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good morning commander bravery this is

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uh tarek malik with space.com how do you

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good morning commander burbank this is a

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tariq malik with space.com tarek good

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morning got you loud and clear oh great

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well uh thank you so much for having

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some uh some time to talk with us today

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and welcome uh welcome back to

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uh to houston obviously um you know i

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guess our first question is how how has

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uh coming back home after uh landing uh

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uh and uh and readapting to

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you know all the

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the the

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the minor details of life on earth with

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gravity

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challenging thing i think compared to a

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shuttle mission though in some ways it

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was probably a little bit easier and

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it's because i think now for the long

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duration missions with the exercise

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equipment you got on board you can act

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in the time that we devote to it every

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day you can actually

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finish out a mission and uh and feel

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like you're you're fairly fit it does

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take a little bit of time to get your

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your gyros working properly again but

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after two weeks i feel pretty much back

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that's that's good to hear it uh has

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there been any um unexpected side

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effects of getting back to earth have

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you if you uh i think some volkswagen

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told us how you know maybe uh they they

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put a glass up in the air i think it's

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gonna float and and they forget that

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there is gravity anything like that uh

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so far none maybe because i'm i'm a

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little bit careful about it i uh

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actually after the after a shuttle

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mission though uh occasionally that

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would that would be the case you'd be

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put out a shaving a can of shaving cream

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in front of you and expect it to float

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there and i haven't had anything like

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that this time but uh you know i feel

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very very normal um

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look forward very much to running every

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day getting out and uh and actually

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running and watching the world go by

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instead of running out of treadmills uh

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it's really really pleasant very nice

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well now that now that you're back what

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what uh

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what was the the one thing

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if there is one thing that that you can

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that was a maybe like a a small

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comfort of life on earth something

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that's obviously your family and friends

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uh but just one of those those little

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you got back you're like oh i really

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missed this

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yeah i think hands down family

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the time that you spend away on station

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actually the time that you spend away

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from family uh during the couple of

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years of training leading up to your

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launch um that's that's pretty tough

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that's one of the toughest aspects i

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but to get back and and be with family

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that's most precious you missed most

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there's there's a lot of things the the

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kinds of food that you might eat here

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but uh but it still isn't quite the same

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as having fresh vegetables and uh and so

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there's a lot of that that you you

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know crew uh living

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what was that that first uh maybe earth

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in houston a meat lover's pizza that was

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a t-bone steak too that we we managed to

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station i think for all of us you you

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unbelievable through the cupola and

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those are are are something that'll

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that'll always mean a lot to you but i

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making it become a home for you that you

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transition which does take some time

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really neatest most rewarding aspects

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be uh speaking with you uh today is we

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asked um our space.com readers uh if

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there are any questions they would ask

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you if they could and they sent us some

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some really interesting ones and and if

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it's all right i hope to to ask them um

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he he mentioned that he's heard about

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the high-speed particles that astronauts

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of earth where a lot of these charged

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energetic the sun may be what the

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mars and we'll visit asteroids and i

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private the privatization of space we

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thoughts are to to to ride on a a a

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private capsule

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and what it means to have more than one

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uh

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group with a spacecraft for the united

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states

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i probably speak for a lot of us that

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have been doing this business for a

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while and uh and i and i think riding on

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any space vehicle would be great you

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want to make sure they're safe you want

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to make sure that

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that the vehicles have all the

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redundancy they need to have so that you

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can safely get to and from space not

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just for ourselves but

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what that means for the future of space

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travel

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i think the more means the more ways

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that we have to get to space the better

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it's we we don't want to have only a

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single way to do it and i think for us

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in our in our own personal interests as

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americans i think it's good for us to

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have american-built vehicles as well but

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um but again i believe it's a this is

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the kind of thing that we do as a as a

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human species so

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i am happy to see us have more and more

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capability to get to low earth orbit i

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think i think it's probably the job of

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of countries and job of space agencies

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to invest in the the hardest thing and

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right now i think the hardest thing is

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leaving low earth orbit going into deep

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space so the the space launch system

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which will give us heavy lift capability

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to get lots of hardware up into low

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earth orbit that we can then take to the

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moon and mars and uh in asteroids i

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think that is really the purview of nasa

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and having a deep space spacecraft like

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orion the multi-purpose crew vehicle is

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the thing to do there but we've gotten

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to the point in space exploration i

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think where commercial companies can can

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take over that piece again from low

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earth orbit or from the surface of the

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earth to low earth orbit and nasa and

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other space agencies can contract that

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out and it will also give the you know

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the those commercial entities the

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capability of of selling those services

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um to other folks maybe not space and

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you know space agencies per se and the

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more people we have in space the better

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it is i think for all of us

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great well commander burma you know

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thank you so much i could ask you

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questions all day but i know that uh my

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time unfortunately is is up

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welcome back again all the best and we

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look forward to your next spaceflight

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derek thanks very much it was good

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to

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for the surfers and then more of a

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choppy effect to the waters as we head

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toward the weekend time frame that'll

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start like tonight through our friday

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saturday and sunday probably blowing

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northeast at 15 to 20 knots with seas

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coming up good morning dan this is

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orlando can you hear me i guess you're

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like he's across the coastal areas today

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same for the interior thank you so much

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for talking with us you're going to be

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talking with john coming up john coming

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up in just about a minute county six

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okay very good thank you got the coast

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all the way into the treasure thank you

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so very much

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flapping in the breeze friday and

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saturday and possibly for sunday

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overnight lows around 70 and the weekend

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temps saturday looking good around 85.

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well the roads are still calm out there

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for the most part jamie which is

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something we like to see we don't

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typically get days like today we're

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completely accident-free along the i-4

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corridor also 408 looking great and as a

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result you can see all of your drive

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times are still unaffected this morning

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let's take you down to a d.o.t camera to

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show you a few images of this you can

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see i-4 conroy the eastbound side of

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course getting just a little bit busier

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as they head towards the downtown

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skyline which you can see way off there

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in the distance but the westbound side

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moving just fine at this early hour we

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have one other camera to show you in

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maitland many of you of course

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are headed down from seminole county to

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the downtown region you can see cars

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here are flying by at 7 15. now let's

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send it back to john and amy all right

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we're saving you some money with the

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stand by dan today at 3 49 a gallon

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at the hess station on vineland road and

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polynesian isle boulevard in kissimmee

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and it's also below 350 349 a gallon at

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the shell station on state road 535 and

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vestana drive in orlando

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new jobs could be headed to the space

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coast soon to help fill the void left by

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the retired space shuttle program a

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company called atk is unveiling a new

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rocket and spacecraft system and they

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unveiled it yesterday if nasa decides to

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use it it could mean 150 to 200 new jobs

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along the space coast atk says test

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launches should start in 2014. the

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system could be ready to send astronauts

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to the iss by 2016. and speaking of the

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future of space flight our astronauts

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are still in a sort of limbo right now

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trying to figure out how they're going

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to be getting to and from the iss for

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future missions and joining us live on

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good day is astronaut dan burbank he's

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got some local ties i believe dan you

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got your master's degree over at embry

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riddle right right you spend a lot of

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time here in central florida um that's

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right actually john i i got the i took

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those courses while i was at nasa at

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langley um at the uh the embry riddle

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campus that was up there but uh but yes

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i have been to uh to the to the campus

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as well down in florida

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all right you spend a lot of time up on

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the iss a lot of people wonder what

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really happens up there what exactly

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were you working on

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um an awful lot for one thing we've got

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nearly a million pounds worth of space

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station up there and it's manned and

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operated by six folks uh typically and

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although right now we're in a in a short

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couple of week period where we have just

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three crew members on board and lots of

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science is going on board during the six

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months we were there there we did about

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200 different scientific investigations

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a lot of the things you do on space

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station is keeping the space station

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operating and probably one of the

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harshest environments known to uh to

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humans but

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but a lot of it is the science right now

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that is the main thrust that's what

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space station was built for

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dan i had two separate people ask me

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yesterday when they found out i was

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going to be talking to you they said

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what do they do in their downtime do you

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guys work around the clock or when

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you're off the clock what exactly can

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you do on the iss well our work day

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typically goes from about six in the

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morning when you get up till about

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seven

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maybe eight or nine at the latest

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typically in the evenings and you have

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you have of course the typical breaks

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you have for meals and also for exercise

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time

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includes a day and a half on the

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weekends and the after hours time a lot

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of it is spent looking out the windows

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taking imagery of planet earth taking

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imagery of

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of different uh celestial objects uh

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auroras for example

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we have the capability of uh watching

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news watching uh movies on occasion if

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we have the time

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but just living in space i think is uh

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is you know living and experiencing what

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it's like to be up there and uh spending

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time uh you know with the other crew

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members uh enjoying meals together and

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uh and talking is typically what you do

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an office with a heck of a view now you

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actually got back from the iss thanks to

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a russian soyuz rocket what are your

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thoughts on private industries like

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we're talking about so much here in

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central florida getting into the space

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race do you like that or does it concern

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you um it it doesn't concern me i think

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the more ways we have to get to space

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the better off we all are and and i

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would like to see us have as many

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different american built vehicles as we

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possibly can but in general for for

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humans to access space we just need to

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have many of them and up until now uh

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developing and operating those

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spacecraft has really been the purview

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of

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space agencies and using the tax dollars

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of of the citizens of those countries

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that support it

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and typically that's the kind of thing

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that nasa has done now truly private

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industry has developed those vehicles

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for us in the past

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but they have developed those with a lot

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of involvement directly from the from

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the scientists and engineers of nasa for

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example

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we've gotten to the point i think right

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now where the accessing low earth orbit

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is something that commercial companies

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can do with less direct involvement less

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direction by nasa for example and i

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think it's nasa's job to take the next

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step and that is to go from low earth

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orbit to deep space so we want to go to

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the moon to mars and to asteroids and i

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think developing the sls developing a

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deep space spacecraft like orion to get

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us there that's what we should be doing

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but i'd be happy to fly on some of these

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commercial developed vehicles that are

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currently in work

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that seems to be the way it's going

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astronaut dan burbank thanks so much we

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hope to talk to you soon okay thank you

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we're ready

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hey dan good morning it's peter king at

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cbs news radio how are you this morning

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peter i'm doing great it's great to be

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with you again it's good to talk to you

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again and uh listening to your answers

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earlier with uh tarek it sounds like

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your adjustment to earth uh has been

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pretty quick so i'm wondering just how

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quickly can you get back to uh running

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and jogging and do those uh doing those

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uh strenuous earthly activities that

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you've missed yeah well well it was our

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plus one you know return plus one day

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when uh when i was doing a vo2 or oxygen

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maximal uptake experiment so we were

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they're putting me to work pretty early

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but that was on a bicycle it wasn't any

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pounding it wasn't like if you're out

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running on trails and so forth so it was

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probably i guess uh return plus four or

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five days when i when i first got to do

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a little bit of jogging but were your

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legs wobbly or they feel good that first

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time yeah actually not too bad you know

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i remember um after shuttle missions

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just walking on the beach at cocoa beach

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after uh shortly after landing you know

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doing that for an hour or so the next

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couple of days feeling you know really

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really tired very sore legs with a red

549
00:21:41,909 --> 00:21:40,000
which is the advanced resistive exercise

550
00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:41,919
device we got on station you know we can

551
00:21:46,310 --> 00:21:44,480
do squats and deadlifts and heel raises

552
00:21:48,710 --> 00:21:46,320
at really high load and i think for the

553
00:21:50,149 --> 00:21:48,720
most part we're coming back with about

554
00:21:52,310 --> 00:21:50,159
you know in as good shape as you could

555
00:21:53,830 --> 00:21:52,320
be from from a lower body standpoint so

556
00:21:55,270 --> 00:21:53,840
that part's been actually pretty easy

557
00:21:57,510 --> 00:21:55,280
over the last year or so there have been

558
00:21:58,789 --> 00:21:57,520
a number of reports about uh the the eye

559
00:22:01,029 --> 00:21:58,799
side of returning astronauts and

560
00:22:02,630 --> 00:22:01,039
cosmonauts from the space station and

561
00:22:04,789 --> 00:22:02,640
how sometimes there have been visual

562
00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:04,799
changes visual impairments sometimes

563
00:22:09,590 --> 00:22:07,120
visual impairments up in space uh first

564
00:22:11,510 --> 00:22:09,600
of all how's your eyesight at this point

565
00:22:13,029 --> 00:22:11,520
and did you experience any of that while

566
00:22:14,310 --> 00:22:13,039
you're up there

567
00:22:15,909 --> 00:22:14,320
peter i was actually pretty lucky there

568
00:22:18,149 --> 00:22:15,919
was no change at all

569
00:22:20,630 --> 00:22:18,159
from a from an eyesight standpoint and

570
00:22:22,390 --> 00:22:20,640
uh and it's been it's been the minority

571
00:22:24,630 --> 00:22:22,400
of crew members astronauts and

572
00:22:26,149 --> 00:22:24,640
cosmonauts that have had that and i

573
00:22:27,830 --> 00:22:26,159
think the scientists are still trying to

574
00:22:30,149 --> 00:22:27,840
get their arms around exactly what the

575
00:22:32,390 --> 00:22:30,159
phenomena is but but we actually protect

576
00:22:33,909 --> 00:22:32,400
for it and we have uh we've got all of

577
00:22:36,070 --> 00:22:33,919
our standard glasses that we might have

578
00:22:37,510 --> 00:22:36,080
flown beforehand and we've also got some

579
00:22:39,669 --> 00:22:37,520
that'll that'll get us a little bit

580
00:22:41,350 --> 00:22:39,679
higher power if we need it on orbit but

581
00:22:42,789 --> 00:22:41,360
i was lucky i think you know how they

582
00:22:45,110 --> 00:22:42,799
saying there's they say there's no

583
00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:45,120
crying in baseball you know if you wake

584
00:22:47,990 --> 00:22:46,320
up in the morning on earth and you have

585
00:22:49,669 --> 00:22:48,000
a bad head cold like i did the last

586
00:22:52,310 --> 00:22:49,679
couple of mornings you could call in

587
00:22:54,950 --> 00:22:52,320
sick but you know are there sick days in

588
00:22:57,270 --> 00:22:54,960
space or there are no sick days in space

589
00:22:58,789 --> 00:22:57,280
we didn't need any sick days i i suppose

590
00:23:00,149 --> 00:22:58,799
if somebody you know certainly if

591
00:23:01,510 --> 00:23:00,159
somebody was ill if somebody had a

592
00:23:02,870 --> 00:23:01,520
problem you know we could we could

593
00:23:05,029 --> 00:23:02,880
accommodate that

594
00:23:06,710 --> 00:23:05,039
it's interesting because here on planet

595
00:23:07,750 --> 00:23:06,720
earth or traveling the way we typically

596
00:23:09,350 --> 00:23:07,760
do

597
00:23:12,070 --> 00:23:09,360
it's really easy to get a little bit run

598
00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:12,080
down and get a cold nobody had a cold of

599
00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:14,320
any sort there's no flus or cold you

600
00:23:17,110 --> 00:23:15,600
know if somebody were to bring something

601
00:23:19,029 --> 00:23:17,120
up if somebody was sick before they

602
00:23:20,070 --> 00:23:19,039
launched i suppose that could happen but

603
00:23:21,590 --> 00:23:20,080
you're up there you're working pretty

604
00:23:23,830 --> 00:23:21,600
hard working long days maybe getting a

605
00:23:26,470 --> 00:23:23,840
little bit run down but uh but nobody

606
00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:26,480
was nobody had any issues from a from a

607
00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:28,000
medical standpoint which was actually

608
00:23:31,430 --> 00:23:29,919
kind of nice you visited the station

609
00:23:33,190 --> 00:23:31,440
before obviously this is your first

610
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:33,200
long-duration mission there did it did

611
00:23:37,669 --> 00:23:34,840
it live up to or exceed your

612
00:23:40,950 --> 00:23:37,679
expectations uh it exceeded them uh many

613
00:23:45,029 --> 00:23:40,960
many fold over when i was there last on

614
00:23:46,390 --> 00:23:45,039
12a sts-115 in september 2006

615
00:23:48,149 --> 00:23:46,400
we the space station was probably

616
00:23:50,390 --> 00:23:48,159
two-thirds the size of what it is

617
00:23:52,789 --> 00:23:50,400
currently and we didn't have a cupola so

618
00:23:55,029 --> 00:23:52,799
we didn't have this unbelievable window

619
00:23:57,830 --> 00:23:55,039
on the world that allows you to see a

620
00:23:59,590 --> 00:23:57,840
continent worth beneath you you can see

621
00:24:02,549 --> 00:23:59,600
thousands of miles in all directions and

622
00:24:05,269 --> 00:24:02,559
that place that window is

623
00:24:07,110 --> 00:24:05,279
in and of itself is uh probably uh worth

624
00:24:08,630 --> 00:24:07,120
being up there if you needed any reason

625
00:24:10,549 --> 00:24:08,640
so

626
00:24:11,830 --> 00:24:10,559
we have a new crew or three new crew

627
00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:11,840
members getting ready to launch into

628
00:24:16,630 --> 00:24:14,640
soyuz next monday and i'm wondering i'm

629
00:24:17,350 --> 00:24:16,640
sure you guys crossed paths for a while

630
00:24:20,789 --> 00:24:17,360
uh

631
00:24:23,269 --> 00:24:20,799
them about your experience that's going

632
00:24:25,350 --> 00:24:23,279
to help them out yeah we we get to talk

633
00:24:27,510 --> 00:24:25,360
a lot although not as much as i would

634
00:24:29,669 --> 00:24:27,520
have liked i'd like to give joe gennady

635
00:24:31,909 --> 00:24:29,679
and sergey one more call before before

636
00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:31,919
they leave but but uh they've all been

637
00:24:35,269 --> 00:24:33,520
there before well sergey actually this

638
00:24:36,630 --> 00:24:35,279
will be his first flight but gennady has

639
00:24:38,549 --> 00:24:36,640
certainly spent a lot of time on space

640
00:24:40,789 --> 00:24:38,559
station and joe's been up there on on

641
00:24:42,549 --> 00:24:40,799
space shuttle missions and uh and i

642
00:24:44,470 --> 00:24:42,559
think i think they're going to be

643
00:24:46,390 --> 00:24:44,480
wonderfully pleasantly surprised at what

644
00:24:48,710 --> 00:24:46,400
it's like to be there and i think for

645
00:24:50,070 --> 00:24:48,720
joe being up there for a long duration

646
00:24:51,669 --> 00:24:50,080
he's going to love every minute of it i

647
00:24:53,510 --> 00:24:51,679
think everybody that goes there that's

648
00:24:55,830 --> 00:24:53,520
made that transition from the shuttle

649
00:24:57,350 --> 00:24:55,840
style mission to a long duration mission

650
00:24:59,350 --> 00:24:57,360
is just going to be

651
00:25:00,950 --> 00:24:59,360
wild is going to be going to be very

652
00:25:02,789 --> 00:25:00,960
delighted with what it's like to be up

653
00:25:04,549 --> 00:25:02,799
there that said they're going to be very

654
00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:04,559
very busy early on with the expected

655
00:25:08,950 --> 00:25:06,880
arrival of the spacex dragon capsule if

656
00:25:10,870 --> 00:25:08,960
everything goes as planned you know the

657
00:25:12,630 --> 00:25:10,880
station crew that's up there right now

658
00:25:14,630 --> 00:25:12,640
uh the folks you left behind have had a

659
00:25:16,470 --> 00:25:14,640
lot of time to prepare as did you i

660
00:25:19,590 --> 00:25:16,480
think that was originally supposed to be

661
00:25:21,269 --> 00:25:19,600
during your personal increment but uh

662
00:25:22,789 --> 00:25:21,279
you know there are some long poles to

663
00:25:25,350 --> 00:25:22,799
clear and if you could talk a little bit

664
00:25:27,430 --> 00:25:25,360
about that uh you know the difficulty or

665
00:25:28,549 --> 00:25:27,440
or the ease of doing this

666
00:25:30,390 --> 00:25:28,559
yeah

667
00:25:32,710 --> 00:25:30,400
i wouldn't have much to say about the

668
00:25:35,110 --> 00:25:32,720
ease of doing it i think we get reminded

669
00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:35,120
many times how difficult uh space flight

670
00:25:40,310 --> 00:25:37,760
is um but uh but i think it's important

671
00:25:42,870 --> 00:25:40,320
for the spacex dragon vehicle the spacex

672
00:25:45,190 --> 00:25:42,880
demo mission this first one to for us to

673
00:25:47,029 --> 00:25:45,200
make sure that the vehicle is in the

674
00:25:49,430 --> 00:25:47,039
best configuration it can be this is a

675
00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:49,440
critical capability the logistics life

676
00:25:52,950 --> 00:25:50,960
stream that

677
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:52,960
that all these vehicles provide space

678
00:25:56,230 --> 00:25:54,480
station is critical if we want to keep a

679
00:25:58,070 --> 00:25:56,240
crew up there long term and do the

680
00:25:59,510 --> 00:25:58,080
science space station was meant for we

681
00:26:01,830 --> 00:25:59,520
have to make sure we have vehicles like

682
00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:01,840
the spacex dragon like the orbital

683
00:26:06,950 --> 00:26:04,320
sciences cygnus and and the other

684
00:26:08,630 --> 00:26:06,960
vehicles that that supply these critical

685
00:26:11,190 --> 00:26:08,640
supplies to stations so we've got to

686
00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:11,200
make sure it goes well the the track and

687
00:26:14,710 --> 00:26:13,120
capture operation the robotics operation

688
00:26:17,190 --> 00:26:14,720
that the crew is going to do to actually

689
00:26:19,510 --> 00:26:17,200
uh capture dragon and put it on on board

690
00:26:21,350 --> 00:26:19,520
space station attached to uh to node two

691
00:26:22,870 --> 00:26:21,360
is a very very critical thing it's

692
00:26:25,190 --> 00:26:22,880
something we've many crews have trained

693
00:26:26,549 --> 00:26:25,200
for already and these guys will be ready

694
00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:26,559
when it gets there and would be uh neat

695
00:26:30,390 --> 00:26:28,640
to see and you've done that kind of

696
00:26:33,190 --> 00:26:30,400
operation before in moving heavy pieces

697
00:26:35,110 --> 00:26:33,200
of the space station around but uh is

698
00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:35,120
this a lot different than that

699
00:26:38,390 --> 00:26:37,760
well when i've done this before i pulled

700
00:26:55,990 --> 00:26:38,400
a

701
00:26:57,190 --> 00:26:56,000
the hdv

702
00:26:58,549 --> 00:26:57,200
or like

703
00:27:01,430 --> 00:26:58,559
the spacex

704
00:27:02,950 --> 00:27:01,440
dragon or the cygnus uh orbital sciences

705
00:27:04,870 --> 00:27:02,960
cygnus vehicle those come up and they

706
00:27:07,110 --> 00:27:04,880
fly formation with space stations so

707
00:27:09,750 --> 00:27:07,120
space station and this vehicle are very

708
00:27:12,149 --> 00:27:09,760
precisely flying at the orbital speeds

709
00:27:13,830 --> 00:27:12,159
of 17 000 miles an hour and then at a

710
00:27:16,310 --> 00:27:13,840
certain point when the vehicle is at a

711
00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:16,320
safe distance and behaving well

712
00:27:20,630 --> 00:27:18,480
a free drift command is given by the

713
00:27:22,070 --> 00:27:20,640
space station crew to command that

714
00:27:23,669 --> 00:27:22,080
vehicle into free drift and then they

715
00:27:25,350 --> 00:27:23,679
fly the robotic arm

716
00:27:27,750 --> 00:27:25,360
to capture it and that is a very

717
00:27:29,669 --> 00:27:27,760
critical task it's not like picking a

718
00:27:31,909 --> 00:27:29,679
a payload out of the space shuttle's

719
00:27:34,389 --> 00:27:31,919
payload bay where its location its

720
00:27:36,789 --> 00:27:34,399
velocity is fixed relative to the

721
00:27:39,190 --> 00:27:36,799
robotic arm that's capturing it in this

722
00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:39,200
case it is absolutely not fixed so we've

723
00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:40,960
got to make sure that it's it's a very

724
00:27:44,950 --> 00:27:42,880
well controlled very well trained very

725
00:27:47,029 --> 00:27:44,960
well coordinated and choreographed

726
00:27:49,669 --> 00:27:47,039
activity and you guys make it look easy

727
00:27:51,430 --> 00:27:49,679
but it's anything but

728
00:27:53,830 --> 00:27:51,440
the uh

729
00:27:55,430 --> 00:27:53,840
we talked about spacex atk of course has

730
00:27:57,190 --> 00:27:55,440
announced its configuration there are

731
00:27:59,590 --> 00:27:57,200
other companies involved in what

732
00:28:02,310 --> 00:27:59,600
basically is a new space race commercial

733
00:28:04,310 --> 00:28:02,320
race and uh you know i'm wondering uh

734
00:28:05,750 --> 00:28:04,320
about your personal plans because you've

735
00:28:07,830 --> 00:28:05,760
got a couple of shuttle missions and now

736
00:28:09,750 --> 00:28:07,840
a long duration space station mission

737
00:28:11,430 --> 00:28:09,760
under your belt are you anxious to be a

738
00:28:12,630 --> 00:28:11,440
part of this next wave

739
00:28:14,830 --> 00:28:12,640
i think it would be exciting to be a

740
00:28:18,710 --> 00:28:14,840
part of that i think this is a this is a

741
00:28:20,470 --> 00:28:18,720
very critical and very exciting part of

742
00:28:22,789 --> 00:28:20,480
our space program right now the

743
00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:22,799
transition from a government operated

744
00:28:25,830 --> 00:28:24,080
vehicle like the space shuttle to

745
00:28:27,510 --> 00:28:25,840
commercial vehicles

746
00:28:29,350 --> 00:28:27,520
holds a lot of promise and a lot of

747
00:28:30,789 --> 00:28:29,360
excitement for uh for where we go from

748
00:28:32,630 --> 00:28:30,799
here and it would be a neat to have a

749
00:28:34,789 --> 00:28:32,640
part of that right now my focus has been

750
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:34,799
spending time with family uh getting

751
00:28:39,350 --> 00:28:37,760
myself completely readapted to earth and

752
00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:39,360
if i can be involved in some way with

753
00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:40,720
those kinds of things i think that would

754
00:28:44,549 --> 00:28:43,120
be wonderful do you want to fly again

755
00:28:46,310 --> 00:28:44,559
i i think all of us who do this would

756
00:28:47,430 --> 00:28:46,320
love to fly again but uh but we've got a

757
00:28:49,830 --> 00:28:47,440
lot of other folks that have been

758
00:28:51,750 --> 00:28:49,840
working really hard for a long time uh

759
00:28:52,950 --> 00:28:51,760
that deserve the next shots and they

760
00:28:54,630 --> 00:28:52,960
they tell me that i get one more

761
00:28:55,350 --> 00:28:54,640
question here so you know you've been up

762
00:28:58,149 --> 00:28:55,360
for

763
00:29:00,470 --> 00:28:58,159
about six months or so a mission to mars

764
00:29:02,870 --> 00:29:00,480
or beyond would last a lot longer than

765
00:29:05,029 --> 00:29:02,880
that uh after your experience what do

766
00:29:07,990 --> 00:29:05,039
you see as the biggest challenges uh in

767
00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:08,000
terms of uh you know the human element

768
00:29:12,070 --> 00:29:09,840
well one of the biggest things that that

769
00:29:13,510 --> 00:29:12,080
the nasa science one of the one of the

770
00:29:15,269 --> 00:29:13,520
main questions we're trying to answer

771
00:29:17,510 --> 00:29:15,279
with the nasa sponsored science on space

772
00:29:19,269 --> 00:29:17,520
station is how to keep humans healthy

773
00:29:21,110 --> 00:29:19,279
safe and productive in space long enough

774
00:29:22,470 --> 00:29:21,120
to go to the moon long term long enough

775
00:29:23,350 --> 00:29:22,480
to go to asteroids long enough to go to

776
00:29:25,510 --> 00:29:23,360
mars

777
00:29:26,789 --> 00:29:25,520
and seeing the what it's like to do a

778
00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:26,799
two-week mission and seeing what it's

779
00:29:31,669 --> 00:29:29,360
like to do a six-ma six-month mission i

780
00:29:33,669 --> 00:29:31,679
think we're well on track to do that and

781
00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:33,679
uh mars mission i think would probably

782
00:29:38,549 --> 00:29:36,159
be beyond the order of uh two years uh

783
00:29:41,110 --> 00:29:38,559
that's a lot longer than six months but

784
00:29:43,110 --> 00:29:41,120
but six months is much longer than two

785
00:29:44,710 --> 00:29:43,120
weeks so i think we're on track seeing

786
00:29:46,549 --> 00:29:44,720
that you guys had no six days during

787
00:29:48,710 --> 00:29:46,559
your sick days during your increment uh

788
00:29:50,950 --> 00:29:48,720
you're off to a good start there

789
00:29:52,710 --> 00:29:50,960
dan thank you as always great to talk

790
00:33:28,870 --> 00:29:52,720
with you and welcome back peter great to

791
00:33:32,230 --> 00:33:30,710
it i don't believe it's that you're

792
00:33:34,630 --> 00:33:32,240
learned and it's

793
00:33:36,870 --> 00:33:34,640
and it's just it's a right that

794
00:33:38,549 --> 00:33:36,880
if you're gay you have a right to be

795
00:33:40,870 --> 00:33:38,559
you have a partner for life and i think

796
00:33:43,830 --> 00:33:40,880
she'd be able to make it legal

797
00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:43,840
i'm i've always been open for

798
00:33:48,310 --> 00:33:46,320
gay marriage it's it for me it's more

799
00:33:51,590 --> 00:33:48,320
about love and if that works for

800
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:51,600
somebody then i'm happy for them and

801
00:33:55,750 --> 00:33:54,000
supportive of

802
00:33:57,509 --> 00:33:55,760
future mayor anisse parker has in the

803
00:33:59,110 --> 00:33:57,519
past expressed her doubt that president

804
00:34:00,950 --> 00:33:59,120
barack obama would ever officially

805
00:34:02,789 --> 00:34:00,960
endorse gay marriage well not only did

806
00:34:04,230 --> 00:34:02,799
she tweet her happiness yesterday the

807
00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:04,240
president's decision

808
00:34:07,990 --> 00:34:06,320
he's recently returned from his command

809
00:34:09,909 --> 00:34:08,000
of the international space station

810
00:34:13,190 --> 00:34:09,919
during his third space flight astronaut

811
00:34:15,510 --> 00:34:13,200
dan burbank completed 165 days in space

812
00:34:17,349 --> 00:34:15,520
as a member of the expedition 29 and 30

813
00:34:20,069 --> 00:34:17,359
crews he's performed one spacewalk and

814
00:34:22,389 --> 00:34:20,079
spent 189 days in space astronaut dan

815
00:34:24,389 --> 00:34:22,399
berman joining us live now to talk about

816
00:34:25,909 --> 00:34:24,399
his experiences in space

817
00:34:28,149 --> 00:34:25,919
thank you so much for joining us this

818
00:34:29,669 --> 00:34:28,159
morning dan what was the most exciting

819
00:34:30,710 --> 00:34:29,679
thing about your time at the space

820
00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:30,720
station

821
00:34:33,990 --> 00:34:32,480
i there's a lot of exciting things a lot

822
00:34:35,270 --> 00:34:34,000
of interesting things about being there

823
00:34:36,389 --> 00:34:35,280
i think for me

824
00:34:40,389 --> 00:34:36,399
probably

825
00:34:42,869 --> 00:34:40,399
aspect of it was just to be up there and

826
00:34:44,149 --> 00:34:42,879
to be part of the the science that we do

827
00:34:46,069 --> 00:34:44,159
on space station right now that's what

828
00:34:47,990 --> 00:34:46,079
it was built for and to get a chance to

829
00:34:49,750 --> 00:34:48,000
do what we call some of the utilization

830
00:34:51,430 --> 00:34:49,760
to actually put station to work and be a

831
00:34:53,909 --> 00:34:51,440
part of that was probably one of the

832
00:34:56,629 --> 00:34:53,919
most exciting how do you deal with if it

833
00:34:58,310 --> 00:34:56,639
even comes up boredom and cabin fever do

834
00:35:00,470 --> 00:34:58,320
you ever have to deal with that

835
00:35:03,109 --> 00:35:00,480
um space station is pretty big lon it's

836
00:35:04,790 --> 00:35:03,119
uh it's uh it's plenty big for the six

837
00:35:07,349 --> 00:35:04,800
people that live and work on board space

838
00:35:09,109 --> 00:35:07,359
station most of the time so there was no

839
00:35:10,630 --> 00:35:09,119
problem with cabin fever at all in fact

840
00:35:12,870 --> 00:35:10,640
there'd be times sometimes when you

841
00:35:14,390 --> 00:35:12,880
would uh have a little bit of difficulty

842
00:35:16,870 --> 00:35:14,400
tracking down some one of your crewmates

843
00:35:19,109 --> 00:35:16,880
for example so it's a big expansive

844
00:35:21,349 --> 00:35:19,119
place with an awful lot going on boredom

845
00:35:23,430 --> 00:35:21,359
was never a factor at all i've heard

846
00:35:25,670 --> 00:35:23,440
that over and over again from astronauts

847
00:35:28,310 --> 00:35:25,680
so what did you miss most though about

848
00:35:29,829 --> 00:35:28,320
here on earth back home um hands down

849
00:35:31,589 --> 00:35:29,839
being with family

850
00:35:33,270 --> 00:35:31,599
it's not just the time that you spend on

851
00:35:34,470 --> 00:35:33,280
board space station the six months that

852
00:35:36,230 --> 00:35:34,480
you're there

853
00:35:37,829 --> 00:35:36,240
that that you miss the family you get to

854
00:35:39,910 --> 00:35:37,839
talk to them you get to see them once a

855
00:35:41,109 --> 00:35:39,920
week and talk to them most every day if

856
00:35:41,829 --> 00:35:41,119
you have the time

857
00:35:45,349 --> 00:35:41,839
but

858
00:35:47,190 --> 00:35:45,359
the two and a half years that you spend

859
00:35:49,589 --> 00:35:47,200
much of it on the road traveling working

860
00:35:50,630 --> 00:35:49,599
in in russia and europe and canada and

861
00:35:53,109 --> 00:35:50,640
japan

862
00:35:54,630 --> 00:35:53,119
or other partners for the space station

863
00:35:56,310 --> 00:35:54,640
you do spend an awful lot of time away

864
00:35:58,069 --> 00:35:56,320
from families so one of the one of the

865
00:36:00,069 --> 00:35:58,079
best things about coming back to planet

866
00:36:01,750 --> 00:36:00,079
earth was to be with your family again

867
00:36:03,829 --> 00:36:01,760
sure dan as you know a private company

868
00:36:05,349 --> 00:36:03,839
spacex preparing to do a test cargo

869
00:36:07,190 --> 00:36:05,359
mission to the station and it's even

870
00:36:08,790 --> 00:36:07,200
looking at a possible launch complex

871
00:36:10,550 --> 00:36:08,800
here in texas what do you think about

872
00:36:12,390 --> 00:36:10,560
the private space effort i think it's

873
00:36:14,150 --> 00:36:12,400
great i think the more ways we have to

874
00:36:16,790 --> 00:36:14,160
get to space the better it is for all of

875
00:36:19,030 --> 00:36:16,800
us as americans and as as human beings

876
00:36:21,430 --> 00:36:19,040
and i think it's probably the time is

877
00:36:23,270 --> 00:36:21,440
ripe right now where we can hand off the

878
00:36:24,950 --> 00:36:23,280
the low earth orbit piece that is

879
00:36:26,950 --> 00:36:24,960
getting from the surface of planet earth

880
00:36:28,710 --> 00:36:26,960
to low earth orbit we can hand that off

881
00:36:30,550 --> 00:36:28,720
to private companies and let them take

882
00:36:33,190 --> 00:36:30,560
over that and nasa can contract that

883
00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:33,200
service and then that'll leave open the

884
00:36:37,030 --> 00:36:35,119
ability for nasa to go from low earth

885
00:36:38,870 --> 00:36:37,040
orbit to deep space and that ultimately

886
00:36:41,910 --> 00:36:38,880
i think is our goal as a space

887
00:36:43,589 --> 00:36:41,920
spacefaring people and as americans

888
00:36:45,589 --> 00:36:43,599
well with funding the way it is from

889
00:36:47,270 --> 00:36:45,599
washington and uh in europe and just

890
00:36:48,790 --> 00:36:47,280
about everywhere these days

891
00:36:50,470 --> 00:36:48,800
space doesn't seem to be a priority

892
00:36:52,630 --> 00:36:50,480
anymore do you think that the real

893
00:36:54,230 --> 00:36:52,640
heyday of space is behind us or ahead of

894
00:36:56,390 --> 00:36:54,240
this no i think it's ahead of us you

895
00:36:58,150 --> 00:36:56,400
know we've got some very tough economic

896
00:37:00,470 --> 00:36:58,160
times right now and not just here in the

897
00:37:02,390 --> 00:37:00,480
united states but all over the world but

898
00:37:04,230 --> 00:37:02,400
still the money that we invest in space

899
00:37:06,150 --> 00:37:04,240
is actually a very very small part of

900
00:37:08,230 --> 00:37:06,160
our federal federal budget for example

901
00:37:10,150 --> 00:37:08,240
it's less than one half of of a one

902
00:37:11,829 --> 00:37:10,160
percent so we do not spend a lot of

903
00:37:14,069 --> 00:37:11,839
money and all the money we do spend in

904
00:37:16,230 --> 00:37:14,079
space goes directly into the kinds of

905
00:37:18,870 --> 00:37:16,240
jobs that really fuel our economy they

906
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:18,880
go into the high-tech jobs and all that

907
00:37:23,109 --> 00:37:21,040
money goes directly into our tax base as

908
00:37:25,510 --> 00:37:23,119
well so it's not money that's uh that's

909
00:37:27,750 --> 00:37:25,520
spent ill it's it's money that's spent

910
00:37:29,750 --> 00:37:27,760
very very well and and i think we get an

911
00:37:31,829 --> 00:37:29,760
awful lot of return from it and i am

912
00:37:33,670 --> 00:37:31,839
very hopeful on where we're going to go

913
00:37:36,150 --> 00:37:33,680
from this point on and i think we are

914
00:37:39,750 --> 00:37:36,160
now just at the verge of being able to

915
00:37:41,030 --> 00:37:39,760
open space up to uh to hundreds and even

916
00:37:42,470 --> 00:37:41,040
thousands of people in the coming

917
00:37:43,349 --> 00:37:42,480
decades that's what really what we need

918
00:37:44,710 --> 00:37:43,359
to do

919
00:37:45,990 --> 00:37:44,720
well dan i know all of us here in the

920
00:37:47,109 --> 00:37:46,000
studio wish we could have been up there

921
00:37:49,589 --> 00:37:47,119
with you

922
00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:49,599
dream to be in space thank you so much

923
00:37:52,710 --> 00:37:51,280
for taking a few moments this morning to

924
00:37:54,069 --> 00:37:52,720
talk to us to

925
00:37:55,750 --> 00:37:54,079
explain what happened to you while you

926
00:37:57,270 --> 00:37:55,760
were in space and we look forward to

927
00:37:59,190 --> 00:37:57,280
talking to you again it was great being

928
00:38:01,349 --> 00:37:59,200
with you today take care astronaut dan

929
00:38:03,109 --> 00:38:01,359
burbank and welcome home glad you're

930
00:38:04,550 --> 00:38:03,119
back let's check in now with our online

931
00:40:01,510 --> 00:38:04,560
editor cecile mitchell to see what's

932
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:24,790
so

933
00:40:27,589 --> 00:40:25,910
dan this is scott the producer from

934
00:40:29,910 --> 00:40:27,599
harper can you hear us okay sir i've got

935
00:40:31,510 --> 00:40:29,920
you loud and clear

936
00:40:33,510 --> 00:40:31,520
great can you hear um you're talking

937
00:40:35,510 --> 00:40:33,520
with uh with kayla she's one of our

938
00:40:36,829 --> 00:40:35,520
reporters can you hear her okay

939
00:40:38,950 --> 00:40:36,839
i haven't heard her

940
00:40:42,150 --> 00:40:38,960
yet okay

941
00:40:43,990 --> 00:40:42,160
hey daniel yes kayla i've got you now hi

942
00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:44,000
can you hear me yes just fine got you

943
00:40:46,790 --> 00:40:45,119
loud and clear

944
00:40:48,390 --> 00:40:46,800
all right good morning

945
00:41:04,230 --> 00:40:48,400
good morning good to be with you okay

946
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:12,630
okay

947
00:41:15,430 --> 00:41:13,750
all right daniel we know that you've

948
00:41:17,030 --> 00:41:15,440
spent the past few months in command of

949
00:41:19,030 --> 00:41:17,040
the international space station you've

950
00:41:20,630 --> 00:41:19,040
only been back for a few weeks now what

951
00:41:21,750 --> 00:41:20,640
are some of the first things that you do

952
00:41:23,030 --> 00:41:21,760
when you get back some of the things

953
00:41:25,589 --> 00:41:23,040
that you miss the most when you're gone

954
00:41:27,510 --> 00:41:25,599
for so long i think hands down kayla the

955
00:41:29,670 --> 00:41:27,520
thing you miss the most is being with

956
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:29,680
family and it's not just the six months

957
00:41:32,950 --> 00:41:31,040
that you've been on board space station

958
00:41:34,550 --> 00:41:32,960
it's the time leading up to the mission

959
00:41:36,870 --> 00:41:34,560
when you spent nearly two and a half

960
00:41:38,230 --> 00:41:36,880
years much of it on the road

961
00:41:40,309 --> 00:41:38,240
learning all you need to learn to

962
00:41:42,309 --> 00:41:40,319
operate an international space station

963
00:41:44,550 --> 00:41:42,319
but that that was hands down the thing i

964
00:41:46,630 --> 00:41:44,560
miss the most

965
00:41:47,910 --> 00:41:46,640
absolutely are there any foods or any tv

966
00:41:49,510 --> 00:41:47,920
shows that the second you get back

967
00:41:52,230 --> 00:41:49,520
you're just like i have to get cut off i

968
00:41:53,829 --> 00:41:52,240
have to go out and get this immediately

969
00:41:56,230 --> 00:41:53,839
we don't have a tv so there wasn't too

970
00:41:57,910 --> 00:41:56,240
many tv shows i missed i guess but

971
00:41:59,430 --> 00:41:57,920
but on the food front there's a lot of

972
00:42:01,349 --> 00:41:59,440
things the space station food's great

973
00:42:03,349 --> 00:42:01,359
first off there were there were some

974
00:42:05,670 --> 00:42:03,359
things i missed and it was nice to get a

975
00:42:07,829 --> 00:42:05,680
uh a steak we had a t-bone steak uh

976
00:42:10,309 --> 00:42:07,839
waiting for me in prestwick scotland on

977
00:42:12,710 --> 00:42:10,319
the flight back towards houston and uh

978
00:42:16,150 --> 00:42:12,720
we also had a meat lover's pizza

979
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:16,160
and on another stop in bangor maine

980
00:42:18,950 --> 00:42:17,920
that sounds very very understandable now

981
00:42:20,870 --> 00:42:18,960
we know that when you're up there you're

982
00:42:22,069 --> 00:42:20,880
up there for a couple months on end what

983
00:42:24,309 --> 00:42:22,079
are some of the ways that you feel your

984
00:42:25,589 --> 00:42:24,319
time when you're gone so far away for so

985
00:42:27,270 --> 00:42:25,599
long

986
00:42:29,349 --> 00:42:27,280
you don't have to look very hard to find

987
00:42:31,510 --> 00:42:29,359
ways to fill your time space stations

988
00:42:33,270 --> 00:42:31,520
it's a magical place it's a very busy

989
00:42:35,829 --> 00:42:33,280
place we have six people up there space

990
00:42:38,230 --> 00:42:35,839
station is nearly a million pounds worth

991
00:42:39,270 --> 00:42:38,240
of hardware and it's expansive it's huge

992
00:42:40,950 --> 00:42:39,280
we did

993
00:42:42,790 --> 00:42:40,960
on the order of 200 scientific

994
00:42:43,670 --> 00:42:42,800
investigations during our six months up

995
00:42:46,870 --> 00:42:43,680
there

996
00:42:48,630 --> 00:42:46,880
beyond the science that is keeping the

997
00:42:51,990 --> 00:42:48,640
hardware operating and safe and

998
00:42:53,510 --> 00:42:52,000
functional in this the most hazardous

999
00:42:54,470 --> 00:42:53,520
environment that humans have tried to

1000
00:42:57,109 --> 00:42:54,480
live in

1001
00:42:59,190 --> 00:42:57,119
low earth orbit for example so there's

1002
00:43:02,790 --> 00:42:59,200
there's no shortage of things to do

1003
00:43:04,710 --> 00:43:02,800
um if you ever got remotely uh aboard

1004
00:43:06,069 --> 00:43:04,720
and that really didn't happen to us but

1005
00:43:07,589 --> 00:43:06,079
but spending a little bit of time

1006
00:43:09,910 --> 00:43:07,599
looking out the window at this

1007
00:43:13,030 --> 00:43:09,920
unbelievable planet from the perspective

1008
00:43:15,589 --> 00:43:13,040
of 400 kilometers above is is something

1009
00:43:17,030 --> 00:43:15,599
you never got tired of

1010
00:43:18,950 --> 00:43:17,040
yeah i can imagine that's a pretty uh

1011
00:43:20,790 --> 00:43:18,960
unique experience one thing i did notice

1012
00:43:23,030 --> 00:43:20,800
though i saw a picture of you and you

1013
00:43:24,630 --> 00:43:23,040
had a guitar up in space does being in

1014
00:43:26,630 --> 00:43:24,640
the zero gravity effect you're playing

1015
00:43:28,550 --> 00:43:26,640
at all for better for worse

1016
00:43:29,670 --> 00:43:28,560
well i i guess

1017
00:43:31,270 --> 00:43:29,680
there wasn't a lot of time to play

1018
00:43:32,950 --> 00:43:31,280
guitar but when i was able to do that

1019
00:43:34,950 --> 00:43:32,960
the things that are different here on

1020
00:43:36,309 --> 00:43:34,960
planet earth to to hold a guitar

1021
00:43:38,309 --> 00:43:36,319
typically you'd have a strap that went

1022
00:43:39,750 --> 00:43:38,319
over your shoulder to suspend it you

1023
00:43:41,829 --> 00:43:39,760
don't need anything like that in space

1024
00:43:43,510 --> 00:43:41,839
so it can just float in front of you uh

1025
00:43:45,829 --> 00:43:43,520
in fact you don't need to stand anywhere

1026
00:43:47,589 --> 00:43:45,839
you can just float and do slow rolls

1027
00:43:48,870 --> 00:43:47,599
essentially down the modules as you're

1028
00:43:50,390 --> 00:43:48,880
as you're playing

1029
00:43:52,390 --> 00:43:50,400
one of the greatest places to play

1030
00:43:54,870 --> 00:43:52,400
guitar was in the cupola we've got a

1031
00:43:57,190 --> 00:43:54,880
basically a 360 degree window on the

1032
00:43:59,430 --> 00:43:57,200
world you can see a couple of thousand

1033
00:44:00,950 --> 00:43:59,440
thousand miles in all directions see you

1034
00:44:03,190 --> 00:44:00,960
know horizon to horizon a whole

1035
00:44:04,950 --> 00:44:03,200
continent beneath you and it's also a

1036
00:44:08,150 --> 00:44:04,960
pretty has pretty good acoustics there

1037
00:44:10,069 --> 00:44:08,160
so being in the cupola uh maybe after

1038
00:44:11,670 --> 00:44:10,079
you finished your work day

1039
00:44:14,390 --> 00:44:11,680
nine o'clock or so in the evening and

1040
00:44:16,550 --> 00:44:14,400
playing guitar up there was uh was was

1041
00:44:18,390 --> 00:44:16,560
pretty neat

1042
00:44:20,230 --> 00:44:18,400
good to know now you've mentioned having

1043
00:44:21,910 --> 00:44:20,240
your windows out on the world honestly

1044
00:44:23,270 --> 00:44:21,920
do you ever have any moments in all your

1045
00:44:24,630 --> 00:44:23,280
years you've been doing this you've ever

1046
00:44:26,069 --> 00:44:24,640
kind of gone a little bit nervous a

1047
00:44:27,910 --> 00:44:26,079
little bit scared just thought what am i

1048
00:44:29,910 --> 00:44:27,920
doing up here

1049
00:44:33,270 --> 00:44:29,920
i i haven't i i think there are times

1050
00:44:34,950 --> 00:44:33,280
perhaps in a space walk where it comes

1051
00:44:37,349 --> 00:44:34,960
home to you that you're in a very very

1052
00:44:38,950 --> 00:44:37,359
different place on space station it's a

1053
00:44:40,630 --> 00:44:38,960
you know we live and work in essentially

1054
00:44:43,030 --> 00:44:40,640
a shirt sleeve environment now we all

1055
00:44:45,270 --> 00:44:43,040
know that uh just a few millimeters

1056
00:44:47,270 --> 00:44:45,280
worth of uh of space station pressurized

1057
00:44:48,309 --> 00:44:47,280
hull separates us from the vacuum of

1058
00:44:52,550 --> 00:44:48,319
space

1059
00:44:54,950 --> 00:44:52,560
tens of thousands of incredibly smart

1060
00:44:56,870 --> 00:44:54,960
engineers and technicians and scientists

1061
00:44:59,589 --> 00:44:56,880
all over the world and it has an awful

1062
00:45:01,510 --> 00:44:59,599
lot of redundancy and it's very easy to

1063
00:45:04,069 --> 00:45:01,520
start to feel very much like you're at

1064
00:45:06,230 --> 00:45:04,079
home there and we all know that it's

1065
00:45:08,870 --> 00:45:06,240
it's not exactly that and it's a very

1066
00:45:10,150 --> 00:45:08,880
difficult place to operate live and work

1067
00:45:11,910 --> 00:45:10,160
but we have

1068
00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:11,920
hundreds of people that watch over space

1069
00:45:17,349 --> 00:45:15,280
station systems 24 7 365 and control

1070
00:45:18,870 --> 00:45:17,359
centers all over the world and they're

1071
00:45:20,710 --> 00:45:18,880
the ones that really do a lot of the

1072
00:45:22,630 --> 00:45:20,720
flying and a lot of the operating of the

1073
00:45:24,710 --> 00:45:22,640
space station systems and it's kind of

1074
00:45:25,910 --> 00:45:24,720
comforting

1075
00:45:27,349 --> 00:45:25,920
all right well you're a much braver

1076
00:45:28,870 --> 00:45:27,359
person than myself we thank you for your

1077
00:46:08,870 --> 00:45:28,880
time today thank you it's good to be

1078
00:46:12,470 --> 00:46:10,710
good morning dan this is robert perlman

1079
00:46:13,910 --> 00:46:12,480
with collectspace.com welcome back to

1080
00:46:15,750 --> 00:46:13,920
earth hey good morning robert it's good

1081
00:46:17,670 --> 00:46:15,760
to be with you today thank you

1082
00:46:19,430 --> 00:46:17,680
so i i've heard in some of the earlier

1083
00:46:21,589 --> 00:46:19,440
interviews today about you describing

1084
00:46:23,910 --> 00:46:21,599
your adjustment back to earth i was

1085
00:46:26,309 --> 00:46:23,920
wondering having just come back from my

1086
00:46:28,630 --> 00:46:26,319
own month-long trek i realized that i

1087
00:46:30,069 --> 00:46:28,640
had missed some of the news that

1088
00:46:31,750 --> 00:46:30,079
happened around because i wasn't really

1089
00:46:33,030 --> 00:46:31,760
paying attention to it did you

1090
00:46:34,390 --> 00:46:33,040
experience the same thing was there

1091
00:46:36,710 --> 00:46:34,400
something that happened here on earth

1092
00:46:38,069 --> 00:46:36,720
that you went oh that happened um when

1093
00:46:40,309 --> 00:46:38,079
you got back

1094
00:46:42,870 --> 00:46:40,319
um it's kind of hard to i it's kind of

1095
00:46:45,430 --> 00:46:42,880
hard to say to pick exact events and so

1096
00:46:47,270 --> 00:46:45,440
forth we we do get sent up uh from the

1097
00:46:48,950 --> 00:46:47,280
ground from houston and uh and other

1098
00:46:51,430 --> 00:46:48,960
control centers the news so we're able

1099
00:46:53,670 --> 00:46:51,440
to to catch up on the daily news if we

1100
00:46:56,309 --> 00:46:53,680
have time at the end of the day and it's

1101
00:46:58,550 --> 00:46:56,319
print news and actually some of the news

1102
00:46:59,990 --> 00:46:58,560
programs as well you felt like you were

1103
00:47:02,150 --> 00:47:00,000
pretty much in touch and you were able

1104
00:47:04,309 --> 00:47:02,160
to talk to your family so there wasn't

1105
00:47:05,829 --> 00:47:04,319
anything major that that i think took

1106
00:47:08,309 --> 00:47:05,839
place that we didn't generally know

1107
00:47:11,030 --> 00:47:08,319
about within about 12 hours

1108
00:47:12,630 --> 00:47:11,040
okay so going back to the beginning of

1109
00:47:15,829 --> 00:47:12,640
your arrival on station you had an

1110
00:47:18,150 --> 00:47:15,839
expedited handover um because of i

1111
00:47:18,950 --> 00:47:18,160
believe the the progress loss um back

1112
00:47:21,030 --> 00:47:18,960
then

1113
00:47:23,109 --> 00:47:21,040
um and the the ripples through the

1114
00:47:25,510 --> 00:47:23,119
schedule um

1115
00:47:27,430 --> 00:47:25,520
how did that handover go and would you

1116
00:47:29,589 --> 00:47:27,440
recommend that type of expedited

1117
00:47:31,910 --> 00:47:29,599
schedule to a future crew

1118
00:47:34,150 --> 00:47:31,920
yeah it was kind of a whirlwind so when

1119
00:47:35,990 --> 00:47:34,160
we when we docked when anton anatoly and

1120
00:47:38,069 --> 00:47:36,000
i docked a space station

1121
00:47:40,630 --> 00:47:38,079
we had basically four days worth of

1122
00:47:44,150 --> 00:47:40,640
handover you know physical handover uh

1123
00:47:47,109 --> 00:47:44,160
where uh the existing crew mike fossum

1124
00:47:48,790 --> 00:47:47,119
sergey volkov and satoshi furukawa were

1125
00:47:50,950 --> 00:47:48,800
able to show us the ropes and teach us

1126
00:47:52,630 --> 00:47:50,960
how to fly space station

1127
00:47:54,309 --> 00:47:52,640
we typically have anywhere from two

1128
00:47:57,270 --> 00:47:54,319
months to four months on a normal

1129
00:47:59,349 --> 00:47:57,280
handover so we try to overlap the crews

1130
00:48:00,870 --> 00:47:59,359
and give them as much time as possible

1131
00:48:02,549 --> 00:48:00,880
the beauty of the way this thing worked

1132
00:48:04,150 --> 00:48:02,559
out though is that we knew

1133
00:48:04,950 --> 00:48:04,160
well in advance that we would have a

1134
00:48:10,150 --> 00:48:04,960
very

1135
00:48:12,790 --> 00:48:10,160
at all so what we did is mike and

1136
00:48:14,309 --> 00:48:12,800
satoshi and sergey sent us down videos

1137
00:48:16,710 --> 00:48:14,319
of all the various things they would do

1138
00:48:19,190 --> 00:48:16,720
on a daily basis so we had the luxury

1139
00:48:22,069 --> 00:48:19,200
over a couple of months to to watch

1140
00:48:23,750 --> 00:48:22,079
videos multiple times and in a way

1141
00:48:25,109 --> 00:48:23,760
kind of in hindsight looking back on it

1142
00:48:26,549 --> 00:48:25,119
it might have been the best way to do

1143
00:48:28,710 --> 00:48:26,559
the handovers we essentially did a

1144
00:48:30,630 --> 00:48:28,720
virtual handover and it wasn't the kind

1145
00:48:32,309 --> 00:48:30,640
of thing where somebody would micro for

1146
00:48:34,790 --> 00:48:32,319
example would show me how to do do

1147
00:48:36,309 --> 00:48:34,800
something one time over the course of uh

1148
00:48:37,990 --> 00:48:36,319
of a couple of months that we had

1149
00:48:39,990 --> 00:48:38,000
together it was something that i could

1150
00:48:41,670 --> 00:48:40,000
watch as many times as i liked until i

1151
00:48:43,430 --> 00:48:41,680
understood it and then i when i saw him

1152
00:48:45,109 --> 00:48:43,440
face to face you know we could talk

1153
00:48:46,790 --> 00:48:45,119
about the specifics questions i might

1154
00:48:48,630 --> 00:48:46,800
have had so

1155
00:48:50,710 --> 00:48:48,640
the handover worked out actually very

1156
00:48:52,710 --> 00:48:50,720
very well

1157
00:48:54,790 --> 00:48:52,720
your expedition if i'm not mistaken was

1158
00:48:56,870 --> 00:48:54,800
the first to reach an average of 35

1159
00:49:00,069 --> 00:48:56,880
hours of utilization time

1160
00:49:03,109 --> 00:49:00,079
um and i was wondering if you can qual

1161
00:49:05,430 --> 00:49:03,119
quantify or or describe that in some way

1162
00:49:07,510 --> 00:49:05,440
that people here on earth could relate

1163
00:49:09,270 --> 00:49:07,520
how busy were you in terms of doing

1164
00:49:10,790 --> 00:49:09,280
science versus doing assembly and

1165
00:49:12,630 --> 00:49:10,800
maintenance well not assembly but

1166
00:49:14,630 --> 00:49:12,640
maintenance activities on station you

1167
00:49:16,790 --> 00:49:14,640
bet well space station we're operating

1168
00:49:18,630 --> 00:49:16,800
on a frontier so it's a lot like

1169
00:49:20,470 --> 00:49:18,640
operating a science station down in

1170
00:49:22,150 --> 00:49:20,480
antarctica for example

1171
00:49:24,390 --> 00:49:22,160
a lot of the things that you do on a

1172
00:49:26,549 --> 00:49:24,400
daily basis is keeping the systems of

1173
00:49:29,270 --> 00:49:26,559
space station for example operating

1174
00:49:31,190 --> 00:49:29,280
safely and and doing it in such a way

1175
00:49:33,829 --> 00:49:31,200
doing repairs to systems if they need it

1176
00:49:35,430 --> 00:49:33,839
in such a way that they will last a long

1177
00:49:38,230 --> 00:49:35,440
time if we were if we had an issue on

1178
00:49:39,829 --> 00:49:38,240
the space shuttle for example um we the

1179
00:49:41,910 --> 00:49:39,839
crew on board a space shuttle all they

1180
00:49:43,589 --> 00:49:41,920
have to do is essentially safe a system

1181
00:49:45,430 --> 00:49:43,599
and we all know that within two weeks

1182
00:49:47,510 --> 00:49:45,440
that space shuttle is going to be in the

1183
00:49:49,349 --> 00:49:47,520
care of people who have dedicated their

1184
00:49:51,270 --> 00:49:49,359
lives and are and are among the best in

1185
00:49:53,030 --> 00:49:51,280
the world at taking care of that vehicle

1186
00:49:54,870 --> 00:49:53,040
and they'll make it like new before it

1187
00:49:56,390 --> 00:49:54,880
flies again space station it's a

1188
00:49:58,150 --> 00:49:56,400
different animal so a lot of the things

1189
00:50:00,230 --> 00:49:58,160
that you do up there if you have to do

1190
00:50:02,470 --> 00:50:00,240
repair have to be commensurate with how

1191
00:50:05,190 --> 00:50:02,480
people who have spent their entire lives

1192
00:50:06,790 --> 00:50:05,200
working on hardware would do things

1193
00:50:08,390 --> 00:50:06,800
most of our activity on space station

1194
00:50:10,470 --> 00:50:08,400
was the utilization part of it you

1195
00:50:11,910 --> 00:50:10,480
mentioned 35 hours and i and i would

1196
00:50:13,750 --> 00:50:11,920
caution you a little bit because that's

1197
00:50:15,829 --> 00:50:13,760
really not the best way to think of it

1198
00:50:18,549 --> 00:50:15,839
we arbitrarily

1199
00:50:21,109 --> 00:50:18,559
it's an artifact of how we organize

1200
00:50:23,030 --> 00:50:21,119
the space station from from a budgetary

1201
00:50:24,710 --> 00:50:23,040
standpoint here on the ground the the

1202
00:50:26,390 --> 00:50:24,720
thing that space station was was

1203
00:50:28,069 --> 00:50:26,400
designed to do is to do

1204
00:50:29,990 --> 00:50:28,079
answer the kind of scientific questions

1205
00:50:31,990 --> 00:50:30,000
that allow us to leave low earth orbit

1206
00:50:34,470 --> 00:50:32,000
that'll will answer questions that are

1207
00:50:36,549 --> 00:50:34,480
of a basic nature that allow us to

1208
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:36,559
develop pharmaceuticals that will help

1209
00:50:41,430 --> 00:50:38,880
you know life on earth for example

1210
00:50:43,190 --> 00:50:41,440
there are opera there are scientific

1211
00:50:44,630 --> 00:50:43,200
investigations for example on board

1212
00:50:46,950 --> 00:50:44,640
space station while we were there that

1213
00:50:49,109 --> 00:50:46,960
were on that numbered almost 200 and

1214
00:50:50,470 --> 00:50:49,119
these were experiments that we did and

1215
00:50:53,750 --> 00:50:50,480
there were also experiments that are

1216
00:50:55,430 --> 00:50:53,760
operated by by hundreds and thousands of

1217
00:50:58,390 --> 00:50:55,440
scientists and researchers all around

1218
00:50:59,750 --> 00:50:58,400
the world 24 7. a lot of the science on

1219
00:51:01,829 --> 00:50:59,760
station is done

1220
00:51:03,510 --> 00:51:01,839
essentially remotely and we the crew on

1221
00:51:04,710 --> 00:51:03,520
board station will be the lab

1222
00:51:07,109 --> 00:51:04,720
technicians that take care of the

1223
00:51:08,630 --> 00:51:07,119
hardware that that participate in some

1224
00:51:10,309 --> 00:51:08,640
of the research but much of it is done

1225
00:51:11,750 --> 00:51:10,319
on the ground

1226
00:51:13,270 --> 00:51:11,760
the work that you do on station

1227
00:51:15,750 --> 00:51:13,280
essentially keeping keeping it

1228
00:51:17,829 --> 00:51:15,760
functioning really is is a much greater

1229
00:51:19,430 --> 00:51:17,839
amount than the number you mentioned we

1230
00:51:20,549 --> 00:51:19,440
also do a lot of research on station

1231
00:51:21,990 --> 00:51:20,559
that really

1232
00:51:24,230 --> 00:51:22,000
does not fall in the category of what

1233
00:51:26,950 --> 00:51:24,240
i'd call scientific research but it's

1234
00:51:28,870 --> 00:51:26,960
technological development research so

1235
00:51:30,309 --> 00:51:28,880
the the environmental control system

1236
00:51:32,950 --> 00:51:30,319
that we have on space station that we

1237
00:51:35,030 --> 00:51:32,960
very much depend on now allows us to

1238
00:51:37,190 --> 00:51:35,040
very much close the environmental

1239
00:51:39,030 --> 00:51:37,200
control life support loop we want to

1240
00:51:41,910 --> 00:51:39,040
reclaim as much of the moisture for

1241
00:51:44,069 --> 00:51:41,920
example the water that humans produce

1242
00:51:45,270 --> 00:51:44,079
and in just the course of living and we

1243
00:51:48,230 --> 00:51:45,280
want to feed that back into the

1244
00:51:51,190 --> 00:51:48,240
environmental control loop so we recover

1245
00:51:52,870 --> 00:51:51,200
water from urine we recover water from

1246
00:51:55,910 --> 00:51:52,880
from sweat from

1247
00:51:58,549 --> 00:51:55,920
what we exhale and all that is purified

1248
00:52:00,309 --> 00:51:58,559
ultra purified i can assure you and in a

1249
00:52:02,309 --> 00:52:00,319
very sophisticated system that gives us

1250
00:52:04,870 --> 00:52:02,319
back that water and also gives us the

1251
00:52:06,470 --> 00:52:04,880
ability to generate oxygen so we reclaim

1252
00:52:08,069 --> 00:52:06,480
about two-thirds of the water that

1253
00:52:10,150 --> 00:52:08,079
otherwise would be lost

1254
00:52:12,470 --> 00:52:10,160
that technology actually has a lot of

1255
00:52:14,870 --> 00:52:12,480
relevance here on planet earth and that

1256
00:52:16,630 --> 00:52:14,880
technology has been used in disaster

1257
00:52:19,270 --> 00:52:16,640
zones in third world countries for

1258
00:52:20,950 --> 00:52:19,280
example but it also allows us to be much

1259
00:52:22,950 --> 00:52:20,960
wiser about how we take care of our

1260
00:52:25,270 --> 00:52:22,960
resources on planet earth and there are

1261
00:52:27,430 --> 00:52:25,280
many other examples on space station and

1262
00:52:29,829 --> 00:52:27,440
those go far beyond the 35 hours that

1263
00:52:31,829 --> 00:52:29,839
you've mentioned

1264
00:52:34,150 --> 00:52:31,839
well in terms of returning some of that

1265
00:52:35,829 --> 00:52:34,160
results back to earth spacex is getting

1266
00:52:36,710 --> 00:52:35,839
ready to launch their

1267
00:52:38,549 --> 00:52:36,720
uh

1268
00:52:40,230 --> 00:52:38,559
their first dragon capsule to the

1269
00:52:41,589 --> 00:52:40,240
international space station something

1270
00:52:44,470 --> 00:52:41,599
that would have happened maybe on your

1271
00:52:47,109 --> 00:52:44,480
stay had it played out differently

1272
00:52:48,230 --> 00:52:47,119
but if i understand correctly they're

1273
00:52:50,150 --> 00:52:48,240
they're going to be one of the first

1274
00:52:52,150 --> 00:52:50,160
down mass opportunities or only big down

1275
00:52:54,470 --> 00:52:52,160
mass opportunities after the end of

1276
00:52:56,150 --> 00:52:54,480
shuttle and on their list of stuff

1277
00:52:58,230 --> 00:52:56,160
they're bringing back crew clothing and

1278
00:53:00,630 --> 00:52:58,240
crew choice items and so i'm wondering

1279
00:53:03,109 --> 00:53:00,640
if that includes your items and does

1280
00:53:06,150 --> 00:53:03,119
that add an additional personal stake to

1281
00:53:08,390 --> 00:53:06,160
the success of this mission well

1282
00:53:10,150 --> 00:53:08,400
the the importance of of of uh having

1283
00:53:12,790 --> 00:53:10,160
spacex and

1284
00:53:14,630 --> 00:53:12,800
and their dragon vehicle and the the

1285
00:53:16,390 --> 00:53:14,640
cygnus vehicle that's uh that's going to

1286
00:53:18,150 --> 00:53:16,400
be developed and flown by orbital

1287
00:53:20,710 --> 00:53:18,160
science is absolutely critical to

1288
00:53:22,790 --> 00:53:20,720
station we need to have a logistics

1289
00:53:24,470 --> 00:53:22,800
lifeline that brings up supplies to

1290
00:53:26,630 --> 00:53:24,480
station but we also depend an awful lot

1291
00:53:28,470 --> 00:53:26,640
in having the capability of returning

1292
00:53:30,230 --> 00:53:28,480
samples back to earth for example a lot

1293
00:53:32,630 --> 00:53:30,240
of the biological samples that are the

1294
00:53:34,069 --> 00:53:32,640
result of nasa experiments that answer

1295
00:53:35,670 --> 00:53:34,079
the question of how to keep humans safe

1296
00:53:37,510 --> 00:53:35,680
and productive and healthy and healthy

1297
00:53:39,270 --> 00:53:37,520
in space for a long period of time

1298
00:53:41,030 --> 00:53:39,280
really require getting those samples

1299
00:53:43,910 --> 00:53:41,040
back to planet earth where we can study

1300
00:53:45,670 --> 00:53:43,920
them so the only capability beyond the

1301
00:53:47,829 --> 00:53:45,680
small amount of

1302
00:53:49,430 --> 00:53:47,839
volume that we can return with us on a

1303
00:53:50,950 --> 00:53:49,440
soyuz is

1304
00:53:53,910 --> 00:53:50,960
is now going to be afforded by the

1305
00:53:56,470 --> 00:53:53,920
spacex dragon vehicle and down down the

1306
00:53:58,230 --> 00:53:56,480
road we hope to have more capability but

1307
00:53:59,910 --> 00:53:58,240
but it's actually a critical component

1308
00:54:01,750 --> 00:53:59,920
of getting some down mass of being able

1309
00:54:03,349 --> 00:54:01,760
to return things from space

1310
00:54:05,030 --> 00:54:03,359
we do have a small amount that we're

1311
00:54:07,190 --> 00:54:05,040
able to bring back that are things like

1312
00:54:09,430 --> 00:54:07,200
crew clothing or or journals that we

1313
00:54:12,069 --> 00:54:09,440
might have kept onboard space station or

1314
00:54:14,630 --> 00:54:12,079
a few mementos and things like that

1315
00:54:16,950 --> 00:54:14,640
but the real the real importance of a

1316
00:54:19,270 --> 00:54:16,960
vehicle like like spacex and its down

1317
00:54:21,750 --> 00:54:19,280
mass capability is for the science and

1318
00:54:23,670 --> 00:54:21,760
operations of station so it's it's

1319
00:54:25,349 --> 00:54:23,680
really important for all of us and we

1320
00:54:27,190 --> 00:54:25,359
hope very much that they're they're

1321
00:54:29,109 --> 00:54:27,200
successful in this

1322
00:54:30,710 --> 00:54:29,119
well thank you for your time today and

1323
00:54:59,430 --> 00:54:30,720
welcome back to earth again robert thank