Food For Thought; #145; "The Spirit of Exploration" Medallion Presentation Remarks on Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission & PJC Medallion Presentation - Capt. Alan Poindexter, USN

ms williams really but for you as unique and as outstanding as captain alan poindexter after getting his associate's degree at bgc in nineteen eighty three for graduate from georgia institute of technology with the highest honors in nineteen eighty six it's a principal air station for flight training afterwards he has a lot more than the thirty five hundred hours in more than thirty aircraft types and he has made over four hundred and fifty per aircraft carrier landings that correct four hundred and fifty while navy captain and pj see along as alan poindexter is here today to hear some of the stories and has its adventures as pilot of the atlantis space so tiny a space show doing

now is training but actual flight of drama february two thousand a nasa space missions atlantis delivered the european space station agencies two billion dollars space lion columbus to the international space station a thirteen day mission was hailed as nearly perfect and being the fiftieth anniversary of the nation's space program in celebration of the jaycees sixtieth anniversary captain poindexter has returned a specially meant it pj's ebola bag into the college that he carried on his five point three million dollar billion space journey the pga seen medallion then he carried space will serve as the lasting symbol of what the jaycees students are capable of doing that's because of a solid

academic instruction of our faculty and staff here at this institution captain poindexter means a lot to the jc junior college as well as this community we're very fortunate and blessed to have him with us today and i want to welcome at this time they previously along as a member of this family kept him going back as beakman beakman it is my distinct pleasure to be here today and i sent letters thanking and now will make that mean i visited a possible i'm a real special thank you it's always a

pleasure to be back in pensacola as a lawyer i've not from here i really do consider this my hometown i'd like to say thanks also to my extended family my wife lisa who is political was not able to make it here today but her family is here my inlaws rahman terrify for my brother maron and aunt uncle richard what if i ever took the pfeifer gwen thanks to appreciate it i was so i was contemplating that what i was going to tell you today and i am sure your video about the michele as the road we want to see violent talk a few minutes about the school year college and what it means what it meant to me and what it means to me when i came to cause as a young man after high school i was a cut of undetermined about well audio of my life and i knew that i needed education was important

in order to further my education after high school and i enrolled in the us go to your college with no real lofty goals with no real the set of things about what accomplished that i knew that it was important to my education and i knew that because you did a good start there and so i came here and i had an absolutely wonderful experience i met some lifelong friends i'm at my wife's and i just had a great time and quality of the education here is just absolutely support the preparation that that that instructors give you ended classes here and the programs there are actually second time around you know i went after it as closure college i went off to have that four years ago a georgia tech and i felt very very very well prepared i even more so than that than most distance i think that i tended to work

fewer courses with at georgia tech the science and the humanities and the mathematics that i took your ptc other courses were just have to a second time on an end small staff to student ratio really really helps a young person get prepared so i know there's folks out there who do think that we're not ready for a four year school year a hungry for classes of three four hundred people in this freshman class is the city's the place to go it's a it's a wonderful place and our great preparation for our for anything in life after after graduating year to go to georgia tech and i got my degree in aerospace engineering i was unable or dc at first that and i knew that i wanted a flier points and so i was lucky enough to get picked up to do that i get back to school and start my flight training in nineteen eighty six and since then we've been

back and forth that's for many many times ever station here but we've always come back to visit and vacation here and i really did assert my hometown so it's actually a pleasure to be back and i'm very very happy that i could come today it really a little bit about west he has won twenty two after i've my service a navy i was lucky enough to get accepted to nasa to become after a nineteen ninety eight and very lucky to be assigned to fly this mission as ts one twenty two aboard special planets and we're stuck with a podium up with my micro continue to work and his lab work on a publicly the thumbs up in the world would do it again as this one point you about aboard atlantis our primary flight mission was to carry the european space agency's columbus model toward an attached to the international space

station congress weighed about thirty thousand pounds and took up most the payload bay inside atlanta's it was the european space agency's in is the european space agency's prime contribution to the space station okay and don't let my work that they're many are still great clip i don't like billions it is the european space agency's tight contribution to the international space station is a commerce model and that they've been working on that since the mid nineties and so with no real honor to be assigned to a flight that was given the responsibility of making sure that this model got a space station safely and was attached safely and as with a good use so like it is today and with that laboratory it gives europe and nasa oh wonderful private laboratory in space that we can study all kinds of

things from physical experiments to which earle sciences medical experiments and look at the effects of long duration space flight on the human body as you know we are going to try to go back to the moon and potentially on the mars president bush's vision for space exploration describes a program that put as back on the moon by twenty twenty and they're not this time not for one or two weeks days but for a very very long durations and one of the things we need to figure out and in order to do that for long period time is the effect of the space environment on the human body that's one of the big push with the space station is to study the effects of long duration space flight on human and see what has a lot of changes take place and how we can counteract those with that would differ countermeasures so those are kind of the reasons why columbus is important and wide support for us to do that how did that model on orbit

i think our with a few more minutes of preparation role in order by one talk about some secondary objectives of this just one twenty two bout well this was a primary mission objective but we had done a number of different sectors as well one of which was to exchange crew members mr dan tani another at nasa after i'd been no spaces the performance of their time and we're taking up his replacement me out a french ass robin and the general lay out my heart's layla had been trying for some time to be a specific remember it was assigned our flight and our job was to take up leo and bring back dan and with that we were able to go from explicit sixteen day expedition seventeen crew members are out or another objective was to perform three space walks and most the space walks were in conjunction with the columbus model is preparation and as activation of the way off that is

samina from the space station and so you may know we want the first models the space station back in nineteen ninety eight december and it was the first the us was for this space station so that our promise ten years and we do periodic maintenance so one of things we had to do a stunt was accomplish a space walk to do some maintenance remember robotic activities and contests with our with our mission and so that was another major mission objective so i think that the best thing to do now is probably rolled a video that will prompt some questions and we can talk more about that so as some of you may know use art as a lot of it was back and in december of two thousand and seven and that students here and staff from that coursera ray would go down for that and that unfortunately out that launched an opportunity was scrubbed it isn't technical difficulties that we saw him in february of two thousand at this year we went back

down for a mission that for a launch and out you're seeing now is a cbo of us in not india operations checkout facility or recorders we get an orange pressure suits and we do we pressure checked these out of the other says pardo going up a lot it's your crew members heroes dr stanley love an astronomer jill i lay our hearts for the french air force are longer a crew member that's me and the commander of the flight captain steve frick mr leland melvin who i was an ex nfl football player was on the yacht up on the crew and us this is about three hours prior lot and gets a lot to that it was trapped in a vehicle commander stress in the last seat in the pilot i got threatened rights a year when they are back for about three hours for a lot mr rex waller correct while i'm trapped in the ice

center seat here is our flight engineer and next to him was mr leland melvin down in the deck with three other crew members will our hearts hans schlegel our german astronaut and not just a love there in the center seat oh it's a thrill of iraq won't let go let's listen to some of its effects of the year so what a satellite outside it was i like inside the us has accepted car lots the engines like huey it's been nice the role creativity as they stage of the solid rocket boosters have burned for about

two minutes about it about fifty thousand eighty five super psyched here it's a shockwave pass through the un well i saw a lot of lawyers and you see a glass and they fly away from the boosters about mark fifteen fifteen times the sound of these ghostly role as a position just last week at the satellites and then about eight minutes the main just shut down and were at normal speed twenty five thousand speakers i can't separate from our external fuel tank ypres up in the answers are creators of the indian ocean we stay in orbit the earth below you see around the air show is actually a hot plasma gases were still the upper reaches of the atmosphere climbing into orbit right after they should cut off to recruit members gather seats right away and get the video camera large still camera and the pictures of the external tank as it falls away and this was to survey free dailies have

ever heard because you know the last little bit of a hydrogen oxygen the fuel and oxidizer thinking of the tank is as it departs the payload bay doors are open every turn the space shuttle and they were orbiting airspace vehicles this point and we get a robotic arm out and robotic arm out its testers trouble with these are quite a melee for inspection and we go over we grapple this fifty foot inspection room which has a very sensitive instrumentation package on the end of it and we use that boom to scan over the heat sensitive areas of the show thermal protection system though reinforce carbon carbon leading edge and their tiles in the belly of the orbiter look for any damages they've occurred during actor yes sir you may see a harshly were looking out of windows make sure that we don't get the army to close the show another thing we've done that we do on the second flight days for parody of spacesuits got a space walks a visitor standen and our hearts filling up or drink bags

are the space walks on the third flight deck we wake up we yeah we rendezvous with the space station when his ears a laptop computer that we use is one of our tools it shows the trajectory of the space shuttle as a top runner inc a space station here crossing the coast of perot were about four of the polish be a station it would put the shelves reflect maneuver this allows the station crew take images and video again throw protection system to look for endeavour's have ever heard at the frick this fly in the us they felt this point mentally you can see if you look closely at our the payload bay the club its model is the view looking out of this they show at the space station and it's rising in the aft windows ever during this maneuver a new ceo rex waller i am it's a handheld laser instrument to measure the range and arrange rate as we close with the space station or docking at two hundred and fifty thousand pound vehicle to about a one million pound vehicle is a leading to the rear very careful

and very very precise an act ten for its oil out to keep the show in about a one or two inch circle and only have about a one degree offset any access so if wise a felon very slowly here about a tenth of a flipper second it would dock with the space station there we have mechanical docking and he did a great job i mean it was like out of all the whole time so you did a great job it was a positive act has said the league's that rejects that is over we really creepy a space station commanders daughter peggy whitson it was pennies per day and they're so we were happy that show barber guy with a big commerce model as a birthday present we float into the space station as he concedes very spacious very very bright beautiful place to work after being on the show for three days and comic recorders it was like to have all extra volume but that can't be careful because you get get to closing a bump in a thing

so the space station crew up tempo for what they want us for over a couple hours to let us sit there and it was great to see them in and peggy really by respectively of russian service model for dinner that night and it is you can eat on the ceiling and you can float sideways and i needed for your freedom party unity it is a lot of fun oh yeah it didn't work and a soul time to talk about the spacewalks and we'd obviously trainees are very hard and then many many times and we agreed that the space walks amid the space walkers are sincere and open in iraq iraq is just another rumor the space station that he has to have has a new you isolate her spacewalking crew members are that are locked in and you open the outside hats in effect with all the air out of it another we have a hatch opened in rex is looking out the us was self care for the very first time ever flying every year through xerox come out the hatch for the first spacewalk and their main job on the first spacewalk was to prepare

the commerce model for them to get out of the payload bay in a test the space station that's all that robotic week but in order for the robot arm to grapple with the caucus model we had to put this grapple fixture in place this was lost on the side wall of the show they had it moved over there and bolted out there was a big job we had put stand on the air on the robot arm here a nice got to grab a picture he put it in place and he uses the power tools much like the power tools you have a home you have the cost under fifty thousand dollars each hand and the people down there dr grapple picture and then replace the shields ago around the shields or more to have biker ameliorate that debris shields so there you have the stay looking from his vantage point cape cod and the us commerce model this is a hans schlegel obviously our german restaurant to see the flag on the shoulder there we have the

helmet lights so again today to work at night and here we have correct small i'm in that sense you know they're now they need to stop and say hey your friends take a nice picture on a second spacewalk got rex and i've sent haddock it is nitrogen think this bombing has our story about and it is nitrogen tank and remove it in the same way it's all about two hundred kilograms you know it's really really heavy and then they go in a robotic arm and they're carrying this chest freezer size up below them where does julian since the very very big and bulky but but obviously uncertainty it's really easy to handle he rides robotic arm around i was in the flight deck of the atlantis open now and read of procedures they take his larger by karma they put the nitrogen taken place in the new figure without the tobacco show columbus was a beautiful model it's just a big

shiny laboratory it took the solar panels to ponder for a quite different cars depending on the silence just a beautiful sight fatah really pretty just to watch these guys with a helmet cameras as her outside they'd describe these are amazing sights of seeing the earth from chrysler it leland melvin i was searching for bikes operator and he's inside the laboratory on the us side of the us space station with no windows flying this robotic arm with that just video monitors and hand controllers he had nine cameras use but he had to put the piece together about where the arm was aware was going to just those cameras use their wonderful job is to some more of the year space walk and we had to bring back a failed gyroscope these big gyroscopes you're used to steer the steer the space station

whether macphail the leader brave on sweden repairing watch again and they're putting it back in the payload bay so that was about that five minutes and about fifteen hours for the family so a new cms really an overnight flight robotic arm down and grappling to the columbus model in a payload bay area will that help or with leyland dan and a very very slowly pulled the columbus model this very very large model out of a payload bay you know i really thought about it in salinas it he could move it this video is very much accelerated because it's a very slow maneuver europeans very proud of model we had one idiots we took our time and that really really move slowly garment is amazing sixth degree of freedom machine and reconfigure its and that allows leland to just use the hand controllers to bring columbus and the accountability mechanism and dr with its playstation

aereo talking with complete he did a great job just an hour or so later we're that's open end of the year and you could see the lights come on and slept inside a columbus model again a big bright beautiful model that does a reconfiguration start activating it i get the experience going to the lights turned on get the life support systems running at the fans' mood and that we see on a flight or draw some experiments so anymore perfect it was just a great great day but there are things we like to do our words take pictures only have time there is to do it out of the caribbean and it and it was actually just breathtaking out of the day to describe it was just an amazing view one very important to do obviously is is eat sleep and i use here sleeping in white it was a few square feet of space in a sleeping bag and that matter if you're on the floor or islip up on the ceiling

and there's just a prick he slept on the sidewalks so it really matter where he slept it very comfortable very very unclear action a few days later our part time or space station and it was a bittersweet day we i mean what a moment i want to stay but a lot lighter but the da the connecticut to find a vehicle this point and leon dr made sure we had been on a great sign that really on the other side and only get them back away from the space station and i that's about four feet in a muscular do a complete map of the space station for some photo and video documentation very cynical on this model probably attached to the right side of the station and up there is just a beautiful ship and really as a ship it's a big beautiful bright chickens a great place to live and a great place to work and integrate research on board and there's just a workplace there's dancing to biden's home space matter what rex was

doing where we're running out psych ward amr with both use for exercise i think he a baby that other historic and when you do the things with that with water surface tension makes no fluids do interesting things here their lockers to store here a clothing stay a show here i'd seen is important part of living in a small country with seven guys for two weeks so while the show stay clean well whether free time our last day in space and i would never say it cameron look out windows for a little bit when things really do is practice landing in been a long time to lead our last stimulus simulation so steven i got the l any similar out with a laptop program and rebel practice landing i'm on night entry date when emmy help just that in her seat so doctors they love were cameras straps in all a member of the flight crew on the us like that and has

demanded that you did something so we are doing a de orbit burn as just a few hundred three percent to change too or twenty five thousand per second trajectory there's just enough to fall back into the atmosphere we really we re enter the atmosphere there you see several hundred mile long clue mohawk plasma gas that said does generate buy a shovel hitting these these at earth molecule is remarkable comeback and the owners and was there we re enter riviera any notion four thousand miles later we arrived over the kennedy space center where the subtle sonic booms earthly as the right overhead we have a left turn the light up with probably one five and against the day just a marvelous job of piling up let's hear that line up with one five it we practice as many many many thousands of times there are some lawyers and with it and actually what the shells were just like a similar was really amazing

let's hear now about three hundred feet and others would like to listen to that mr royster wrong lane pryce it out because now about about two hundred knots thirty miles an hour so it address it out and enroll those stop and it was just a colorful and the long mission year after training thirty days on orbit five point three million miles an hour or a word about seventeen thousand five hundred miles an hour and we're almost are and that fossil had initially but that cannot walk around the a runway that to take a look at a lesson and see that say i thought to prepare the ship for offers for space flight and thank them for their hard service we have to walk around a little bit in there

she would let us look like it was going to run the ship are very little damage it really is amazing that we connected at that it always let us or i was the foreign minister to get to stop there so a major steven us airline and there was time to say how their families that was as he has won twenty two in about twenty minutes the pope i think that we've gotten tougher question very recently but

and i flew honest yes one twenty two special of awareness mission director space station last month every seventy thousand late add to forty five pm and we landed thirteen days later on the twentieth and ios seven that they were at the kennedy space center off to doug stewart thirty miles or flight seventeen thousand six hundred sixty mph and we are mature thirty two hundred and thirteen times and traveled there five point three million miles and i was served as a real pleasure for me to fly so the preschool when it probably leno up spin on a rear now say i was at the school he had this thing in my head and so it had this beautiful italian admitted up and that is my pleasure to bring back the school of character products that they ordered us

i think that one half of the line of the guard and raised in hallways and over half of the pages of a family because the family home with their late night before as angus they last and as mr hendry and i'd spin this will be open in the future a n and something for our students dropped warner reports particles this has really been a lot of reports are the medieval think that every year the board members that point that's a welcome compliment to do it it was really a month but there was a

great artist but you have one more thing and this is a few more things that space and this is a montage of our mission and our car launch into space station a fortified flew with us this mission that should also flew onboard an end in the ritual i'm elliott columnist ewan one of spacewalks and they're landing bestseller that provided fiscal as well i think the end of the song would you join us and you know for the photos very very low moments how did overhear fall with the news about yes

ok there's plenty of time for questions so on the best wish i would have a microphone on the podium set up a record from me alone on this level so if it's all possible you come down then ask a question if the only the top part of this section section and you don't come down you can go to taco to ripen as delegates mr wright that scares us and come down to before we start outsourcing with her of course says students and the media and i will leave this korea north america saw and then it's the us loaded questions thinking micro through the corsair on during all the different wants delays for as this one twenty two love was like on your end in quarantine and everything we're part of at the mission the meetings of the mission managers or their signing at good question about and just a little history we actually did scrub as i mentioned

that earlier we get scrub our first left at the back in december we had some some problems are low level he'll cut off sensors and i still feel today and these sensors and then been a bit of a nuisance to us in the past and now we really want to give the bottom of it so we are very happy effectively police dropped really work we did take are summit meetings with a lot of representation are those meetings we listen in now left fourteen days later and now i went back and quarantined in late january for a fedora want to bust out that solidify crew was a hard sell on board with it with the agency and with europe with the steps that were taken to troubleshoot the problem that engineer solutions design a solution in and get on board and get a certified to fly in a very very rapid protecting effort they figured out the problem is with a few weeks

and i have a solution engineer and design and radio certified very very quickly so that in and just two short months we reworked fixes prominent been agonists and now as the police also very very happy and we're jesuits of course are home while we're a cape canaveral i read an article talked about a trip you guys took to build camaraderie i guess it was a camping trip or you describe the kind of exercises that your group took part in that helped you through many delays and helping your signature drink while you're in orbit they want things that we do for training pilots first get a second first assigned a special crew is up mortgage all going to learn and work as a team the one to be good leaders will only be good followers so we have that at the group that we went out to out the canyon lands in as

south eastern utah on a summer survival trip that we had play food we play water so was really survival but it was a a very arduous trek horizon really really rugged country really hasn't defined the subject as we had to me but it was really a gun very very good team building exercise i also let let that a distressed a little bit and we were able to examine how it would perform under stressful situations maybe we were our best anywhere lord tired in rural hungary or wherever called where all the above the end so we put a cruise in that in an environment to see how just to see how they're going to do in that but that's what his evaluation but as a tool to allow the commander to see what things that that crew can do in and in those situations and is very very good training one of things in my first got the nasa wanna see you guys said you know

it's really funny and they get oscar's of their breakup vendors qualified and becomes an interview as very very well qualified but sometimes it and that we are better people that we think we just like to go camping with you he says especially since you're about like out good in a minivan was it your best friends and roll up the windows and locking doors and come out two weeks later still be friends so oh it's important we do these leadership and follower ship exercises and t building exercises and up to backpacking trip that we took liszt was really really a good tool that's a question because he was there and as this one twenty two is a big symbolic of nasa passing the space shuttle iss torch over tsa on how does it

feels really been part of such a historic mission now as i mentioned earlier that i had all of my get a complete picture universal space station is made up of sixteen partner nations are and a large part of that is the european space agency and the european space agency's main contribution to stay safe was a scoreless laboratory and many many people hundreds of people were cured her career's on the columbus lab and their sodas get to surreal are a real privilege to be able to be a part of that and that he's a european citizens he partnered with nasa to get the columbus laboratory was to space aboard a special i was designed to fit inside a special payload bay and yeah so we were your way that marvel's pinning its orbit and so i was wrong or a privilege it as quell distrust

involved as well when they shouldn't everywhere perfectly trained really really hard and work many many hours to make sure that we have all the details iron completely flat and that there it would go off well an essay we have and i thought about the flight crew i'm talking about nasa and the european space agency in all thousands of people that were of all of those teams were just the people that own the camera but the people under a worker folks back in mission control and injuring teams and it's at mission assurance teams and they're calling folks those the people that report their hearts and souls in a record this laboratory and made it so critical that we didn't make any big mistakes while one garlic and so i think the execution went off flawlessly because we were so well prepared by all those people that question thanks

wineland from the jesse faculty i've been working in the last few weeks with the faculty committee developing our goals for the next two years and our theme is going to be environmental and economic sustainability you of course have had a vantage point that no one else in this room as character you've seen how fine it earth is huge resources can you think of some instances as we look forward into the twenty first century of how nasa research and space exploration it help us all learn to use our limited supplies of fuel better and more efficiently and to make the earth are much more sustainable environment for our grandchildren how i do have to ask what were there for for two years as well as a great topic and that and in as a very very insightful question but see i'm a total of about myspace experience and and when i learned about about the fragility of the planet earth

we were two hundred miles above the surface the desperate far outside the atmosphere an hour of assault on the video but the atmosphere looks like maybe a one centimeter thin wind and as it is very very thin shell that protects us from all kinds of nasty things that come from the sun and an underused resources and i am so i gotta gotta of a new found appreciation for our house in the atmosphere is how fragile it is but the way that it was interesting you don't see borders from states you can see a few things are manmade but certainly not borders at uc riverside things obviously but you can't tell what countries rather especially near and in the asian continent and so you can get the feeling that all this out as international space station's have a nice model for at how well government could work together back here on

planet earth and part that cooperation aides to be take care of our environment and our one on things that are special has on the word that's so obviously out of the forefront these days or hydrogen fuel cells with your local power of the space shuttle from the hydrogen fuel cells and they use hundred private hydrogen and kreidler got a job and those two crises are mixed well they're not mixed get their put through this fuel cell that has a catalyst independence but as an eye drops eye and out all that chemistry that alert here previously not all the chemistry you get political power or heat and water that's it so we generate all the electricity on the spatial of succinct thoughts worth

and we are by our summer heat and water and you know they're a fuel cell automobiles private cars on roads these days there are fuel cells a hydrogen fuel cells that are in use to power buildings in many inner cities and some businesses now are using them and i think that would receive a hydrogen economy really taken off here in openness that police would start tweeting us off of our dependence on on fossil fuels so that's a couple of dresses like i could go on all about of all things a debt that nasa is doing to help our society sustainability of thought and it is why i think it's is out and entered this fuel cell technology isn't knew we'd been used on a special his nineteen eighty one and that it's not it's not that complex either drawn a pilot understand it so it so it

set a good example if they're going to be disappointed tell you how proud i am of the un my sons and i can try to see the senator thank you very much for inviting us in this study i was very very cool to see that and down my mom's here are her path in patricia's ears you went to elementary school with the least that an eye and you i just want and how proud how proud is that you've done with japan and i do have one little simple question we begin to go in pakistan just by road really good friend barry effects for you out there i can see if they're your favorite comic relief or if it sets a lot of things are going they're really good friends via various world without republican go back a space that's become a doubt about that there's there's as you know there's probably out of

acres without a ten or close the shelf what's left in and i keep my fingers crossed we get back from space to go back aline history raise your head and kind of volunteers with ryan right now yes ma'am got a question for you at one point in the flight do you lose the sense that i'm in a really high flying airplane and come to the realization that you as an actress space yeah that's that's a good question to launch sequence as you saw the video is pretty violent and it has a lot of stories is one noise lot of vibrations so why does law very familiar with what it's about life one of the aircraft or to the last grate half minutes so about other nations cut off you go from three thousand force of gravity to zero instantaneously you know you're in a

different world and you know for about the first day or so you tunnel underneath what is really good idea because you're telling it all feel severe it got really hungry it all not sure about this new environment here and you know you tell us work to do and the colors people tell you to do this work but you really is one of the dead if you think of yourself what about this was such a great idea but by golly it's about time is cut off he was ok this is something completely foreign and different and it takes about a day or a day in a half to really be used here but the middle of the second flight deck i was doing really good and really happy but it takes so it takes longer to get there good question because he requested

i was a french lawyer last minute i think i understood how we were joined the last minute yeah well the director takes a long time and many many years of preparation is like the work and about the many years of preparation and a lot of training time and we take people in the ass rock or from all different walks of life military pilots medical doctors scientists we have veterinarian on staff europeans are the bank hire from the same type of the folks are weaker teachers we've got the physicists and chemists and astronomers and ten and after a small walks of life and i will come together in and build a great team and we

decide how is diverse skill sets when you get on orbit you need a guy explain to the pilot how this thing is working and you get that eye on board so that its lifetime and that lots of preparation in and some years of training to get to the point of being assigned a mission and a lecture sign you do about a year year and half of five specific training in because reporters what can and dexter i have two questions in case of a catastrophic event how many hours and minutes that the best not tackle what life support systems first question second be home when it take for someone off of the curve for him come and rescue him ok but a good question doctor to request but we have a number of different scenarios that we train for

edna your launch profile and obviously that the highest risk part of the flight is the launch because you're releasing all this energy in such a short period time try to contain that is very very challenging and as with make space flight as risky as it is it would try to make it as safe as possible but will never be absolutely safe neither tighten your car or fly in an airplane or getting dressed the morning you're taking a shower all these things have some level of risk to them and space flight does is well week we train for it a number of different scenarios if we lose an engine how we have abort landing sites that we can make our if we have other major malfunctions we're procedures to do with them all the space vehicles that carry human beings are very redundant and have a lot of diversity systems on board the likelihood of a catastrophic event is fairly low

but we do have procedures in place for those as well although that has gotten a special have pursued tax and we have we have ways of getting our vehicle we needed to now if we are in space in something that happens like that has leo in his cabin pressure we started them at my career right here cause a small hole in the clinic in a pressure vessel we had procedures again to do with those in the event that we had an undercover bowl loss of pressure and we're at the space station why we were just in a space station and i shuttled come get us the timeframe of sharp tongue of the time yet the question we can stay on their show on a station for up to sixty days and there's plenty of water plenty of food an airplane archie onboard space station to sustain that many people for her sexy and maybe ninety days when a conservation alone could probably

longer but certainly long enough and we played this for every space shuttle flight now we always half a vehicle with a tech are ready to go in case we needed to performers to fly think it's i don't think you could question there are random very good question well let's see in zero gravity you wouldn't have to worry about walking around this town here because all the space around you is usable and you could see it on the video we were sleeping on the ceiling and eating on the ceiling and when you want to go from here to there you just push off you don't have to walk you can just float across the room and you know it is very much forced to get sued over there and when you get there fewer stoppages or something and stop and you could work there for a while and it was

time to go back in just float back like superman good question and you said during a video while the shuttle's landing that it flew like the simulations that's true for the whole mission or there any noticeable the differences between simulations in the actual show ok quick question why mia the foresters know there really aren't any major difference is that we have some very very good high fidelity simulators that we use for different definition time periods for asset we have one similarly use the wartime friendly another one and for lenny we have to record every similar so we use the trail of the aspects of the flight we also have both very very worsening poor are used to train leah leah chase water and points a wrinkle is a bit

well it's a bit daggy undersized it's it's forty feet deep and there are if you widen three of the law so its previous iceland tell you about a full size mock up of the space station submerged in it and so we use that for when the space walks as a very very good simulation and as the neutral buoyancy laboratory and we get the space walkers down in the water would eventually boy and let him go practice their tasks in an environment so are there really aren't any major differences between the simulators and flight in space other than floating an incredible views whatever two quick questions first of all how long does it take to set up an astronaut for a space walk and the second question is what like the new shared on gravity devices that her research along area as anti gravity is a force or fighting or up

there your questions his first latino cure for a space walk you had the head of the guys for a parole for nominal section at our space walker the suits for about ten after twelve hours setting up is really rather but yet to stay in the scene for quite sometime as ed pressurize campers nitrogen now your blood and so he developed a martian atmosphere before even reduce pressures at pre pre for quite some time to do that so the whole but tiger there ensued could be going at all hours for a fix that the airspace or and your second question was about about using devices to simulate gravity for these long duration space flights one of the physiological effects of one teresa space flight is that the bone mass and muscle mass in your body goes away very rapidly

we're all on leroy in order for two weeks and i noticed that my legs and much more in my muscles one away very very rapidly and the bone mass the calcium in your bones first deplete very very rapidly as well so we have to develop countermeasures for those things one way to do it is a lot there's politicize and that is a weight bearing exercise before the flight and during the flight a laundry should remember spend two to three hours a day doing physical exercise and try to maintain air their muscle mass and their bone mass <unk> to mars i will be on the order of years as we did look at a boy were captured three hours a day for copiers like a lot of military so we look at other devices well and that centrifuge devices or have been talked about where you can put a very very low amount of gravity but maybe enough set that to stop that that that bone mass depletion so it what it may be at a third of a gee maybe this more

than that one reason for the moon is that we can simulate those low low gravity on the moon a solid place to do it and i you know there is some gravity on the road and so they do they will make it fairly study how human beings live in in that and are meant for long prison time when a better feel for it but there are these these things or talk about obviously very expensive in a very heavy and getting things off of the planet is very expensive so what want to be careful and but that's a really good question things what more are what is your role in nasa now the mission is over right we get back from our flights and that we do and you're right now we get the fun part about women talk about our flight on a people or pay for it how great it was a while ago it and we do that for a few months and

that would affect your technical assignments and out why continue to do some training on off to stay current and my job is really to work in mission control to be the communicator for other space missions so i sit with a flight director and i'm the guy on the radio thank you very much at the peak