:33:25,750 --> 00:33:23,120
messes

930
00:33:27,830 --> 00:33:25,760
space

931
00:33:30,230 --> 00:33:27,840
it's true and so all of you that are

932
00:33:32,149 --> 00:33:30,240
nikolai's age a little older a little

933
00:33:33,590 --> 00:33:32,159
older than that you know

934
00:33:35,590 --> 00:33:33,600
we've got a lot of really exciting

935
00:33:37,190 --> 00:33:35,600
things to do and actually big challenges

936
00:33:39,909 --> 00:33:37,200
on our planet as well and the way to be

937
00:33:42,470 --> 00:33:39,919
ready for those is to be in school to be

938
00:33:44,470 --> 00:33:42,480
practicing to be learning your math and

939
00:33:46,630 --> 00:33:44,480
your science but your reading and your

940
00:33:48,389 --> 00:33:46,640
writing and and don't forget all those

941
00:33:50,630 --> 00:33:48,399
other things too like you know being in

942
00:33:52,149 --> 00:33:50,640
gym class and art and all those things

943
00:33:54,230 --> 00:33:52,159
but all that learning that you do in

944
00:33:56,950 --> 00:33:54,240
school it's part of being ready and i

945
00:33:58,549 --> 00:33:56,960
think there's some fun things to do

946
00:34:00,230 --> 00:33:58,559
thanks nicholas thanks nikolai thank you

947
00:34:05,029 --> 00:34:00,240
nikolai

948
00:34:10,389 --> 00:34:08,149
i'm jim ryan from kensington maryland

949
00:34:12,950 --> 00:34:10,399
um do you have any idea when americans

950
00:34:13,909 --> 00:34:12,960
will go back into space on an american

951
00:34:16,629 --> 00:34:13,919
vehicle

952
00:34:19,750 --> 00:34:16,639
and what it will be

953
00:34:22,230 --> 00:34:19,760
the we we have ideas there's a lot of uh

954
00:34:24,550 --> 00:34:22,240
there's uh there is uncertainty about

955
00:34:26,629 --> 00:34:24,560
that right now with the retirement of

956
00:34:29,109 --> 00:34:26,639
the space shuttle program

957
00:34:31,589 --> 00:34:29,119
uh you know we we do not have a huma an

958
00:34:33,589 --> 00:34:31,599
american human launch capability uh

959
00:34:34,389 --> 00:34:33,599
katie and i both launched on a russian

960
00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:34,399
rocket

961
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:35,919
which is almost

962
00:34:39,349 --> 00:34:37,919
it was harder for me to believe was

963
00:34:41,430 --> 00:34:39,359
happening than the fact that i was

964
00:34:42,869 --> 00:34:41,440
flying into space because i imagined

965
00:34:44,869 --> 00:34:42,879
growing up that we'd all be flying in

966
00:34:45,990 --> 00:34:44,879
space by now but to fly on a russian

967
00:34:47,349 --> 00:34:46,000
rocket was

968
00:34:51,909 --> 00:34:47,359
beyond

969
00:34:54,550 --> 00:34:51,919
it there are a number of companies that

970
00:34:57,510 --> 00:34:54,560
are working first to get cargo

971
00:34:59,750 --> 00:34:57,520
capabilities up to the space station

972
00:35:01,349 --> 00:34:59,760
to augment the the capabilities we have

973
00:35:02,950 --> 00:35:01,359
and there are there's you know human

974
00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:02,960
derivatives of those

975
00:35:07,829 --> 00:35:05,680
though there there's a lot of work in a

976
00:35:09,589 --> 00:35:07,839
handful of private companies

977
00:35:11,670 --> 00:35:09,599
that are working on those right now it's

978
00:35:13,430 --> 00:35:11,680
kind of a race i i think we're going to

979
00:35:15,510 --> 00:35:13,440
see the next human launch somewhere

980
00:35:17,430 --> 00:35:15,520
around five or six years from now i'm

981
00:35:19,910 --> 00:35:17,440
kind of optimistic that they're they're

982
00:35:21,910 --> 00:35:19,920
gonna push through and and come up with

983
00:35:23,510 --> 00:35:21,920
the first capability the the reason

984
00:35:26,150 --> 00:35:23,520
these companies most of them are

985
00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:26,160
involved with with this getting uh

986
00:35:30,310 --> 00:35:28,320
getting astronauts american astronauts

987
00:35:32,710 --> 00:35:30,320
up to the space station with this rocket

988
00:35:34,150 --> 00:35:32,720
is they want to develop this technology

989
00:35:35,750 --> 00:35:34,160
and they want to

990
00:35:37,750 --> 00:35:35,760
they want to build more of them and fly

991
00:35:40,710 --> 00:35:37,760
more of them than nasa needs so they

992
00:35:42,310 --> 00:35:40,720
want to sell you a ticket and so they

993
00:35:44,390 --> 00:35:42,320
are motivated because they think that

994
00:35:46,470 --> 00:35:44,400
they can get this cheap enough

995
00:35:47,910 --> 00:35:46,480
that that not maybe not all of us but

996
00:35:50,069 --> 00:35:47,920
some of us can

997
00:35:51,589 --> 00:35:50,079
can can buy you know a ride to space

998
00:35:53,430 --> 00:35:51,599
like that i think in the meantime i

999
00:35:55,589 --> 00:35:53,440
think to keep the thing to keep in mind

1000
00:35:58,230 --> 00:35:55,599
is we spent years building our space

1001
00:36:01,030 --> 00:35:58,240
station yeah we meaning 16 different

1002
00:36:03,510 --> 00:36:01,040
countries the space station is up there

1003
00:36:06,550 --> 00:36:03,520
right now there are almost always six

1004
00:36:08,470 --> 00:36:06,560
people on board and we used to spend a

1005
00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:08,480
lot of time building it but now we're

1006
00:36:12,710 --> 00:36:10,720
done building and we are working and

1007
00:36:14,470 --> 00:36:12,720
doing really amazing and interesting

1008
00:36:16,470 --> 00:36:14,480
science and engineering projects up

1009
00:36:18,630 --> 00:36:16,480
there so the space station is up there

1010
00:36:20,870 --> 00:36:18,640
we have a way to space it is with our

1011
00:36:22,950 --> 00:36:20,880
russian partners mike and i are here to

1012
00:36:24,790 --> 00:36:22,960
attest to the fact that it works and you

1013
00:36:27,190 --> 00:36:24,800
can go back and see your family when you

1014
00:36:28,790 --> 00:36:27,200
get done and so you know and that's the

1015
00:36:30,230 --> 00:36:28,800
place that space station is the place

1016
00:36:32,310 --> 00:36:30,240
that we learn some of the things we need

1017
00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:32,320
to know before we go to mars which is

1018
00:36:36,390 --> 00:36:35,119
how to recycle air and water how to take

1019
00:36:37,829 --> 00:36:36,400
care of people and make sure when they

1020
00:36:39,190 --> 00:36:37,839
land on mars they're actually not like

1021
00:36:40,870 --> 00:36:39,200
you know rubber chickens and can't do

1022
00:36:43,349 --> 00:36:40,880
anything we're learning all those

1023
00:36:45,349 --> 00:36:43,359
lessons and so we um you know we

1024
00:36:47,030 --> 00:36:45,359
impatiently we are waiting impatiently

1025
00:36:49,430 --> 00:36:47,040
for that american capability to go back

1026
00:36:50,230 --> 00:36:49,440
to space but in the meantime the program

1027
00:36:51,750 --> 00:36:50,240
is

1028
00:36:54,550 --> 00:36:51,760
alive and well

1029
00:36:56,870 --> 00:36:54,560
and there is always at least one u.s

1030
00:36:58,870 --> 00:36:56,880
citizen on the space station is that

1031
00:37:00,550 --> 00:36:58,880
right yep

1032
00:37:01,829 --> 00:37:00,560
do we have a question from this side of

1033
00:37:04,950 --> 00:37:01,839
the room

1034
00:37:05,910 --> 00:37:04,960
all right here comes one

1035
00:37:07,510 --> 00:37:05,920
hi

1036
00:37:10,870 --> 00:37:07,520
my name is valeria i come from south

1037
00:37:12,950 --> 00:37:10,880
america from chile and uh i came with my

1038
00:37:14,790 --> 00:37:12,960
children a little late to this meeting

1039
00:37:16,870 --> 00:37:14,800
so i'm not sure if you mentioned already

1040
00:37:18,470 --> 00:37:16,880
about the kind of food you have there if

1041
00:37:20,310 --> 00:37:18,480
it is so different from the one that we

1042
00:37:22,390 --> 00:37:20,320
eat usually here

1043
00:37:24,470 --> 00:37:22,400
the the food up there is is actually

1044
00:37:26,550 --> 00:37:24,480
very similar to camping food in a lot of

1045
00:37:28,630 --> 00:37:26,560
ways we have a wide variety of foods

1046
00:37:30,870 --> 00:37:28,640
with a you know u.s provided food

1047
00:37:33,270 --> 00:37:30,880
russian provided food i had a japanese

1048
00:37:35,510 --> 00:37:33,280
crew mate so he flew a lot of special

1049
00:37:38,630 --> 00:37:35,520
you know mackerel with miso sauce

1050
00:37:41,910 --> 00:37:38,640
and and things like that um some of it's

1051
00:37:44,550 --> 00:37:41,920
dehydrated uh add hot water wait 15

1052
00:37:46,310 --> 00:37:44,560
minutes and you have scrambled eggs yum

1053
00:37:48,870 --> 00:37:46,320
i said that all of it looks bad but most

1054
00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:48,880
of it tastes okay it's uh but it's it's

1055
00:37:53,829 --> 00:37:50,880
you know heating up a pouch with a pork

1056
00:37:55,030 --> 00:37:53,839
chop in it uh very similar to a military

1057
00:37:57,670 --> 00:37:55,040
mres

1058
00:37:59,589 --> 00:37:57,680
or emergency food uh you know it the

1059
00:38:01,589 --> 00:37:59,599
parts of it get a little old but not bad

1060
00:38:03,349 --> 00:38:01,599
one thing that's a little odd

1061
00:38:05,270 --> 00:38:03,359
is a bread doesn't work real well in

1062
00:38:07,589 --> 00:38:05,280
space when you finish eating that peanut

1063
00:38:08,790 --> 00:38:07,599
butter sandwich what's left on the plate

1064
00:38:10,470 --> 00:38:08,800
crumbs

1065
00:38:12,150 --> 00:38:10,480
they don't go to the plate in space they

1066
00:38:14,230 --> 00:38:12,160
float in the air they're in your nose

1067
00:38:17,109 --> 00:38:14,240
they're in your computers

1068
00:38:18,390 --> 00:38:17,119
and so we use tortillas we eat a lot of

1069
00:38:20,470 --> 00:38:18,400
tortillas up there because they work

1070
00:38:22,870 --> 00:38:20,480
really great they hold together better

1071
00:38:26,310 --> 00:38:22,880
so you just take that pork chop

1072
00:38:27,430 --> 00:38:26,320
slap it in a tortilla add a little salsa

1073
00:38:28,310 --> 00:38:27,440
and uh

1074
00:38:30,310 --> 00:38:28,320
you know when you're good you know

1075
00:38:33,190 --> 00:38:30,320
better and jelly or peanut butter and

1076
00:38:34,790 --> 00:38:33,200
jelly absolutely i'm willing to try that

1077
00:38:36,150 --> 00:38:34,800
i eat a lot of peanut butter sandwiches

1078
00:38:38,310 --> 00:38:36,160
and i didn't miss out on my peanut

1079
00:38:40,230 --> 00:38:38,320
butter and space i ate it nicole i tried

1080
00:38:41,910 --> 00:38:40,240
that at home that will be more training

1081
00:38:44,630 --> 00:38:41,920
for you

1082
00:38:46,790 --> 00:38:44,640
see what you can eat with tortillas

1083
00:38:48,550 --> 00:38:46,800
and you each get to choose your own menu

1084
00:38:50,630 --> 00:38:48,560
right there are hundreds of choices and

1085
00:38:52,550 --> 00:38:50,640
you get to achieve whatever there is

1086
00:38:54,390 --> 00:38:52,560
there is a standard menu that repeats

1087
00:38:56,310 --> 00:38:54,400
every nine days

1088
00:38:58,390 --> 00:38:56,320
but yours isn't the same as him yes it

1089
00:39:00,790 --> 00:38:58,400
is oh it is it is now at the beginning

1090
00:39:02,630 --> 00:39:00,800
there was more uh more

1091
00:39:04,470 --> 00:39:02,640
uh more freedom but because of the way

1092
00:39:06,470 --> 00:39:04,480
the crews are stacking up we send a

1093
00:39:07,190 --> 00:39:06,480
standard thing up you know and we go for

1094
00:39:15,430 --> 00:39:07,200
the

1095
00:39:16,870 --> 00:39:15,440
hossein sauce mashed potatoes macaroni

1096
00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:16,880
and cheese but then we each get to bring

1097
00:39:20,870 --> 00:39:19,200
up some food that is our you know our

1098
00:39:22,630 --> 00:39:20,880
choice or or whatever

1099
00:39:25,510 --> 00:39:22,640
from the main menu and then other stuff

1100
00:39:27,109 --> 00:39:25,520
that's either certified um you know so

1101
00:39:28,710 --> 00:39:27,119
we do get to tailor it a little bit

1102
00:39:30,470 --> 00:39:28,720
coffees and teas too and i was really

1103
00:39:33,030 --> 00:39:30,480
lucky because katie's stuff got there

1104
00:39:34,550 --> 00:39:33,040
late and so i had a whole lot of really

1105
00:39:37,430 --> 00:39:34,560
great coffees that she'd ordered and i

1106
00:39:39,510 --> 00:39:37,440
hadn't thought about like oh bonus

1107
00:39:41,750 --> 00:39:39,520
do you find that after a while you're

1108
00:39:45,109 --> 00:39:41,760
craving for a fresh apple or a fresh

1109
00:39:47,349 --> 00:39:45,119
tomato or we get apples and tomatoes

1110
00:39:49,030 --> 00:39:47,359
they come up on the cargo ships yeah

1111
00:39:50,950 --> 00:39:49,040
i mean the things that with crumbs like

1112
00:39:52,310 --> 00:39:50,960
i like cookies you know and it's the

1113
00:39:54,470 --> 00:39:52,320
same bread thing it's not really all

1114
00:39:56,150 --> 00:39:54,480
that practical up there and so uh and

1115
00:39:58,390 --> 00:39:56,160
pizza i think all of us were kind of on

1116
00:40:01,270 --> 00:39:58,400
the pizza hunt i flew with an italian so

1117
00:40:03,030 --> 00:40:01,280
he was always on the pizza hunt

1118
00:40:04,309 --> 00:40:03,040
down here okay here we have another

1119
00:40:07,190 --> 00:40:04,319
question

1120
00:40:10,550 --> 00:40:07,200
well firstly congratulations on a great

1121
00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:10,560
expose my name is chris i'm australian

1122
00:40:14,550 --> 00:40:11,920
here on a visit

1123
00:40:15,990 --> 00:40:14,560
um my question deals with your mental

1124
00:40:19,670 --> 00:40:16,000
processes

1125
00:40:22,309 --> 00:40:19,680
really do you suffer boredom do you read

1126
00:40:25,190 --> 00:40:22,319
or are you so busy with your schedules

1127
00:40:28,710 --> 00:40:25,200
that you really totally focused mentally

1128
00:40:31,750 --> 00:40:28,720
for the whole of this particular period

1129
00:40:33,990 --> 00:40:31,760
thank you wow you can welcome

1130
00:40:35,349 --> 00:40:34,000
i mean i think we can both answer i

1131
00:40:37,430 --> 00:40:35,359
don't know if i've actually ever been

1132
00:40:39,190 --> 00:40:37,440
bored in my entire life

1133
00:40:40,710 --> 00:40:39,200
well i mean i don't know i

1134
00:40:42,550 --> 00:40:40,720
i think there's always something to

1135
00:40:43,829 --> 00:40:42,560
think about there's always something to

1136
00:40:45,829 --> 00:40:43,839
to learn

1137
00:40:47,670 --> 00:40:45,839
i do like to read i didn't choose to

1138
00:40:49,750 --> 00:40:47,680
take use my spare time that way on the

1139
00:40:51,589 --> 00:40:49,760
station i think a lot of us choose to

1140
00:40:53,510 --> 00:40:51,599
look out the window i would say you're

1141
00:40:55,670 --> 00:40:53,520
busy every single minute of the day and

1142
00:40:56,950 --> 00:40:55,680
i myself probably wish i had slept a

1143
00:40:58,630 --> 00:40:56,960
little bit more it's not like they don't

1144
00:41:00,630 --> 00:40:58,640
let you sleep or i couldn't sleep

1145
00:41:02,550 --> 00:41:00,640
there's just so much to do work wise and

1146
00:41:04,309 --> 00:41:02,560
also just personal wise spending time

1147
00:41:06,550 --> 00:41:04,319
you get to talk to your family you can

1148
00:41:08,950 --> 00:41:06,560
call them on the phone every single day

1149
00:41:10,630 --> 00:41:08,960
certainly once a day if you wanted to um

1150
00:41:12,870 --> 00:41:10,640
i mean more than that if you if you had

1151
00:41:15,190 --> 00:41:12,880
time which we don't um so there's time

1152
00:41:17,109 --> 00:41:15,200
just sharing and and maybe typing emails

1153
00:41:18,870 --> 00:41:17,119
to to sort of tell people what you've

1154
00:41:20,790 --> 00:41:18,880
been seeing mike did a really marvelous

1155
00:41:22,550 --> 00:41:20,800
job of writing emails that kind of went

1156
00:41:24,630 --> 00:41:22,560
to a large group and keeping in touch

1157
00:41:27,190 --> 00:41:24,640
with the scouts yeah

1158
00:41:29,030 --> 00:41:27,200
i read a little i had a book on the

1159
00:41:29,829 --> 00:41:29,040
shackleton expedition

1160
00:41:31,430 --> 00:41:29,839
that

1161
00:41:33,910 --> 00:41:31,440
was a failure as far as getting to the

1162
00:41:36,950 --> 00:41:33,920
south pole but it was a remarkable story

1163
00:41:37,990 --> 00:41:36,960
of leadership and survival and we saw

1164
00:41:41,030 --> 00:41:38,000
one of the

1165
00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:41,040
the islands that is way down south

1166
00:41:47,349 --> 00:41:43,760
that's that i'd never seen before

1167
00:41:49,510 --> 00:41:47,359
that was uh elephant island no i'm

1168
00:41:50,950 --> 00:41:49,520
know south georgia island which is uh

1169
00:41:53,030 --> 00:41:50,960
kind of key to that whole story and we

1170
00:41:54,790 --> 00:41:53,040
saw that we managed to get photos of

1171
00:41:56,470 --> 00:41:54,800
that island i also read a little bit of

1172
00:41:58,150 --> 00:41:56,480
a book called the

1173
00:42:01,270 --> 00:41:58,160
closing of the american frontier written

1174
00:42:04,069 --> 00:42:01,280
by john turner um and

1175
00:42:05,670 --> 00:42:04,079
it which talked it's the book's very old

1176
00:42:08,230 --> 00:42:05,680
but it talks about the chain you know

1177
00:42:09,750 --> 00:42:08,240
the the development of the of the us you

1178
00:42:12,150 --> 00:42:09,760
know frontier and that frontier

1179
00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:12,160
mentality that kind of has shaped who we

1180
00:42:17,270 --> 00:42:14,640
are as a nation and then the impact you

1181
00:42:19,349 --> 00:42:17,280
know on our national psyche when when we

1182
00:42:21,190 --> 00:42:19,359
hit the west coast and you know there

1183
00:42:22,630 --> 00:42:21,200
was no more you know the front the

1184
00:42:25,109 --> 00:42:22,640
nature of the frontier changed and i

1185
00:42:27,109 --> 00:42:25,119
thought it was interesting to to read

1186
00:42:28,710 --> 00:42:27,119
about that at the same time we're

1187
00:42:31,990 --> 00:42:28,720
opening up you know we're really

1188
00:42:33,670 --> 00:42:32,000
settling in to another you know new area

1189
00:42:35,430 --> 00:42:33,680
i enjoyed photography

1190
00:42:36,790 --> 00:42:35,440
uh and figuring out how to capture these

1191
00:42:39,589 --> 00:42:36,800
views so we could share them with you

1192
00:42:41,190 --> 00:42:39,599
today i also am uh active in the boy

1193
00:42:43,190 --> 00:42:41,200
scouting program i'm a scout master and

1194
00:42:45,589 --> 00:42:43,200
i stayed in touch with all of my boys

1195
00:42:47,510 --> 00:42:45,599
from space and sent out greetings to

1196
00:42:49,430 --> 00:42:47,520
scout camps around the country and had

1197
00:42:51,190 --> 00:42:49,440
some fun doing that and i read i read

1198
00:42:53,589 --> 00:42:51,200
actually just what i would do down here

1199
00:42:55,430 --> 00:42:53,599
i read actually books to my son who was

1200
00:42:58,069 --> 00:42:55,440
down here uh there's a really neat

1201
00:42:59,990 --> 00:42:58,079
series called peter and the starcatchers

1202
00:43:01,829 --> 00:43:00,000
and it has it's it's like about peter

1203
00:43:03,190 --> 00:43:01,839
pan before he was peter pan and i

1204
00:43:05,030 --> 00:43:03,200
thought it was especially appropriate

1205
00:43:07,190 --> 00:43:05,040
because when i'm flying up there i

1206
00:43:08,710 --> 00:43:07,200
really feel like peter pan like if you

1207
00:43:10,390 --> 00:43:08,720
think about that you know that fairy

1208
00:43:12,470 --> 00:43:10,400
dust and suddenly you could fly that's

1209
00:43:13,829 --> 00:43:12,480
what i felt like up there in this series

1210
00:43:16,390 --> 00:43:13,839
that was written by dave berry and

1211
00:43:19,270 --> 00:43:16,400
ridley pearson it's got you know smart

1212
00:43:20,950 --> 00:43:19,280
girls and smart boys and pirates and

1213
00:43:22,870 --> 00:43:20,960
fighting and treasure and everything

1214
00:43:25,349 --> 00:43:22,880
that uh everything that anybody under

1215
00:43:27,190 --> 00:43:25,359
the age of 65 could like

1216
00:43:29,430 --> 00:43:27,200
and we saw one scene of you with your

1217
00:43:31,589 --> 00:43:29,440
musical instruments yep

1218
00:43:33,030 --> 00:43:31,599
actually i played i brought uh some

1219
00:43:34,150 --> 00:43:33,040
irish flutes up there that i think

1220
00:43:35,270 --> 00:43:34,160
you'll hear a little bit more uh

1221
00:43:37,349 --> 00:43:35,280
starting

1222
00:43:39,750 --> 00:43:37,359
this week the chieftains actually used

1223
00:43:41,430 --> 00:43:39,760
what i played uh um in an album that

1224
00:43:43,750 --> 00:43:41,440
they're just about to release their 50th

1225
00:43:45,910 --> 00:43:43,760
anniversary album and so i played those

1226
00:43:47,990 --> 00:43:45,920
irish flutes one of which was 150 years

1227
00:43:50,309 --> 00:43:48,000
old so it's kind of this contrast of a

1228
00:43:51,910 --> 00:43:50,319
brand new space station in a and making

1229
00:43:53,670 --> 00:43:51,920
music in a way that they've been making

1230
00:43:56,550 --> 00:43:53,680
it for hundreds and hundreds and

1231
00:43:58,390 --> 00:43:56,560
hundreds of years uh and also played a

1232
00:43:59,910 --> 00:43:58,400
neat duet on my silver flute with

1233
00:44:03,030 --> 00:43:59,920
actually on his silver flute with ian

1234
00:44:04,790 --> 00:44:03,040
anderson of jethro tulle

1235
00:44:06,630 --> 00:44:04,800
and i imagine that your crewmates

1236
00:44:08,069 --> 00:44:06,640
enjoyed having your musical ability you

1237
00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:08,079
know you'll have to check with them

1238
00:44:11,430 --> 00:44:09,760
about that

1239
00:44:13,109 --> 00:44:11,440
i played late at night in the cupola

1240
00:44:16,150 --> 00:44:13,119
because it had the best view on earth so

1241
00:44:18,870 --> 00:44:16,160
to speak oh yes and uh and it was kind

1242
00:44:21,910 --> 00:44:19,910
hello

1243
00:44:23,750 --> 00:44:21,920
my name is andrew and i work here at the

1244
00:44:26,150 --> 00:44:23,760
how things fly gallery mostly with the

1245
00:44:27,910 --> 00:44:26,160
kids and i was wondering uh what your

1246
00:44:30,309 --> 00:44:27,920
opinions are on the

1247
00:44:31,750 --> 00:44:30,319
growth of the private industry into

1248
00:44:34,230 --> 00:44:31,760
going into space and

1249
00:44:36,390 --> 00:44:34,240
when the rest of us can maybe hope to

1250
00:44:39,109 --> 00:44:36,400
maybe be able to go into space as well i

1251
00:44:41,829 --> 00:44:39,119
think it's exciting there's there's it

1252
00:44:43,829 --> 00:44:41,839
it's exciting and it's also unsettling

1253
00:44:45,670 --> 00:44:43,839
in ways because we're not completely

1254
00:44:48,230 --> 00:44:45,680
sure how the next chapters are going to

1255
00:44:51,109 --> 00:44:48,240
play out there are a lot of really smart

1256
00:44:53,030 --> 00:44:51,119
people really motivated companies

1257
00:44:56,630 --> 00:44:53,040
that are working on this

1258
00:44:58,150 --> 00:44:56,640
they're taking a non-nasa approach to it

1259
00:44:59,990 --> 00:44:58,160
there's good things about that and

1260
00:45:01,750 --> 00:45:00,000
there's things about that that that i

1261
00:45:04,710 --> 00:45:01,760
don't you know that i want to look at a

1262
00:45:07,430 --> 00:45:04,720
little bit more before i decide but um i

1263
00:45:08,870 --> 00:45:07,440
i think that you know we're

1264
00:45:10,710 --> 00:45:08,880
we will we'll see

1265
00:45:12,309 --> 00:45:10,720
you know some breakthroughs in different

1266
00:45:13,829 --> 00:45:12,319
areas and we've already seen some of

1267
00:45:15,829 --> 00:45:13,839
those as they're all taking kind of a

1268
00:45:18,950 --> 00:45:15,839
different approach to it and we're going

1269
00:45:21,109 --> 00:45:18,960
to find ways that work and and in the

1270
00:45:22,950 --> 00:45:21,119
early days of flying airplanes it was

1271
00:45:23,829 --> 00:45:22,960
the us government that flew airplanes

1272
00:45:25,829 --> 00:45:23,839
and

1273
00:45:27,750 --> 00:45:25,839
you know for military purposes in the

1274
00:45:29,349 --> 00:45:27,760
beginning and then

1275
00:45:31,430 --> 00:45:29,359
you know we built bombers that could fly

1276
00:45:32,550 --> 00:45:31,440
across oceans and then we built

1277
00:45:34,790 --> 00:45:32,560
passenger

1278
00:45:37,349 --> 00:45:34,800
airplanes that could fly across oceans

1279
00:45:39,270 --> 00:45:37,359
and so i think we're we're seeing that

1280
00:45:41,510 --> 00:45:39,280
you know it's just been 50 years since

1281
00:45:43,270 --> 00:45:41,520
uh you know in a few months since the

1282
00:45:45,589 --> 00:45:43,280
first human launched into space and what

1283
00:45:47,190 --> 00:45:45,599
a difference you know what what

1284
00:45:49,990 --> 00:45:47,200
changes we have seen

1285
00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:50,000
and that took place only 50 years after

1286
00:45:54,230 --> 00:45:52,160
the first airplane flew

1287
00:45:56,870 --> 00:45:54,240
so aviation itself is just over 100

1288
00:45:58,150 --> 00:45:56,880
years old and and so there's been a you

1289
00:46:00,550 --> 00:45:58,160
know an incredible amount of changes and

1290
00:46:02,790 --> 00:46:00,560
those changes accelerate as the

1291
00:46:05,990 --> 00:46:02,800
technology accelerates and so we're

1292
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:06,000
going to see it we're going to see it

1293
00:46:10,950 --> 00:46:09,359
do we have one last question

1294
00:46:13,190 --> 00:46:10,960
okay

1295
00:46:14,630 --> 00:46:13,200
and then i'll turn it on

1296
00:46:16,550 --> 00:46:14,640
hi guys i'm whitney i had a quick

1297
00:46:18,069 --> 00:46:16,560
question for you um it's a two-parter

1298
00:46:19,589 --> 00:46:18,079
i'm here with my colleague megan who's

1299
00:46:21,270 --> 00:46:19,599
actually a student pharmacist from the

1300
00:46:22,710 --> 00:46:21,280
university of rhode island so i've been

1301
00:46:24,790 --> 00:46:22,720
bribing her that she needs to become a

1302
00:46:26,550 --> 00:46:24,800
nasa fellow as quickly as humanly

1303
00:46:28,309 --> 00:46:26,560
possible to do some studies with you

1304
00:46:30,550 --> 00:46:28,319
guys um she had a really great question

1305
00:46:32,470 --> 00:46:30,560
about becoming sick and what happens if

1306
00:46:34,870 --> 00:46:32,480
on the off chance a strange little virus

1307
00:46:36,470 --> 00:46:34,880
passes through your

1308
00:46:37,670 --> 00:46:36,480
gates and gets on the shuttle and how

1309
00:46:39,349 --> 00:46:37,680
you guys handle that when you're up at

1310
00:46:41,510 --> 00:46:39,359
iss and it's there

1311
00:46:43,349 --> 00:46:41,520
and i had to ask not everybody can see

1312
00:46:46,870 --> 00:46:43,359
your boots but they have a patch on them

1313
00:46:47,910 --> 00:46:46,880
and i was curious what the story was

1314
00:46:49,910 --> 00:46:47,920
okay

1315
00:46:51,430 --> 00:46:49,920
i'll answer that first

1316
00:46:53,270 --> 00:46:51,440
i'm a texan

1317
00:46:55,510 --> 00:46:53,280
and and so i just wear boots all the

1318
00:46:57,829 --> 00:46:55,520
time this is a patch these are some

1319
00:46:59,589 --> 00:46:57,839
custom boots with a patch from my second

1320
00:47:00,950 --> 00:46:59,599
shuttle mission

1321
00:47:03,190 --> 00:47:00,960
actually

1322
00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:03,200
built in sewed into the boots themselves

1323
00:47:07,190 --> 00:47:05,040
it's just for fun you know keep in mind

1324
00:47:09,030 --> 00:47:07,200
that we did a lot of training in russia

1325
00:47:10,790 --> 00:47:09,040
and so you know you saw the soyuz i mean

1326
00:47:12,710 --> 00:47:10,800
so we have soyuz simulators and they're

1327
00:47:14,390 --> 00:47:12,720
just like little soyuz right and there's

1328
00:47:16,069 --> 00:47:14,400
a kind of a like a three-step thing to

1329
00:47:17,990 --> 00:47:16,079
get up to the platform boots in houston

1330
00:47:19,510 --> 00:47:18,000
no big deal and yeah and we have

1331
00:47:22,069 --> 00:47:19,520
similars in houston and you leave your

1332
00:47:24,069 --> 00:47:22,079
shoes outside often but uh but in the in

1333
00:47:25,750 --> 00:47:24,079
russia you always leave your your shoes

1334
00:47:28,069 --> 00:47:25,760
outside the simulator and they'll just

1335
00:47:29,589 --> 00:47:28,079
be like you know shoes a couple pairs of

1336
00:47:31,670 --> 00:47:29,599
shoes two pairs of shoes and then mike's

1337
00:47:33,829 --> 00:47:31,680
boots cowboy boots and you know people

1338
00:47:35,349 --> 00:47:33,839
would be like taking pictures of those

1339
00:47:36,549 --> 00:47:35,359
cowboy boots outside

1340
00:47:40,710 --> 00:47:36,559
of the simulator there'd be people

1341
00:47:44,309 --> 00:47:42,710
they knew when i was in town but the

1342
00:47:47,109 --> 00:47:44,319
other question was about getting sick up

1343
00:47:49,030 --> 00:47:47,119
there um first we undergo a quarantine

1344
00:47:50,950 --> 00:47:49,040
before we go to try not to be sick and

1345
00:47:53,109 --> 00:47:50,960
not to bring things up to the station

1346
00:47:55,270 --> 00:47:53,119
with us and at the same time you know

1347
00:47:56,790 --> 00:47:55,280
they thought ahead we have every drug

1348
00:47:58,309 --> 00:47:56,800
imaginable

1349
00:48:00,309 --> 00:47:58,319
and we've got directions on board in

1350
00:48:01,750 --> 00:48:00,319
case we couldn't get hold of anybody we

1351
00:48:03,109 --> 00:48:01,760
almost always could get a hold of

1352
00:48:05,349 --> 00:48:03,119
someone and actually the way we are

1353
00:48:06,549 --> 00:48:05,359
forced to do medicine in terms of you

1354
00:48:07,990 --> 00:48:06,559
know if we could get hold of someone and

1355
00:48:10,390 --> 00:48:08,000
get some coaching and even let's say

1356
00:48:12,390 --> 00:48:10,400
somebody gets cut or hurt you know you'd

1357
00:48:13,910 --> 00:48:12,400
like a doctor to look at that especially

1358
00:48:15,430 --> 00:48:13,920
you know i always say that the only

1359
00:48:17,190 --> 00:48:15,440
thing scarier than a doctor coming at

1360
00:48:19,190 --> 00:48:17,200
you a needle with a needle is a pilot

1361
00:48:20,950 --> 00:48:19,200
coming at you with a needle right

1362
00:48:22,309 --> 00:48:20,960
but um but you know we don't even though

1363
00:48:23,670 --> 00:48:22,319
they're not up here none of us have i

1364
00:48:25,109 --> 00:48:23,680
guess the toshi was a doctor on your

1365
00:48:27,670 --> 00:48:25,119
crew but we didn't happen to have any on

1366
00:48:29,990 --> 00:48:27,680
our crew but you know we can show our

1367
00:48:31,829 --> 00:48:30,000
hand or whatever to the camera and our

1368
00:48:33,349 --> 00:48:31,839
docs can take a look and we can all talk

1369
00:48:35,589 --> 00:48:33,359
about well you know if you were gonna do

1370
00:48:36,710 --> 00:48:35,599
lace that up then you should do some

1371
00:48:38,470 --> 00:48:36,720
stitches you know you should do the

1372
00:48:40,309 --> 00:48:38,480
painkilling shots here and here and do

1373
00:48:43,670 --> 00:48:40,319
the stitches this way and but we're also

1374
00:48:45,270 --> 00:48:43,680
trained like that beforehand um and so

1375
00:48:47,030 --> 00:48:45,280
you know we all take when we take that

1376
00:48:50,150 --> 00:48:47,040
that training pretty seriously even to

1377
00:48:52,309 --> 00:48:50,160
the we have defibrillators um up there

1378
00:48:53,430 --> 00:48:52,319
and i urge all of you to

1379
00:48:54,870 --> 00:48:53,440
kind of notice when you're walking

1380
00:48:56,390 --> 00:48:54,880
around some public place and you're in

1381
00:48:57,829 --> 00:48:56,400
the subway or wherever i mean those

1382
00:49:00,230 --> 00:48:57,839
defibrillators that's the way people

1383
00:49:01,910 --> 00:49:00,240
survive heart attacks and uh you know so

1384
00:49:03,670 --> 00:49:01,920
it was really felt very privileged to

1385
00:49:04,870 --> 00:49:03,680
get trained to do that and they're not

1386
00:49:07,430 --> 00:49:04,880
hard to use they give you all the

1387
00:49:10,309 --> 00:49:07,440
directions and so uh we we i think we

1388
00:49:11,750 --> 00:49:10,319
bring telemedicine a ways um by what

1389
00:49:13,270 --> 00:49:11,760
we're forced to do up there on the space

1390
00:49:14,829 --> 00:49:13,280
station

1391
00:49:17,750 --> 00:49:14,839
did you talk about

1392
00:49:19,750 --> 00:49:17,760
quarantine yeah okay okay since we have

1393
00:49:21,990 --> 00:49:19,760
more time so we can keep going

1394
00:49:23,510 --> 00:49:22,000
time to do one or two more yeah okay

1395
00:49:25,349 --> 00:49:23,520
apparently we do have time for a couple

1396
00:49:27,990 --> 00:49:25,359
more questions so is there anyone else

1397
00:49:29,510 --> 00:49:28,000
over on this we're having fun

1398
00:49:31,910 --> 00:49:29,520
we'll get those we don't want to go back

1399
00:49:33,589 --> 00:49:31,920
to work so you guys just ask away

1400
00:49:34,950 --> 00:49:33,599
mary winstead from greensboro north

1401
00:49:36,230 --> 00:49:34,960
carolina

1402
00:49:37,430 --> 00:49:36,240
i um

1403
00:49:39,190 --> 00:49:37,440
years ago

1404
00:49:41,750 --> 00:49:39,200
my husband and i

1405
00:49:42,549 --> 00:49:41,760
we visited the grand canyon

1406
00:49:46,950 --> 00:49:42,559
and

1407
00:49:48,470 --> 00:49:46,960
canyon it just made me feel a little

1408
00:49:52,150 --> 00:49:48,480
insignificant

1409
00:49:54,309 --> 00:49:52,160
because you know how huge the area is

1410
00:49:56,710 --> 00:49:54,319
and i was just wondering well how can

1411
00:49:59,829 --> 00:49:56,720
you tell can you please tell us how it

1412
00:50:02,150 --> 00:49:59,839
makes you feel being outside you know of

1413
00:50:05,349 --> 00:50:02,160
the earth looking down looking back at

1414
00:50:08,069 --> 00:50:05,359
the earth how it makes you feel

1415
00:50:10,069 --> 00:50:08,079
okay i got it how does it make you feel

1416
00:50:13,270 --> 00:50:10,079
significant looking down

1417
00:50:16,710 --> 00:50:14,230
and

1418
00:50:19,190 --> 00:50:16,720
you know i'm a technical person but i

1419
00:50:22,710 --> 00:50:19,200
you know try to you know see it you know

1420
00:50:23,910 --> 00:50:22,720
with you know with an artistic eye also

1421
00:50:29,190 --> 00:50:23,920
for me

1422
00:50:30,710 --> 00:50:29,200
flight on the shuttle my job was to jump

1423
00:50:32,870 --> 00:50:30,720
out of my seat as soon as we got to

1424
00:50:34,870 --> 00:50:32,880
orbit and unstrapped and the engines cut

1425
00:50:36,870 --> 00:50:34,880
off and immediately unstrap grab a

1426
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:36,880
camera and a camcorder and jump up to

1427
00:50:41,349 --> 00:50:38,880
the window to get

1428
00:50:43,510 --> 00:50:41,359
pictures of our fuel tank as it as it

1429
00:50:44,309 --> 00:50:43,520
fell away

1430
00:50:46,069 --> 00:50:44,319
and

1431
00:50:48,470 --> 00:50:46,079
i've dreamed about this

1432
00:50:49,910 --> 00:50:48,480
since i was a little kid and worked you

1433
00:50:51,990 --> 00:50:49,920
know very hard for a lot of years for

1434
00:50:53,270 --> 00:50:52,000
the opportunity and i'm finally here and

1435
00:50:55,030 --> 00:50:53,280
you go through all the emotions of

1436
00:50:56,549 --> 00:50:55,040
riding you know on top of four and a

1437
00:50:59,430 --> 00:50:56,559
half million pounds of explosive

1438
00:51:01,109 --> 00:50:59,440
propellant and uh now you're in space

1439
00:51:02,309 --> 00:51:01,119
and you're floating but to jump up to

1440
00:51:04,390 --> 00:51:02,319
that window

1441
00:51:06,549 --> 00:51:04,400
and look at the north atlantic with the

1442
00:51:08,230 --> 00:51:06,559
blue ocean down below with a dappling of

1443
00:51:10,390 --> 00:51:08,240
white clouds spread across the top to

1444
00:51:11,270 --> 00:51:10,400
see the horizon there's a curve

1445
00:51:13,589 --> 00:51:11,280
that

1446
00:51:15,190 --> 00:51:13,599
blot intensely black sky up above even

1447
00:51:16,790 --> 00:51:15,200
though it's daylight

1448
00:51:18,390 --> 00:51:16,800
and then see the little thin band of

1449
00:51:20,790 --> 00:51:18,400
atmosphere about half the thickness of

1450
00:51:23,190 --> 00:51:20,800
the little finger on the horizon to see

1451
00:51:25,190 --> 00:51:23,200
that with my own eyes not a video not a

1452
00:51:28,950 --> 00:51:25,200
picture but my own eyes

1453
00:51:30,230 --> 00:51:28,960
was just stunning and i i just i it

1454
00:51:32,549 --> 00:51:30,240
dawned on me i'm looking at the world

1455
00:51:35,430 --> 00:51:32,559
like god sees the world took it from out

1456
00:51:36,870 --> 00:51:35,440
like like this and uh it was just i was

1457
00:51:39,030 --> 00:51:36,880
shocked for a moment

1458
00:51:41,349 --> 00:51:39,040
uh said a quick thanks and now it's time

1459
00:51:43,270 --> 00:51:41,359
to get to work yes exactly you know on

1460
00:51:44,549 --> 00:51:43,280
the on the lighter side i flew on my

1461
00:51:46,950 --> 00:51:44,559
first flight with that other guy from

1462
00:51:48,710 --> 00:51:46,960
massachusetts so cape cod was glad to be

1463
00:51:51,349 --> 00:51:48,720
from a place that has such a you know

1464
00:51:53,589 --> 00:51:51,359
very visual recognizable you know

1465
00:51:55,190 --> 00:51:53,599
geographical feature there and we looked

1466
00:51:56,790 --> 00:51:55,200
out the first time that we saw cape cod

1467
00:51:58,950 --> 00:51:56,800
and he has kind of a massachusetts

1468
00:52:03,270 --> 00:51:58,960
accent and he looks down and goes oh my

1469
00:52:05,910 --> 00:52:04,470
but it's pretty neat i mean i've been

1470
00:52:07,430 --> 00:52:05,920
looking over here at the the sort of

1471
00:52:09,750 --> 00:52:07,440
google earth thing you have over here

1472
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:09,760
and it's uh it's it's pretty planet we

1473
00:52:14,390 --> 00:52:12,640
have well and we have um our view from

1474
00:52:17,270 --> 00:52:14,400
the shuttle and space station here

1475
00:52:19,190 --> 00:52:17,280
projected on the wall and

1476
00:52:22,150 --> 00:52:19,200
when we don't have these bright lights

1477
00:52:23,430 --> 00:52:22,160
on for the program it really makes us

1478
00:52:25,349 --> 00:52:23,440
feel as if

1479
00:52:27,510 --> 00:52:25,359
we're drifting out into space it's

1480
00:52:29,990 --> 00:52:27,520
beautiful we've got time for one more

1481
00:52:32,710 --> 00:52:30,000
okay hi i'm peter from kensington

1482
00:52:35,109 --> 00:52:32,720
maryland i understand the space

1483
00:52:36,470 --> 00:52:35,119
station will be visible tonight at about

1484
00:52:38,950 --> 00:52:36,480
6 15

1485
00:52:41,670 --> 00:52:38,960
provided it's not snowing could you say

1486
00:52:45,589 --> 00:52:41,680
something about how often the station

1487
00:52:47,030 --> 00:52:45,599
comes over and how often you can see it

1488
00:52:50,069 --> 00:52:47,040
that's a great question part of it

1489
00:52:51,589 --> 00:52:50,079
depends on on how far north or south you

1490
00:52:53,349 --> 00:52:51,599
happen to live i

1491
00:52:54,630 --> 00:52:53,359
i'm embarrassed i did not know that it

1492
00:52:56,549 --> 00:52:54,640
was going to be visible this evening

1493
00:52:58,870 --> 00:52:56,559
that's a really cool thing to share

1494
00:53:00,710 --> 00:52:58,880
if you have not seen it before go

1495
00:53:03,510 --> 00:53:00,720
outside um

1496
00:53:04,870 --> 00:53:03,520
it the the what the time when you can

1497
00:53:06,549 --> 00:53:04,880
see it is

1498
00:53:07,829 --> 00:53:06,559
after sunset

1499
00:53:10,390 --> 00:53:07,839
you know how sometimes you can see the

1500
00:53:12,829 --> 00:53:10,400
airline flying it's the sun is set here

1501
00:53:15,109 --> 00:53:12,839
but you could see maybe even the

1502
00:53:16,470 --> 00:53:15,119
mountaintops not here obviously but if

1503
00:53:18,069 --> 00:53:16,480
you're around mountains you see that the

1504
00:53:20,069 --> 00:53:18,079
sun is still shining on the mountaintop

1505
00:53:21,510 --> 00:53:20,079
even though in the valleys it's it's the

1506
00:53:25,030 --> 00:53:21,520
sun has set

1507
00:53:26,790 --> 00:53:25,040
same thing we're 220 to 40 miles up

1508
00:53:28,870 --> 00:53:26,800
and so when it's dark on the ground the

1509
00:53:31,910 --> 00:53:28,880
space station you know aft just after

1510
00:53:34,630 --> 00:53:31,920
sun set and just before sunrise within

1511
00:53:35,829 --> 00:53:34,640
an hour or two hours sunrise and sunset

1512
00:53:37,829 --> 00:53:35,839
it's it's visible because it's

1513
00:53:39,990 --> 00:53:37,839
illuminated even though and so you could

1514
00:53:41,829 --> 00:53:40,000
see it and it's really big and those big

1515
00:53:44,150 --> 00:53:41,839
solar panels and stuff reflect a lot of

1516
00:53:45,990 --> 00:53:44,160
light i mean i urge you to uh go to the

1517
00:53:48,150 --> 00:53:46,000
internet maybe find out the exact time i

1518
00:53:51,670 --> 00:53:48,160
mean is it exactly 6 15

1519
00:53:54,790 --> 00:53:51,680
is it exactly 6 15 tonight

1520
00:53:57,589 --> 00:53:54,800
i believe it is 6 15 tonight it's about

1521
00:54:00,069 --> 00:53:57,599
51 degrees altitude and it'll be

1522
00:54:01,670 --> 00:54:00,079
traveling from southwest to

1523
00:54:03,589 --> 00:54:01,680
north northwest so he just said

1524
00:54:05,030 --> 00:54:03,599
everything that's important which when i

1525
00:54:06,950 --> 00:54:05,040
look at that chart it's a look on the

1526
00:54:08,710 --> 00:54:06,960
internet it's on the nasa site you know

1527
00:54:11,030 --> 00:54:08,720
you can put in wherever you live and

1528
00:54:12,390 --> 00:54:11,040
it'll tell you and you may think oh i'm

1529
00:54:14,150 --> 00:54:12,400
not the kind of person that can see that

1530
00:54:15,990 --> 00:54:14,160
kind of thing it's going to be the

1531
00:54:17,990 --> 00:54:16,000
brightest star given that it's clear out

1532
00:54:20,710 --> 00:54:18,000
it's the brightest star and it's going

1533
00:54:22,710 --> 00:54:20,720
to go over at about this fast when he

1534
00:54:24,549 --> 00:54:22,720
said about 50 degrees anything over

1535
00:54:25,910 --> 00:54:24,559
about 30 is going to look like it's up

1536
00:54:27,589 --> 00:54:25,920
there and anything like 50 is going to

1537
00:54:30,230 --> 00:54:27,599
look like it's directly overhead even

1538
00:54:31,430 --> 00:54:30,240
though that's actually 90. um and so

1539
00:54:33,829 --> 00:54:31,440
it's the thing it's just going to be a

1540
00:54:34,790 --> 00:54:33,839
really bright star going about this

1541
00:54:36,549 --> 00:54:34,800
speed

1542
00:54:38,870 --> 00:54:36,559
and there's six people aboard no

1543
00:54:40,630 --> 00:54:38,880
flashing lights and no flashing lights

1544
00:54:42,390 --> 00:54:40,640
otherwise it's an airplane but you can

1545
00:54:43,910 --> 00:54:42,400
see it and i just urge you i think it's

1546
00:54:45,990 --> 00:54:43,920
just pretty neat when you talked about

1547
00:54:47,510 --> 00:54:46,000
the grand canyon and stand on the edge i

1548
00:54:49,349 --> 00:54:47,520
feel a little bit like that when i'm

1549
00:54:51,190 --> 00:54:49,359
standing on the earth and i look up and

1550
00:54:53,750 --> 00:54:51,200
i know my friends are at work or on

1551
00:54:55,750 --> 00:54:53,760
their way to bed up on the space station

1552
00:54:57,750 --> 00:54:55,760
yeah

1553
00:54:59,510 --> 00:54:57,760
would you two like to make any closing

1554
00:55:00,470 --> 00:54:59,520
comments

1555
00:55:03,589 --> 00:55:00,480
sure

1556
00:55:06,150 --> 00:55:03,599
yeah you close okay okay

1557
00:55:09,109 --> 00:55:06,160
i i hope you do get to see it it's the

1558
00:55:13,349 --> 00:55:09,119
space station was actually begun the

1559
00:55:15,829 --> 00:55:13,359
program was begun about 30 years ago

1560
00:55:17,349 --> 00:55:15,839
and it took a long time to get there

1561
00:55:19,030 --> 00:55:17,359
there were a lot of twists and turns

1562
00:55:20,630 --> 00:55:19,040
along the way some delays along the way

1563
00:55:24,470 --> 00:55:20,640
and that 30 years ago it was a concept

1564
00:55:25,510 --> 00:55:24,480
it was a few a few briefing charts um

1565
00:55:27,270 --> 00:55:25,520
but it

1566
00:55:29,990 --> 00:55:27,280
you know the space shuttle has really

1567
00:55:31,589 --> 00:55:30,000
fulfilled its you know final really

1568
00:55:33,910 --> 00:55:31,599
really huge mission the mission for

1569
00:55:35,990 --> 00:55:33,920
which it was built hauling big pieces of

1570
00:55:37,990 --> 00:55:36,000
stuff to space

1571
00:55:40,950 --> 00:55:38,000
and and the space station that we have

1572
00:55:42,950 --> 00:55:40,960
today the size of the the modules the

1573
00:55:45,589 --> 00:55:42,960
pieces the internal volume that we have

1574
00:55:47,430 --> 00:55:45,599
to fly in i mean that's because of the

1575
00:55:49,109 --> 00:55:47,440
space shuttle program because that big

1576
00:55:51,349 --> 00:55:49,119
cargo bay had the ability to haul those

1577
00:55:53,109 --> 00:55:51,359
things the other parts of the station

1578
00:55:55,990 --> 00:55:53,119
that did not fly up on the shuttle or

1579
00:55:57,910 --> 00:55:56,000
smaller diameter uh with you know less

1580
00:56:00,309 --> 00:55:57,920
commensurate less capability it's an

1581
00:56:02,309 --> 00:56:00,319
amazing thing that we've done

1582
00:56:05,030 --> 00:56:02,319
and it's a testament to you know the

1583
00:56:06,710 --> 00:56:05,040
dreams and commitment of of really tens

1584
00:56:09,109 --> 00:56:06,720
of thousands hundreds of thousands of

1585
00:56:11,109 --> 00:56:09,119
people around the planet with 15

1586
00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:11,119
countries participating in this

1587
00:56:14,829 --> 00:56:12,880
countries that don't have a long history

1588
00:56:17,349 --> 00:56:14,839
of you know friendly relations and

1589
00:56:18,470 --> 00:56:17,359
cooperation you know like russia

1590
00:56:20,789 --> 00:56:18,480
um

1591
00:56:23,430 --> 00:56:20,799
but it you know it really is a testament

1592
00:56:24,630 --> 00:56:23,440
though to to the human ingenuity and

1593
00:56:27,270 --> 00:56:24,640
persistence

1594
00:56:29,589 --> 00:56:27,280
and the the the drive to turn this kind

1595
00:56:31,589 --> 00:56:29,599
of a dream into a reality you know we

1596
00:56:33,270 --> 00:56:31,599
had personal dreams to participate in

1597
00:56:35,349 --> 00:56:33,280
the program in some way

1598
00:56:38,069 --> 00:56:35,359
and and each of us has our own story for

1599
00:56:40,390 --> 00:56:38,079
how we we managed to you know persevere

1600
00:56:42,470 --> 00:56:40,400
and go through school and and seize on

1601
00:56:43,990 --> 00:56:42,480
different opportunities to you know to

1602
00:56:45,910 --> 00:56:44,000
prepare ourselves if we ever got the

1603
00:56:48,710 --> 00:56:45,920
opportunity to do this and we're very

1604
00:56:51,109 --> 00:56:48,720
blessed in so many ways but and we we

1605
00:56:53,190 --> 00:56:51,119
also take our responsibility in that

1606
00:56:55,349 --> 00:56:53,200
seriously because we know we're flying

1607
00:56:58,150 --> 00:56:55,359
for you but not everybody's going to get

1608
00:57:00,390 --> 00:56:58,160
the opportunity to do this now and we

1609
00:57:01,910 --> 00:57:00,400
would do our best you know to to make

1610
00:57:03,109 --> 00:57:01,920
the best of that experience to get our

1611
00:57:05,109 --> 00:57:03,119
work done

1612
00:57:06,630 --> 00:57:05,119
and then find ways to to share the

1613
00:57:09,750 --> 00:57:06,640
experience and a little bit of the

1614
00:57:12,950 --> 00:57:09,760
wonder but it's what it's really like

1615
00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:12,960
and i just say again that welcome to the

1616
00:57:16,549 --> 00:57:13,760
uh

1617
00:57:19,270 --> 00:57:16,559
the air and space museum it it's a

1618
00:57:20,630 --> 00:57:19,280
magical place with the stories behind

1619
00:57:22,789 --> 00:57:20,640
each one of these amazing flying

1620
00:57:25,510 --> 00:57:22,799
machines through the halls around here

1621
00:57:26,950 --> 00:57:25,520
and it's really an honor for us to to be

1622
00:57:29,190 --> 00:57:26,960
here to be part of this to tell our

1623
00:57:31,510 --> 00:57:29,200
stories thank you very much thank you

1624
00:57:35,910 --> 00:57:31,520
thank you

1625
00:57:38,069 --> 00:57:35,920
you two have certainly both added to the

1626
00:57:39,910 --> 00:57:38,079
stories that we can tell here in this

1627
00:57:41,990 --> 00:57:39,920
gallery and that we'll be able to tell

1628
00:57:43,190 --> 00:57:42,000
when we have discovery on display and

1629
00:57:45,109 --> 00:57:43,200
think about it you know each of the

1630
00:57:47,030 --> 00:57:45,119
little beasts around here that you see

1631
00:57:48,870 --> 00:57:47,040
these big things i mean

1632
00:57:51,030 --> 00:57:48,880
there's people that that was their life

1633
00:57:52,390 --> 00:57:51,040
to get that thing built and operating

1634
00:57:55,589 --> 00:57:52,400
and so there's these kind of stories

1635
00:57:57,750 --> 00:57:55,599
around every everything in this museum

1636
00:57:59,589 --> 00:57:57,760
so we so appreciate your spending this

1637
00:58:01,670 --> 00:57:59,599
time this afternoon with us and we

1638
00:58:03,910 --> 00:58:01,680
appreciate all of you who came today

1639
00:58:06,309 --> 00:58:03,920
great question to the museum and came to

1640
00:58:09,349 --> 00:58:06,319
this talk uh let's give our astronauts

1641
00:58:11,030 --> 00:58:09,359
one more round of applause

1642
00:58:13,030 --> 00:58:11,040
oops i guess i'm giving myself a hand

1643
00:58:16,069 --> 00:58:13,040
yeah it's okay