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[Ronald Reagan]
…advances in science and technology.
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Opportunities and jobs will multiply
as we cross new thresholds of knowledge
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and reach deeper into the unknown.
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Nowhere is this more important
than our next frontier, space.
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Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop
a permanently manned space station,
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and to do it within a decade.
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[applause]
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[girl] Hi, Dad. Have you gotten
your Christmas presents yet?
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[man] Yeah, thank you for the T-shirt.
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[girl] I think I put, like,
a bell in there
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that was like, "Number One Dad."
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-Got the bell and the card too, yeah.
-[girl] Yeah.
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[man] The T-shirt was in there too.
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[girl] Yeah.
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-[man] Love you, Charlotte.
-[girl] Love you too.
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[applause]
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Mr. Secretary General,
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delegates to the United Nations,
ladies and gentlemen,
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we meet again in the quest for peace.
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[man] President Kennedy made a speech
to the United Nations in September of 1963
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{\an8}and made the offer
to bring the Soviet Union in
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{\an8}and to make them
a part of the Apollo program.
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[JF Kennedy] Finally, in a field
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where the United States
and the Soviet Union
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have a special capacity
in the field of space,
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there is room for new cooperation,
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for further joint efforts
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in the regulation
and exploration of space.
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I include among these possibilities
a joint expedition to the Moon.
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Space offers no problems of sovereignty.
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Why, therefore,
should man's first flight to the Moon
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be a matter of national competition?
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November of that year,
he wrote a memo to NASA
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telling them he would like to have them
come back in two weeks
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and tell them why the Soviet Union
should not be a part of Apollo.
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President Kennedy was killed
on the 22nd of November,
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and that never happened.
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That vision that Kennedy had
of working together as partners
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finally materialized
and is happening today.
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That is the space station
we're flying right now.
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[man] There has never been any other
collaborative engineering project
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of this scope, size or challenge,
in my opinion.
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You are basically taking
pieces of hardware
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that may have been built
thousands of miles apart,
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that had never been in the same room,
never touched each other.
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Then you have to put them together
in space, in a vacuum,
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going at 18,000 miles an hour,
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{\an8}and they have to work
the first time they touch
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{\an8}and not cause shocks or not leak
or have any other problems
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{\an8}that of course are disastrous in space.
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And they all worked. They all worked
when we put them together.
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I flew three times in space.
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My third mission was as the commander
of the International Space Station
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early in its assembly in life.
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I was trained
for several possible spacewalks.
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{\an8}I ended up doing one
where we were attaching the cables
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{\an8}to power up a new compartment
that had come up
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and test out a new piece of equipment
that the Russians had sent up there.
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It's an all-day affair
to get ready for it.
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You have to have all the right equipment,
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we have to prepare the station
as if we can't get back inside
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and have to come in a different way,
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and then you've got to go through
all the procedures
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to make sure your suit is working right
before you go outside.
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It's a whole different experience
being on the outside of the station.
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We're here in Washington
and the Washington Monument's downtown.
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If you could imagine someone asks you
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to go out the windows at the top
of the monument and wash the outside.
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You open the window, you look out.
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There's nothing for 500 feet below you.
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So you open the hatch on the station.
You look out.
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There's nothing except the atmosphere
for 250 miles below you.
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You'd be very careful about making sure
your tethers were always attached,
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because the Russian suit did not have
a little rocket pack on the back
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to fly you back if you got loose.
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About an hour or so in,
when I was feeling pretty comfortable,
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I found myself on top of the station,
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and so I put my feet under the hand-holds
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and I stood up on top of the station.
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Imagine standing on top of a 747
and holding on to just a little rope.
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That's what it was like standing up there,
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because you had the fuselage
of the station,
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you had the wings of the solar arrays,
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and you're on top of the world,
and it's all just unrolling beneath you.
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[applause]
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Throughout all history, humankind
has had only one place to call home,
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our planet Earth.
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Beginning this year, 1998,
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men and women from 16 countries
will build a foothold in the heavens,
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the International Space Station.
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With its vast expanses, scientists
and engineers will actually set sail
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on an uncharted sea of limitless mystery
and unlimited potential.
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[applause]
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[man] The space station is really like
being on a ship, sailing some sea.
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We've drawn a lot of legacy
that we all have as seafaring nations.
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What the space station provides
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is our chance to become
a spacefaring civilization.
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{\an8}My name is Bill Shepherd, and I was
the commander of Expedition 1,
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{\an8}the first crew on the space station
that came aboard in November of 2001.
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When I was a young boy,
the space program was starting
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and everybody wanted to be an astronaut.
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I didn't really have
a good prospect of that
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until I was through college
and in the navy,
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and a chance came up to apply
for the space shuttle program,
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and that's how I got to NASA.
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When I was little, I used to cut up
two-by-fours and make little boats.
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I'm still in the boat-building business.
It's just in orbit.
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I don't really know why I was chosen
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to be the commander
for the first expedition.
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In my time in the navy
I worked with many foreign counterparts
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and there was a great amount
of common sense
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and a little bit of kind of
backyard diplomacy required for that.
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I don't know if that was why I got picked,
but that helped me a great deal.
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There was a lot of controversy
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{\an8}when I was named
to be the leader of the first crew.
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{\an8}I had two exceptional Russian cosmonauts
as crewmates,
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but many
of the political leadership in Russia
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were quite unhappy
that, from their standpoint,
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the Americans had taken over
their space program.
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[man in Russian] When I was really young,
my dreams were more down-to-earth.
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However, they were always
about technology.
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I liked machinery.
Big, complicated machinery.
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As I headed
towards my high-school graduation,
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I read quite a lot of quality sci-fi
and thought it would be great
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to work in the space industry
if I were lucky.
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["Beautiful Hell" playing]
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♪ I wonder how a gap can feel this much ♪
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♪ How a gap can feel
Like something this big ♪
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♪ How it multiplies in my veins ♪
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♪ And in my blood and home ♪
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♪ And trigger itself in my thoughts ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ I wonder how a gap can feel this much ♪
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♪ How a gap can feel
Like something this big ♪
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♪ How it multiplies in my veins ♪
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♪ And in my blood and home ♪
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♪ And trigger itself in my thoughts ♪
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[in Russian] Like all boys,
we'd look up into the sky,
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we'd read books,
including the ones about space travel.
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I was old enough by that moment to realize
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that the odds of me
becoming a cosmonaut weren't that high.
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My name is Sergei Krikalev.
I'm a cosmonaut.
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The first crew started to come together,
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and as I had experience of working
on both Mir and the shuttle,
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I was selected for that first crew.
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At first, Bill Shepherd and I
were the only ones there.
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Shortly afterwards,
Yuri Gidzenko was added to our crew.
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So that was the crew,
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Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, and myself.
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We trained for nearly four years
for that first long-term mission.
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{\an8}My name is Ginger Kerrick.
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{\an8}I am currently a division chief
in the Flight Integration Division
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{\an8}at NASA Johnson Space Center.
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In the summer of '95,
I took my application
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and marched it down to the astronaut
selection office, turned it in.
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They had received over 3,000 applicants
and had selected 120 to interview,
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and I was one of the 120.
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I was 26 years old, and I thought,
"Oh, my gosh, my dream has come true."
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But when we went through interview week,
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they did medical tests
and they found that I had kidney stones,
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and there was a new medical
disqualification enacted that year
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that if your body shows the ability
to form a single stone,
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it is a lifetime disqualification
from consideration.
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So I was devastated,
but I had started this new job
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where I got to teach astronauts
in the Mission Operations Directorate,
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and I thought,
well, maybe astronaut wasn't for me.
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Maybe there's another path
that I was destined to take.
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Maybe I'm 26 years old,
and I don't have everything figured out,
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so how about I be open-minded
and see where this leads?
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Do you wanna go through these procedures
or do you want a general tour?
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-General tour would be excellent.
-Okay, let's start up here.
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[Ginger] I was assigned
to support the first crew
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that was getting ready to fly on board
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the yet-to-be-constructed
International Space Station.
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So I got assigned
to Captain William Shepherd,
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Sergei Krikalev, and Yuri Gidzenko.
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[Ginger] Here's the person
who's going to live in there.
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[Bill] Sergei, clean up your room.
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Open the door and throw everything out.
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[Ginger] Those guys were great.
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From an age perspective,
Yuri was more my age,
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Sergei was about the age
of my older brother,
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and Shep was 20 years older
and kind of like a father figure.
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So managing those three personalities
took a unique skill set.
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[Bill] This was a new vehicle.
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It had components
from 15 different countries.
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The pieces were not gonna come together
until they met each other in orbit.
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Many of the techniques and procedures
we needed to operate it
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had not been written yet.
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So our training was very much
"fly by the seat of your pants."
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[Sergei in Russian] The training
was intense and unusual,
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even by modern standards.
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The level of our training
was well above average,
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because we studied a lot of things
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just in case there's an emergency
we cannot predict.
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We trained both in Houston
and here in Star City.
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It was a very interesting and friendly
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experience exchange, information exchange,
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emotional exchange, impressions exchange,
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because everyone could learn
something new.
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[Ginger] It was a wonderful experience,
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and if I had never watched the news,
I would never have suspected
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that there would be any antagonism
between Russia and the US,
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based on my experience.
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Both of us have been in competition
since the early '60s,
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trying to get to space,
the old space race,
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but now we recognize that if we're gonna
go beyond low-Earth orbit,
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if we're gonna go to the Moon or Mars,
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the only way to do that
is to do it together.
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[Bill] When we did land survival, we did
it in the winter outside of Moscow,
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and it was very wet and cold.
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We were in a boilerplate capsule,
as if we had just landed,
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we got out in our survival suits,
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and we had to build a little camp
and then survive.
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It was an extremely good experience
to bond the crew,
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and for time for us
to really get to know each other
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and contribute to what each of us
could offer as strengths and weaknesses.
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[Bill] We've been here for two days.
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Our launch is three days away, on Tuesday.
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Everything in the vehicle looks
ready to go. Crew's well trained.
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We've been ready for probably a year
to go fly in space.
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It's just kind of a quiet time,
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thinking about everything we have to do
once we start flying,
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and Tuesday morning, we'll be ready.
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[interviewer] Beth, any thoughts?
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{\an8}Just still, I think, hard to believe
that we're actually here,
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{\an8}and just looking forward
to watching a great launch, so…
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[Bill] We launched
on the 31st of October, 2000.
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We're out in Baikonur
way out in the desert in Kazakhstan.
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We sign our names
to the door of the room that we're in.
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I drew a little picture of Space Station.
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[commentator] Bill Shepherd's now joined
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by Johnson Space Center Director,
Mr. George Abbey.
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This is just before
the crew members were set
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to head over to the suit-up room
this morning shortly after wake-up.
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[Bill] We have a little breakfast,
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and then we go out
to the launch pad in a bus.
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[commentator] Bill Shepherd,
the commander of Expedition 1,
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along with Yuri Gidzenko
and Sergei Krikalev, now boarding a bus.
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The crew members will again head over
to the suit-up room.
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[Bill] The Russian approach to rules
is often quite different than the US,
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and that's one of the things
you get to appreciate sometimes.
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In the United States,
we have a very regimented procedure
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for how you deal with friends and family
right before the launch.
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I waved goodbye to my wife
about two hours before we launched,
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and then we're driving away in the bus,
and I saw her through the window.
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But then right as we're getting ready
to go out to the rocket,
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she surprised me from behind.
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Whoa! This was…
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It was great, but it was just
kind of an unexpected moment
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that you would not find in the US program.
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[commentator] Bill Shepherd, on the left…
on the right of the commander.
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Now heading to the launch pad.
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[Ginger] I was in Baikonur, Kazakhstan,
and as soon as they shut the hatch,
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I started hyperventilating,
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because I felt like
my brother and my dad, basically,
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were locked on a rocket,
and I couldn't process that.
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And one of the Russian generals got me
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and he's moving me through the crowd,
and he says…
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[speaks Russian]
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That means, "It's the mother of the crew."
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And he was trying to part the crowd
so I could see my crew on video,
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and it made me feel a lot better.
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We became a family, and we all still
stay in touch to this day,
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so it was a wonderful experience.
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-[woman] Ignition.
-[man] T-minus ten seconds, nine…
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[Bill] The day, it was very foggy.
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We wouldn't have launched
in the United States
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because you need
a little bit of visibility,
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which we didn't have that day
in Kazakhstan,
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but the Russians fired up
and flew right through it.
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[commentator]
Lift-off of the Soyuz rocket,
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beginning the first expedition
to the International Space Station
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and setting the stage
for permanent human presence in space.
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[Ginger] Physically, you feel the heat,
you feel the vibrations,
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but I guess because I had
such a personal connection to them,
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it felt… I could feel it here.
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It was this culmination of the actual
physical event that was going on
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but actually
the last four years of my life
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and the personal connection I had
with these people.
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It was overwhelming and I don't know
that I can describe what it felt like
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to watch that particular crew launch.
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[Sergei in Russian] Yes! We've arrived!
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We've finally arrived!
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[conversation in Russian]
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[Bill] It's uncomfortable,
somewhat awkward,
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but the vehicle itself was very safe
and we had a good ride to orbit,
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and my sense of surety, if you will,
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that we were gonna have a good mission
was pretty high.
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{\an8}[commentator] In a few seconds,
we will have the docking,
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the first mechanical contact.
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[commentator 2] Six meters distance.
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Five. Four.
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[woman] Four.
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[commentator 2] Three meters.
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-Two meters.
-[commentator] Two.
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[woman] Three.
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-[commentator] And…
-[commentator 2] And…
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[commentator] Contact.
We have a successful docking.
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-The people are applauding here.
-[commentator 2] I can confirm that.
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So the first crew of the International
Space Station have reached their home.
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We docked on the second of November.
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It took a while to equalize the pressure
and then open the hatch,
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and then our mission started.
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[in Russian] The first time!
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The new station.
The new International Space Station.
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[in English] Okay, it's this.
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[Bill] You might think
the commander wanted to be
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the first one through the hatch,
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but I really didn't wanna do that
for two reasons.
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One is Sergei and Yuri
had had a lot of experience
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with docking and opening hatches
and doing it correctly.
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I was the neophyte.
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I didn't think it was my place to get
in front of them and try and do that.
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But the second thing was,
as the commander,
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I wanted one of them to have the honor
of being the first one in.
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[in Russian]
Somebody has to turn on the lights.
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[Sergei in Russian] I remember knowing
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by touch where the switches were,
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so we switched on the lights,
and it was kind of a seminal event.
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♪ I wonder how a gap can feel this much ♪
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♪ How a gap can feel
Like something this big ♪
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♪ How it multiplies in my veins ♪
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♪ And in my blood and home ♪
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[Sergei] Well, I think looking back,
we can see it was a historic moment.
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But back then
we were completely immersed in our work.
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We realized that we had reached
a station that was in a dormant mode
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and none of the systems could
really support the crew's functions.
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Ahead of us there was
rather important and rather urgent work
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to activate all of the station systems
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for it to begin to work as it should,
supporting the crew's lives.
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[Bill] We had about an hour and a half
before we were headed over Europe
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and we were gonna have
a live press conference with the ground.
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And we had to find a TV cable,
we had to hook it up, set the TV up,
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turn the lights on,
make sure the sound was right.
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We couldn't find any of this stuff.
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So we're scrambling around
inside the module like madmen
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to figure out what this stuff was
and where to set it up,
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and we did it just in time.
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Just as the crackling started
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when the radio said
we're in contact with the ground
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and we turned the TV on and it was done.
It was frantic.
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The first expedition on Space Station
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requests permission
to take the radio call sign Alpha.
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[man laughs]
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[man] Temporarily taken as Alpha.
Go ahead.
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Have a good day.
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The little red light went off,
we turned the camera off,
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and we were just sitting there saying
we're done with the day.
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[insects buzz]
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[woman] I grew up in rural Iowa,
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in the south-western part of the state,
on a farm.
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Closest town had 32 people
when I was growing up.
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It's now, like, only 11 or so,
so it's pretty rural.
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Not a lot of folks around.
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The cornfields, the soybean rows,
the rolling hills,
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it's just a beautiful area to grow up.
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The night skies, of course, are wonderful.
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There's just
not a lot of light pollution around.
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I remember as a kid looking at the stars
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and watching for meteorites
as they would enter the atmosphere.
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[man] Okay, Neil, we can see you
coming down the ladder now.
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[Neil Armstrong] Okay, I just checked,
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getting back up to that first step, Buzz.
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It's not even collapsed too far,
but it's adequate to get back up.
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[woman] The night of the Moon landing,
July 20th, 50 years ago,
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which is kind of amazing to me
to think of at this point,
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but I was nine years old,
and that was past our bedtime.
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So it was a big deal to even just get
to stay up and watch in our pajamas
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as they took those first steps
on the Moon.
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[Armstrong] Okay, I'm gonna
step off the LM now.
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That's one small step for man,
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one giant leap for mankind.
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[woman] It left an imprint in me,
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gave me a desire to want to be
an explorer like those guys.
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{\an8}My name is Peggy Whitson,
and I'm a former astronaut.
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{\an8}As a youngster I was pretty quiet.
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I didn't really tell a lot of people
I wanted to become an astronaut.
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It wasn't until I got to college
that I started sharing my goal.
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My parents were always
extremely supportive,
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even though I really don't think
my mother much cared for the idea
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of me getting into a rocket.
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[laughs]
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I applied to be an astronaut
for a course of ten years
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before I was selected.
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Over those ten years they were
having selections every two years
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and I was being rejected
on a bi-yearly cycle,
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getting these wonderful little postcards
saying I was rejected.
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I think just some of that
farmer-stubborn,
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never-give-up kind of thing
kept me going.
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Looking back on it,
it doesn't seem rational or logical
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that I would keep pushing
and keep pushing,
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and keep trying
in spite of being rejected all the time.
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["The Place I Want To Be" playing]
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♪ Old town seven times erased ♪
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♪ Crawled out from the pyre again ♪
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♪ This is the place I want to be ♪
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♪ Is the place I'll fall ♪
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♪ Silkworm spin a thread for me ♪
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♪ No waste
Nothing left that I don't need ♪
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♪ Yours is the face I want to see ♪
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♪ It's the place I'm warm ♪
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♪ And I won't turn my back on this ♪
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[Peggy] "Dear younger me.
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You just watched on TV
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{\an8}as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
took the first steps on the Moon.
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That moment in time
planted a seed of inspiration in you.
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Now it's up to you to nourish that seed
and grow it into more than just a dream.
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It will be ten years of applying
before ever becoming an astronaut.
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The rejections will be discouraging,
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but in your typical style,
you will just keep trying.
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All those years of anticipation
will be surpassed
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when the solid rocket boosters ignite
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and you are literally
roaring into space."
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[reporter] Peggy Whitson, rocketing
towards the International Space Station.
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[Peggy] "Believe it or not,
you will spend more time in space
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than any other American astronaut,
and earn the nickname Space Ninja.
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00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:09,594
You will grow soybeans on orbit,
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while your father
will grow soybeans on Earth.
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You will walk in space ten times.
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You will find that living in space
can actually become a home.
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You will be a role model.
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I'm still struggling with this one,
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so you need to step up a bit earlier
than I have done.
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You will learn that you are so much more
than you are capable of
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and more than you might imagine
or even dream.
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Sincerely, the older you."
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♪ And I won't turn my back on this ♪
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[in Russian] I'm Sergey Volkov,
a Russian pilot and cosmonaut.
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My father, Aleksandr Volkov,
also went to space, to the Mir station.
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I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine,
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when my father was an instructor pilot.
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Then he was selected
to join a cosmonaut group
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and our family moved to Star City
in 1978.
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I was four at the time,
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so it feels like
I've lived my whole life in Star City.
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Because my father was a cosmonaut,
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I was seeing not just
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the public side of the profession.
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I saw it from the inside,
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00:33:56,701 --> 00:34:00,705
and maybe that's why I didn't dream
of becoming a cosmonaut as a child.
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00:34:00,788 --> 00:34:07,754
This profession seemed so heroic
and so difficult to me.
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00:34:10,256 --> 00:34:14,010
When I grew up,
I made the conscious decision
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to take on the responsibility
and accept the risks.
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It was strange
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because my father
was the commanding officer
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and he learned about me joining
by looking through case files
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of the candidates
selected for the physical.
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So he came home one night
with a question,
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"Have you decided
to become a cosmonaut?"
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So we talked,
and that's when my mother learned
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about me wanting to be a cosmonaut.
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00:34:53,716 --> 00:34:59,972
Of course, it came as a surprise
for them, to put it mildly.
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He came to all three of my take-offs.
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00:35:06,562 --> 00:35:11,025
It's a complicated mix of feelings,
but of positive feelings,
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because you train very hard,
for a long time.
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It took me ten years.
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My father led me to the rocket.
We walked together, he supported me,
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we walked from the bus
across the take-off pad,
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and he walked with me to the lift.
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Then when we were lifted up
inside the rocket,
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into our own spaceship,
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we were closed in.
You hear the rocket come alive.
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Valves open, fuel moves, the liquids,
469
00:36:04,162 --> 00:36:11,085
you're inside, you're one with it,
and when the launch actually starts,
470
00:36:11,210 --> 00:36:16,257
you hear the engines work down there,
471
00:36:16,382 --> 00:36:19,468
this calm vibration, the right kind.
472
00:36:26,934 --> 00:36:33,316
The second the rocket goes,
that first overload,
473
00:36:33,441 --> 00:36:38,654
these three people,
not just me, but the whole crew,
474
00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:42,283
are the happiest people on Earth.
475
00:36:45,786 --> 00:36:49,123
["Sun Forest" playing]
476
00:37:18,486 --> 00:37:23,199
♪ I lay in the forest amongst
The butterflies and the fireflies ♪
477
00:37:23,282 --> 00:37:27,036
♪ And the burning horses
And the flaming trees ♪
478
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:30,957
♪ As a spiral of children
Climb up to the sun ♪
479
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,669
♪ Waving goodbye to you
And goodbye to me ♪
480
00:37:34,752 --> 00:37:38,714
♪ As the past pulls away
And the future begins ♪
481
00:37:38,798 --> 00:37:43,469
♪ I say goodbye to all that
As the future rolls in ♪
482
00:37:43,552 --> 00:37:46,806
♪ Like a wave, like a wave ♪
483
00:37:46,889 --> 00:37:50,434
♪ And the past with its savage undertow ♪
484
00:37:50,518 --> 00:37:53,062
♪ Lets go ♪
485
00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:07,493
♪ Come on everyone, come on everyone ♪
486
00:38:08,077 --> 00:38:12,498
♪ A spiral of children
Climbs up to the sun ♪
487
00:38:12,581 --> 00:38:17,628
♪ To the sun, to the sun
And on each golden rung ♪
488
00:38:17,712 --> 00:38:21,882
♪ A spiral of children
Climbs up to the sun ♪
489
00:38:42,069 --> 00:38:44,488
[thunder crashes]
490
00:38:44,613 --> 00:38:46,615
[rain falls]
491
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:51,162
[man] I remember having this recurring,
it wasn't really a dream,
492
00:38:51,287 --> 00:38:54,749
it was more like just this idea,
this feeling.
493
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:57,960
I know it sounds weird,
and I'm not kind of a believer
494
00:38:58,085 --> 00:39:02,256
in this kind of weird stuff like this,
but it's true, I had this feeling
495
00:39:02,381 --> 00:39:06,635
that someday I would live
in a really small space,
496
00:39:06,761 --> 00:39:11,682
and it wouldn't be
particularly unpleasant being there.
497
00:39:11,807 --> 00:39:13,851
And once I flew into space
498
00:39:13,976 --> 00:39:18,022
and lived in the crew quarters
on the International Space Station,
499
00:39:18,147 --> 00:39:22,526
it just seemed like my childhood memory.
Very strange.
500
00:39:24,111 --> 00:39:27,782
My name's Scott Kelly.
I am a former NASA astronaut.
501
00:39:29,283 --> 00:39:31,452
Spent a lot of time
on the space station.
502
00:39:31,577 --> 00:39:33,371
Over 500 days.
503
00:39:38,334 --> 00:39:41,128
My family was me, my twin brother, Mark,
504
00:39:41,253 --> 00:39:44,632
my mom and dad,
who were both police officers.
505
00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:49,095
{\an8}I was a very rambunctious kid
506
00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:51,472
{\an8}that could not pay attention in school.
507
00:39:51,972 --> 00:39:55,976
I know that's somewhat counter-intuitive
to what people think of an astronaut.
508
00:39:56,102 --> 00:39:57,645
You think, "That guy's an astronaut.
509
00:39:57,770 --> 00:40:01,732
He must have been the smartest kid
in the class, the overachiever."
510
00:40:01,857 --> 00:40:03,109
But that was not me.
511
00:40:03,234 --> 00:40:05,486
["(Don't Fear) The Reaper" playing]
512
00:40:12,284 --> 00:40:15,788
I was the kid
in the back of the room,
513
00:40:15,913 --> 00:40:18,290
always distracted,
looking out the window,
514
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:21,168
looking at the clock,
trying to make it go faster.
515
00:40:25,631 --> 00:40:28,509
[school bell rings]
516
00:40:30,886 --> 00:40:32,346
I was a good kid, you know.
517
00:40:32,471 --> 00:40:36,934
But I had no motivation at all
to do anything related to school.
518
00:40:38,060 --> 00:40:39,311
♪ Come on, baby ♪
519
00:40:39,395 --> 00:40:41,188
♪ Don't fear the reaper ♪
520
00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:42,731
♪ Baby, take my hand ♪
521
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,275
Thinking back to when we were kids,
522
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:49,947
I don't know how our mother didn't,
like, send us away to some home.
523
00:40:50,072 --> 00:40:53,200
We were probably teenagers
when finally she says,
524
00:40:53,325 --> 00:40:56,537
"Can you guys
just please stop running everywhere?"
525
00:40:56,662 --> 00:41:01,292
And I felt, like, "It's not possible.
I cannot not run everywhere,"
526
00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:07,131
or do whatever seemed like
taking unnecessary risk as a kid.
527
00:41:11,093 --> 00:41:13,345
I went to college
because I didn't know what else to do,
528
00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:15,514
{\an8}and that seemed like the thing to do,
so I went,
529
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,017
{\an8}but really was
on kind of that fast-track
530
00:41:18,142 --> 00:41:21,395
{\an8}to being a, you know,
first-year college dropout.
531
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:23,814
Then one day
I'm just walking across the campus,
532
00:41:23,898 --> 00:41:26,066
and I happen to go
into the college bookstore,
533
00:41:26,192 --> 00:41:28,569
saw this book on the end of the aisle,
534
00:41:28,694 --> 00:41:32,781
had a really cool title,
it had a red, white and blue cover,
535
00:41:32,907 --> 00:41:35,576
just made me wanna pick it up,
looked exciting.
536
00:41:35,701 --> 00:41:38,162
I remember just lying there
for a few days
537
00:41:38,287 --> 00:41:41,290
on my unmade,
college freshman, dorm-room bed
538
00:41:41,415 --> 00:41:44,376
and just read the stories
of the fighter pilots
539
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:45,669
that later became test pilots
540
00:41:45,794 --> 00:41:48,964
that became the original Mercury,
Gemini and Apollo astronauts.
541
00:41:49,089 --> 00:41:51,342
The book was The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe.
542
00:41:51,467 --> 00:41:55,054
{\an8}It inspired me
to want to do what they did.
543
00:41:55,179 --> 00:41:57,348
{\an8}Sometimes you mention that to people
and they're, like,
544
00:41:57,473 --> 00:42:00,684
you know, 18-year-old kid
reads a book,
545
00:42:00,809 --> 00:42:03,687
decides he or she is gonna
become a NASA astronaut.
546
00:42:03,812 --> 00:42:05,940
That's a giant leap.
547
00:42:06,065 --> 00:42:07,816
But, in retrospect, really what it was
548
00:42:07,942 --> 00:42:10,528
was a bunch of much, much smaller,
manageable steps,
549
00:42:10,653 --> 00:42:13,697
just one built upon the other.
550
00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:17,576
Become good student,
go into the military,
551
00:42:17,701 --> 00:42:20,913
fly fighter planes
off the aircraft carrier,
552
00:42:21,038 --> 00:42:22,623
become a test pilot,
553
00:42:22,748 --> 00:42:25,543
and then maybe
at least I would have a chance.
554
00:42:25,668 --> 00:42:28,045
I did apply.
My twin brother also applied.
555
00:42:28,170 --> 00:42:32,132
I figured there was no way I was gonna
get selected, so I loaned him my suit.
556
00:42:32,258 --> 00:42:35,135
Then they call me
a couple of months later, tell me,
557
00:42:35,261 --> 00:42:38,472
"Hey, we wanna interview you as well."
558
00:42:38,597 --> 00:42:41,559
So I tell my brother, "Hey, Mark,
NASA called me for an interview,
559
00:42:41,684 --> 00:42:45,312
but you understand, you know,
you gotta buy me a new suit, right,
560
00:42:45,437 --> 00:42:48,399
'cause just how ridiculous
would that look,
561
00:42:48,524 --> 00:42:50,651
me showing up in the same clothes?"
562
00:42:50,776 --> 00:42:51,610
But he didn't.
563
00:42:51,694 --> 00:42:55,155
So I have the only suit that's been
selected to be an astronaut twice.
564
00:42:55,281 --> 00:42:56,782
Okay, Scott, the weather's great,
565
00:42:56,907 --> 00:42:59,034
Endeavour's ready to fly
after four and a half years,
566
00:42:59,159 --> 00:43:02,079
so good luck, Godspeed
and have some fun up there.
567
00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:05,082
[Scott] Well, thanks, Mike.
We'll see you in a couple of weeks,
568
00:43:05,207 --> 00:43:08,877
and thanks for loaning us
your space shuttle.
569
00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:13,173
Good, Scott. Thanks a lot. Take
good care of that great ship Endeavour.
570
00:43:13,299 --> 00:43:17,052
[man] T-minus ten,
nine, eight, seven, six.
571
00:43:17,177 --> 00:43:19,096
Go for main engines start.
572
00:43:19,221 --> 00:43:23,225
Four, three, two, one, zero.
573
00:43:23,350 --> 00:43:26,437
{\an8}And lift-off of space shuttle Endeavour.
574
00:43:26,562 --> 00:43:29,273
{\an8}♪ Sun is shinin' in the sky ♪
575
00:43:29,523 --> 00:43:32,693
♪ There ain't a cloud in sight ♪
576
00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:36,405
♪ It's stopped rainin'
Everybody's in the play ♪
577
00:43:36,488 --> 00:43:38,324
♪ And don't you know ♪
578
00:43:38,407 --> 00:43:41,619
♪ It's a beautiful new day, hey ♪
579
00:43:41,702 --> 00:43:44,121
[commentator] Endeavour
rolling on to the proper alignment,
580
00:43:44,204 --> 00:43:47,249
heads down, wings level, for the
eight-and-a-half-minute ride to orbit,
581
00:43:47,374 --> 00:43:51,003
taking aim on the International
Space Station for docking on Friday.
582
00:43:57,926 --> 00:44:00,304
[Scott] It looks like the space shuttle
lifts off slowly.
583
00:44:00,387 --> 00:44:02,931
When you're inside of it,
there is nothing slow about that.
584
00:44:03,015 --> 00:44:07,770
It's seven million pounds of thrust
instantly on your back
585
00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:11,607
and you feel like
you can feel every pound of it.
586
00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:15,277
[commentator]
One minute, 30 seconds into the flight.
587
00:44:15,402 --> 00:44:18,906
Endeavour currently traveling
almost 2,000 miles an hour.
588
00:44:19,907 --> 00:44:24,703
[Scott] You know you are
in this incredibly complex machine
589
00:44:24,828 --> 00:44:28,957
that is operating
at really the limits of our ability
590
00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:32,628
to produce energy in a spacecraft.
591
00:44:32,753 --> 00:44:35,297
Feel every pound
of that seven million pounds of thrust.
592
00:44:35,422 --> 00:44:36,882
It is absolutely crazy.
593
00:44:37,716 --> 00:44:39,802
[commentator]
Booster rockets are confirmed staging.
594
00:44:39,927 --> 00:44:43,263
A good solid rocket booster separation.
Guidance now converging.
595
00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:49,687
Endeavour traveling almost 4,000
miles an hour, 47 miles in altitude.
596
00:44:51,522 --> 00:44:53,440
We're coming up
on the point of negative return,
597
00:44:53,565 --> 00:44:55,567
where the shuttle
will be too far down range,
598
00:44:55,651 --> 00:44:57,736
too high in altitude
to return to the launch site
599
00:44:57,820 --> 00:44:59,530
in the event of an engine failure.
600
00:44:59,655 --> 00:45:01,281
[man] Endeavour, negative return.
601
00:45:02,533 --> 00:45:04,118
[Scott] Negative return.
602
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,915
[commentator] Standing by
for external tank separation.
603
00:45:16,296 --> 00:45:20,509
External tank separation confirmed.
Endeavour now in its preliminary orbit.
604
00:45:21,718 --> 00:45:25,597
Commander Scott Kelly now maneuvering
Endeavour to the correct orientation.
605
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:35,149
[Scott] Copy. Nominal MECO.
OMS-1 is not required.
606
00:45:35,899 --> 00:45:38,068
[commentator] A smooth climb to orbit
for Endeavour
607
00:45:38,193 --> 00:45:41,822
and its seven crew members, heading for
what could be two weeks in space
608
00:45:41,905 --> 00:45:43,907
and a visit
to the International Space Station
609
00:45:44,032 --> 00:45:46,702
with docking planned
for Friday afternoon.
610
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,027
[man] As a glass artist,
I'm inspired by the planets.
611
00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:22,654
Actually, I've always been inspired
by the planets.
612
00:46:22,779 --> 00:46:27,242
Even when I was a kid,
I loved looking up at the stars.
613
00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:32,456
Glass is just sand.
It's part of the Earth.
614
00:46:33,790 --> 00:46:36,793
When it's hot, glass is alive.
615
00:46:36,919 --> 00:46:39,004
It has an inner light.
616
00:46:39,922 --> 00:46:43,675
It is a weird twist of fate
that I was making planets
617
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:48,180
and making space-related artwork
long before Cady and I met.
618
00:46:50,807 --> 00:46:55,604
My name is Josh Simpson.
My wife, Cady Coleman, is an astronaut.
619
00:46:56,730 --> 00:46:59,733
[commentator] Cady Coleman,
Paolo Nespoli, and Dmitri Kondratyev
620
00:46:59,858 --> 00:47:02,319
head toward
the International Space Station.
621
00:47:03,195 --> 00:47:05,864
Soyuz lighting up the night sky
there at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
622
00:47:05,989 --> 00:47:08,408
It's a good pitch program
according to flight controllers.
623
00:47:08,492 --> 00:47:09,660
[Cady] Thrusters are stable.
624
00:47:09,743 --> 00:47:11,995
[commentator] The Soyuz is delivering
102 tons of thrust
625
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,331
from its four boosters
and single engine.
626
00:47:14,456 --> 00:47:16,959
The first stage of the Soyuz
measures 68 feet in length
627
00:47:17,084 --> 00:47:18,669
and 24 feet in diameter.
628
00:47:18,794 --> 00:47:19,878
It is burning liquid fuel
629
00:47:20,003 --> 00:47:22,381
for the first two minutes
and six seconds of the flight.
630
00:47:22,506 --> 00:47:24,132
[Josh] There's this burst of light
631
00:47:24,258 --> 00:47:29,096
and this rocket just lifts majestically
up into the air.
632
00:47:29,221 --> 00:47:32,933
As it goes higher up into the sky,
the light gets brighter,
633
00:47:33,058 --> 00:47:38,897
until it diminishes and just becomes
this little, bright pinpoint of light.
634
00:47:40,566 --> 00:47:46,572
It's amazing to think that someone
that you love is that pinpoint of light.
635
00:47:49,032 --> 00:47:50,909
[commentator]
A live view inside the Soyuz.
636
00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:52,828
Paolo Nespoli there
on the right-hand side.
637
00:47:52,953 --> 00:47:54,705
Dmitri Kondratyev
there in the middle seat.
638
00:47:54,830 --> 00:47:56,748
He is the commander of the spacecraft.
639
00:47:56,873 --> 00:47:59,459
And on the left-hand side's
Cady Coleman.
640
00:47:59,585 --> 00:48:02,254
[Cady] Parameters of the launch vehicle
are normal.
641
00:48:02,379 --> 00:48:06,049
Okay, copy. Everything is normal on board.
150 seconds.
642
00:48:21,565 --> 00:48:22,566
I'm Cady Coleman.
643
00:48:22,691 --> 00:48:27,446
I'm an astronaut who lived on
the space station for almost six months.
644
00:48:28,864 --> 00:48:34,119
My dad worked on the Sealab program,
where men first lived under the sea,
645
00:48:34,244 --> 00:48:38,957
and I think it became normal to me
that it just was part of life,
646
00:48:39,082 --> 00:48:43,170
that people would live in places
that not many people lived.
647
00:48:43,295 --> 00:48:45,631
{\an8}The bottom of the ocean
was part of our world,
648
00:48:45,756 --> 00:48:47,591
{\an8}we just hadn't been there yet.
649
00:48:55,390 --> 00:48:59,770
I loved being underwater
and having it be effortless,
650
00:48:59,895 --> 00:49:02,731
where you could breathe
and you could see,
651
00:49:02,856 --> 00:49:07,152
and I felt like I was in somebody else's
world and I got to explore it.
652
00:49:18,914 --> 00:49:25,671
One of my favorite places
on the space station is our cupola.
653
00:49:28,340 --> 00:49:30,634
It is amazing up here.
654
00:49:32,302 --> 00:49:34,680
Windows on all sides.
655
00:49:36,848 --> 00:49:39,309
When I found out
that I got accepted as an astronaut,
656
00:49:39,434 --> 00:49:44,815
I had been dating a really nice guy
who lived in Western Massachusetts
657
00:49:44,940 --> 00:49:48,193
that I had met by basically
calling a wrong phone number.
658
00:49:48,318 --> 00:49:52,739
{\an8}One night, the phone rang
and I answered the phone, and I said,
659
00:49:52,864 --> 00:49:54,908
[in Russian accent]
"Hello. What do you want?"
660
00:49:55,033 --> 00:49:58,829
And this perfectly nice woman said,
"Is this Peter?"
661
00:49:58,954 --> 00:50:00,622
And I said, "No, this is not Peter.
662
00:50:00,747 --> 00:50:05,836
My name is Olga Isnitchko
Eavorskayagoopdamehamatalliaihgatana."
663
00:50:05,961 --> 00:50:09,798
And she said, "I'm so sorry.
I thought you were Peter Masters.
664
00:50:09,923 --> 00:50:11,258
I'm looking for his wife, Amy."
665
00:50:11,383 --> 00:50:14,010
And when she said that,
I knew who she was looking for,
666
00:50:14,136 --> 00:50:17,973
because Amy had worked
in my studio years before.
667
00:50:18,098 --> 00:50:20,016
And so I said,
"Well, if you want to find Amy,
668
00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:23,228
you have to look
in the telephone directory,
669
00:50:23,353 --> 00:50:25,522
but when you get Amy on the phone,
670
00:50:25,647 --> 00:50:30,569
you must say hello from Olga Isnitchko
Eavorskayagoopdamehamatalliaihga."
671
00:50:30,694 --> 00:50:34,197
She was so polite,
and I just kept pulling her leg.
672
00:50:34,322 --> 00:50:38,201
And so I made her practice this name
over and over and over again,
673
00:50:38,326 --> 00:50:41,455
and she finally got it, and I hung up.
674
00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:44,541
But when she got her friend Amy
on the phone, she said,
675
00:50:44,666 --> 00:50:45,959
"There's this really weird man
676
00:50:46,084 --> 00:50:48,795
at the place where you worked,
you used to work."
677
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,215
And Amy just cracked up and said,
678
00:50:52,340 --> 00:50:55,510
"That's Josh.
He disguises his voice at night.
679
00:50:55,635 --> 00:50:58,722
He hates… He doesn't wanna get
an answering machine."
680
00:50:58,847 --> 00:51:03,310
And so Cady decided to call me back.
681
00:51:03,435 --> 00:51:06,563
And so she called me back
with a Russian accent,
682
00:51:06,688 --> 00:51:09,649
and she said she was from Russian KGB
683
00:51:09,775 --> 00:51:11,943
and there had been numerous reports
of glass-breaking.
684
00:51:12,068 --> 00:51:15,405
And I said,
"I'm not Russian. I'm Bulgarian."
685
00:51:15,530 --> 00:51:17,866
And she said,
"We do them too, and you're history."
686
00:51:18,492 --> 00:51:23,079
When we met, it was obvious to me
that we should be together.
687
00:51:23,205 --> 00:51:26,833
It took her a long time
to come around to that viewpoint.
688
00:51:27,626 --> 00:51:29,586
When you tell people
that you live in Houston
689
00:51:29,711 --> 00:51:32,589
and your boyfriend
lives in Western Massachusetts,
690
00:51:32,714 --> 00:51:36,051
they look at you, like,
"Well, that's gonna last."
691
00:51:36,176 --> 00:51:39,054
And so we invented a new word
which was "sweetheart,"
692
00:51:39,179 --> 00:51:42,182
which seemed somehow more long-term.
693
00:51:42,307 --> 00:51:46,561
But I was really glad
that I sort of already knew the person
694
00:51:46,686 --> 00:51:49,689
I was gonna spend
the rest of my life with.
695
00:51:49,815 --> 00:51:53,401
Before I applied, before, there was
sort of this aspect of this job
696
00:51:53,527 --> 00:51:56,363
that's hard for people
to get their arms around.
697
00:51:56,488 --> 00:51:58,448
"What does it mean?
What does it mean for her?
698
00:51:58,573 --> 00:52:01,243
What does it mean for me?
What's our life gonna be like?"
699
00:52:01,368 --> 00:52:03,787
It was really nice
to have already met somebody
700
00:52:03,912 --> 00:52:07,707
that already seemed to love
all those things about me.
701
00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,210
[Josh] When Cady
was accepted as an astronaut,
702
00:52:10,293 --> 00:52:11,503
the first thing that happened
703
00:52:11,628 --> 00:52:16,007
was that you have to show up to work
at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
704
00:52:16,132 --> 00:52:19,219
And so when Jamey was born,
705
00:52:19,344 --> 00:52:22,055
we knew that either
Jamey was going to have to travel,
706
00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:25,183
or, because I have a glass studio here,
707
00:52:25,308 --> 00:52:29,229
it turned out that I became
the prime parent and Cady would travel,
708
00:52:29,354 --> 00:52:34,484
and I've always understood
that I'm gonna be the prime parent.
709
00:52:35,527 --> 00:52:40,198
When Cady got first assigned
even to her first mission,
710
00:52:40,323 --> 00:52:43,702
I was pretty worried
about what was gonna happen to her,
711
00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:47,038
whether she was gonna be safe,
whether it was gonna be okay,
712
00:52:47,163 --> 00:52:51,626
until I was kind of an emotional wreck.
713
00:52:51,751 --> 00:52:55,714
But then it occurred to me that
there are literally thousands of people
714
00:52:55,839 --> 00:52:59,259
who are concerned
with her safety and well-being,
715
00:52:59,384 --> 00:53:03,680
and nothing that I'm doing,
nothing, no amount of worry,
716
00:53:03,805 --> 00:53:09,603
no amount of stress on my part
was gonna help one way or the other.
717
00:53:09,728 --> 00:53:13,732
And I also thought about the fact
that Cady took this job
718
00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:18,904
because, well, she wanted to do
that kind of exploration,
719
00:53:19,029 --> 00:53:22,282
she also knew full well
the dangers involved.
720
00:53:22,407 --> 00:53:27,412
And she's completely…
I don't think she wants to die,
721
00:53:27,537 --> 00:53:33,001
but I think she's willing to make
that sacrifice if that's the way it works.
722
00:53:33,126 --> 00:53:37,672
And I just thought, "Well,
if my sweetheart is willing to do that,
723
00:53:37,797 --> 00:53:40,216
then I should just let go there."
724
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:42,260
It's gonna fine,
or it's not gonna be fine,
725
00:53:42,385 --> 00:53:46,890
but nothing that I'm gonna do or say
is gonna make any difference.
726
00:53:47,015 --> 00:53:52,812
And that works right until
you get to the, "Ten, nine, eight…"
727
00:53:52,938 --> 00:53:56,066
And then, of course,
all of that's out the window.
728
00:53:56,191 --> 00:53:57,776
You're completely…
729
00:54:02,322 --> 00:54:09,287
There's just this flow of worry
and pride and frightened emotion,
730
00:54:09,412 --> 00:54:12,082
and then the rocket goes off
731
00:54:12,207 --> 00:54:15,794
and about eight minutes later,
they're in space.
732
00:54:27,430 --> 00:54:28,640
Bye, Cady.
733
00:54:48,201 --> 00:54:50,620
[interviewer] Josh,
Cady's ticket to ride is behind you
734
00:54:50,745 --> 00:54:53,081
here on the launch pad
at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
735
00:54:53,206 --> 00:54:57,293
Your thoughts as you saw
this whole process. Amazing for you?
736
00:54:57,419 --> 00:55:00,046
[Josh] Just a whole cascade
of thoughts, really,
737
00:55:00,171 --> 00:55:07,137
that this is, for Cady, the culmination
of a dream, a lifetime of preparation.
738
00:55:08,638 --> 00:55:15,020
This is the spot where Yuri Gagarin
left from and where Sputnik left from,
739
00:55:15,145 --> 00:55:17,897
and where my sweetheart is going to go.
740
00:55:18,023 --> 00:55:19,274
It's very significant.
741
00:55:19,399 --> 00:55:22,152
I think she's ready,
although, knowing my wife,
742
00:55:22,277 --> 00:55:26,156
she'll be packing right to the last
instant before she goes on board.
743
00:55:35,582 --> 00:55:39,294
The morning that she took off,
744
00:55:39,419 --> 00:55:42,672
we woke up in the middle of the night,
it must have been 2:00 in the morning,
745
00:55:42,797 --> 00:55:44,549
and we drove to the launch site.
746
00:55:44,674 --> 00:55:47,010
It was really cold.
747
00:55:50,597 --> 00:55:53,641
We were a mile away,
748
00:55:53,767 --> 00:55:58,646
but it was just sort of a cement platform
where we viewed the launch,
749
00:55:58,772 --> 00:56:04,027
and it was so cold
that no amount of clothing helped.
750
00:56:04,152 --> 00:56:07,113
The cold just cut right through you.
751
00:56:07,947 --> 00:56:11,409
[commentator] Here on the ground
in Baikonur, a crowd of family and friends
752
00:56:11,534 --> 00:56:13,953
and NASA officials,
as well as Roscosmos officials,
753
00:56:14,079 --> 00:56:15,705
are watching tonight's launch
754
00:56:15,830 --> 00:56:19,751
less than a mile away
from the Soyuz itself.
755
00:56:19,876 --> 00:56:26,424
It was really challenging for Jamey
at launch because I think that sudden,
756
00:56:26,549 --> 00:56:29,094
"I understand what Dad's
been talking about all this time.
757
00:56:29,219 --> 00:56:32,931
That's a rocket.
That's my mom. She's gone."
758
00:56:33,056 --> 00:56:35,642
And there was
a flood of emotion for him,
759
00:56:35,767 --> 00:56:39,896
and, for me, I was concerned about him
760
00:56:39,979 --> 00:56:43,650
as much as I was concerned for Cady.
761
00:56:44,109 --> 00:56:46,820
And I realize that he was turning to me
762
00:56:46,945 --> 00:56:51,074
and was kind of hanging on to me
and he was in tears.
763
00:57:23,982 --> 00:57:27,485
Watching it go up
was profound for Jamey.
764
00:57:27,610 --> 00:57:29,612
I think he realized that…
765
00:57:32,282 --> 00:57:34,576
his mom was really gone.
766
00:57:36,661 --> 00:57:40,540
[man] Cady Coleman blasted out last week
on board the Soyuz rocket out of Russia,
767
00:57:40,665 --> 00:57:43,960
leaving behind her husband
and ten-year-old son for six months' time.
768
00:57:44,085 --> 00:57:47,172
John, I know that you've been anxious
to talk to Cady up there in space,
769
00:57:47,297 --> 00:57:48,381
so why don't you go first?
770
00:57:48,506 --> 00:57:50,758
[John] Cady, to you,
are you getting settled in?
771
00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:54,262
You got the toothbrush put away
and the socks in the sock drawer?
772
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:58,016
You know, I've gotten
so I feel actually right at home here,
773
00:57:58,141 --> 00:57:59,767
I think it's just like any other place,
774
00:57:59,893 --> 00:58:03,563
and then sometimes there's things
that remind me that we're in space.
775
00:58:04,355 --> 00:58:05,482
Like this.
776
00:58:06,733 --> 00:58:08,776
-You know, you…
-Take it.
777
00:58:09,486 --> 00:58:13,156
It's another one of those bad-hair days
for Cady up in space.
778
00:58:13,281 --> 00:58:15,366
[Jamey] I remember, like,
saying goodbye to my mom,
779
00:58:15,492 --> 00:58:20,705
{\an8}like, seeing her walk out
of the sort of prep facility.
780
00:58:20,830 --> 00:58:24,709
{\an8}And I was, like,
"Okay, like, this is it," you know.
781
00:58:24,834 --> 00:58:26,753
And I hadn't started crying quite then,
782
00:58:26,878 --> 00:58:29,964
but then when I saw the rocket
ascending into the sky,
783
00:58:30,089 --> 00:58:32,634
I was, like, "Wow, my mom isn't here."
784
00:58:32,759 --> 00:58:35,386
It really brought me to tears
'cause it was just, like,
785
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:39,474
"Wow, my mom
isn't on the planet anymore."
786
00:59:07,669 --> 00:59:11,631
My name is Koichi Wakata.
I'm a JAXA astronaut.
787
00:59:11,756 --> 00:59:13,675
I flew in space four times.
788
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:17,345
I went to the International
Space Station three times.
789
00:59:20,014 --> 00:59:24,727
{\an8}I was born and grew up
in the north of Tokyo.
790
00:59:27,814 --> 00:59:29,691
When I was five years old,
791
00:59:29,816 --> 00:59:32,735
I had a strong longing
for flying in space
792
00:59:32,860 --> 00:59:36,322
when I saw the Apollo lunar landing.
793
00:59:36,447 --> 00:59:38,950
At the time,
there were no Japanese astronauts,
794
00:59:39,075 --> 00:59:44,622
so, even for a small boy,
it seemed like an unreachable goal.
795
00:59:54,007 --> 00:59:56,009
[robot in Japanese] Hello, Mr. Wakata.
796
00:59:57,343 --> 01:00:02,599
[in Japanese] Pleased to meet you,
first talking robot in space.
797
01:00:06,936 --> 01:00:10,356
[in Japanese] Pleased to meet you,
first Japanese commander of the ISS.
798
01:00:13,818 --> 01:00:17,280
[Koichi in English] When we go
to deep space, like to Mars,
799
01:00:17,405 --> 01:00:20,658
it takes 20 minutes for the conversation
800
01:00:20,783 --> 01:00:24,954
to go through the distance
between the Earth and Mars,
801
01:00:25,079 --> 01:00:29,125
and so the real-time conversation
is not going to happen.
802
01:00:30,251 --> 01:00:32,670
I think this kind of AI buddy
803
01:00:32,795 --> 01:00:36,382
may be very helpful
for your psychological boost.
804
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:48,519
The space station is a spacecraft
in low-Earth orbit.
805
01:00:48,645 --> 01:00:52,565
The purpose of the space station
is to serve as a laboratory,
806
01:00:52,690 --> 01:00:58,780
and it's an outpost to utilize
the unique environment of micro-gravity,
807
01:00:58,905 --> 01:01:00,698
zero gravity, basically,
808
01:01:00,823 --> 01:01:06,287
in order to conduct a variety
of experiments in science and technology
809
01:01:06,412 --> 01:01:10,667
that can benefit the lives
of many people around the world.
810
01:01:15,463 --> 01:01:18,299
We have only six crew members usually.
811
01:01:18,424 --> 01:01:21,844
Each one of the crew members is tasked
812
01:01:21,969 --> 01:01:26,391
to lead a certain part of the work
on board the space station.
813
01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:30,520
Of course, we all have to be able
to function in case of an emergency.
814
01:01:30,645 --> 01:01:32,855
We have to have a basic understanding
815
01:01:32,980 --> 01:01:36,067
of the operational skills
of the systems on board.
816
01:01:37,276 --> 01:01:40,446
A one-week, two-week flight
can pass really quickly,
817
01:01:40,571 --> 01:01:44,200
but I noticed that after you spend
more than a month,
818
01:01:44,325 --> 01:01:47,203
I felt sort of like a difference.
819
01:01:50,373 --> 01:01:52,291
It's not like a business trip anymore.
820
01:01:52,417 --> 01:01:55,878
It's like I'm living in a new home
away from home.
821
01:01:56,003 --> 01:01:57,588
Change up. Here we go.
822
01:02:15,982 --> 01:02:20,403
Of course, I truly enjoyed
my camaraderie with my crewmates.
823
01:02:20,528 --> 01:02:21,571
That part is great.
824
01:02:21,696 --> 01:02:23,656
-It looks good. Thank you.
-All right, sure.
825
01:02:23,781 --> 01:02:30,621
But it was tough to be separated
from the family for many months.
826
01:02:40,965 --> 01:02:43,050
How's it going? How was school?
827
01:02:45,386 --> 01:02:47,430
-Pretty good.
-Pretty good?
828
01:02:51,768 --> 01:02:53,686
All right, well, I'm gonna let you go.
829
01:02:55,354 --> 01:02:57,607
Is that right? Okay.
830
01:02:57,732 --> 01:02:59,609
All right, I'll look for it.
831
01:03:00,443 --> 01:03:02,487
-Yeah.
-Love you. Bye.
832
01:03:37,855 --> 01:03:40,942
[sirens wail]
833
01:03:46,906 --> 01:03:48,533
[horn blares]
834
01:03:56,290 --> 01:03:58,209
Do not be going in there, bro. Get out!
835
01:03:59,252 --> 01:04:01,087
The top floor's collapsed down.
836
01:04:03,172 --> 01:04:05,842
I saw it blow and then ran like hell.
837
01:04:08,135 --> 01:04:10,805
[indistinct conversations over radio]
838
01:04:40,585 --> 01:04:42,044
[man] Hey, Steve, how's it going?
839
01:04:43,296 --> 01:04:46,674
[Steve] Well, Frank, we're not having
a very good day down here on Earth.
840
01:04:49,010 --> 01:04:53,097
[Frank] We had no live newscast
or active internet.
841
01:04:53,222 --> 01:04:56,475
We had to rely on the ground to tell us
what was going on in those early days.
842
01:04:56,601 --> 01:04:57,602
I called the ground,
843
01:04:57,727 --> 01:05:03,608
{\an8}and he began to describe the aircraft
crashing into the World Trade Center.
844
01:05:03,733 --> 01:05:06,152
{\an8}Shortly before I called,
the Pentagon had been hit.
845
01:05:06,277 --> 01:05:07,862
And then while we were talking,
846
01:05:07,987 --> 01:05:10,990
the plane had crashed in Pennsylvania,
and he told me about that.
847
01:05:11,073 --> 01:05:13,618
It was clear to me we were under attack.
848
01:05:15,536 --> 01:05:18,915
I looked at the map of the world
that we keep up on one of the laptops,
849
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,208
and I realized
that we were crossing Canada
850
01:05:21,334 --> 01:05:23,085
and that we would be
right over New York,
851
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:27,006
and I realized we were gonna be
over New England in a few seconds.
852
01:05:27,131 --> 01:05:29,884
So I signed off, raced around,
853
01:05:29,967 --> 01:05:32,845
found a video camera and a window
facing in the right direction,
854
01:05:32,929 --> 01:05:36,223
and as we crossed Maine,
I could look back on New York City.
855
01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:38,684
And of course the whole US
was clear of clouds that day,
856
01:05:38,809 --> 01:05:40,478
it was a gorgeous day,
857
01:05:40,603 --> 01:05:44,315
and I could clearly see a big column
of smoke rising out of Manhattan,
858
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,943
out over Long Island
and over the Atlantic.
859
01:05:47,068 --> 01:05:49,654
And I zoomed in with the video camera,
860
01:05:49,779 --> 01:05:54,241
and as I did, this big, grey cloud
enveloped southern Manhattan.
861
01:05:54,367 --> 01:05:57,495
It turned out later what I was seeing
was the second tower collapse.
862
01:05:57,620 --> 01:06:01,457
I told the guys, "90 minutes from now,
when we come back over the US,
863
01:06:01,540 --> 01:06:03,668
I want every camera we've got
pointed at the ground."
864
01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:07,254
As we went over Maine,
we could see New York City
865
01:06:07,380 --> 01:06:09,465
and the smoke from the fires.
866
01:06:09,590 --> 01:06:11,884
Our prayers and thoughts
go out to all the people there
867
01:06:12,009 --> 01:06:13,678
and everywhere else here.
868
01:06:13,803 --> 01:06:17,473
I'm looking up and down the east coast
to see if I can see anything else.
869
01:06:20,142 --> 01:06:22,353
[woman] Frank,
that's an accurate assessment.
870
01:06:22,979 --> 01:06:26,482
[Frank] All the contrails which normally
cover the country in a spider web
871
01:06:26,607 --> 01:06:27,650
had disappeared,
872
01:06:27,775 --> 01:06:29,652
because they had grounded
all the airplanes.
873
01:06:29,777 --> 01:06:33,614
That really brought it home that
this was a totally different world now.
874
01:06:36,492 --> 01:06:40,621
They had had to evacuate the federal
facility where our mission control was
875
01:06:40,746 --> 01:06:42,999
and move them
to an undisclosed location,
876
01:06:43,124 --> 01:06:45,918
which I still don't know where it was.
877
01:06:46,043 --> 01:06:48,004
So we were operating
with Moscow primarily,
878
01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:49,964
and they were
very supportive, sympathetic,
879
01:06:50,089 --> 01:06:52,550
and trying to give us
as much information as they could.
880
01:06:52,633 --> 01:06:55,052
Whenever one of their specials
would come on to talk to us
881
01:06:55,136 --> 01:06:58,347
about a system or an experiment
or whatever, they would frequently say,
882
01:06:58,472 --> 01:07:01,308
"Where's Frank?",
you know, "How's Frank doing?"
883
01:07:03,686 --> 01:07:06,105
It was very meaningful,
'cause I knew them all by name,
884
01:07:06,230 --> 01:07:09,191
and they would express their condolences
885
01:07:09,316 --> 01:07:11,485
and they were really sorry
for what happened.
886
01:07:11,610 --> 01:07:15,197
Interesting thing is, 94 Russians
also died in the World Trade Center,
887
01:07:15,322 --> 01:07:17,033
and we had no idea, at that time,
888
01:07:17,158 --> 01:07:20,619
how many from overseas were there
and lost their lives.
889
01:07:20,745 --> 01:07:23,122
The next day,
I got a call from TJ Creamer,
890
01:07:23,247 --> 01:07:25,541
who was my support astronaut
on the ground, and he said,
891
01:07:25,666 --> 01:07:27,626
"Frank, I've got some bad news."
892
01:07:27,752 --> 01:07:30,963
And it turned out that my classmate
from the Naval Academy,
893
01:07:31,088 --> 01:07:33,632
who was classmates with Shep and myself,
894
01:07:33,758 --> 01:07:36,052
was the captain
of American Airlines Flight 77
895
01:07:36,177 --> 01:07:38,262
that was crashed into the Pentagon.
896
01:07:38,387 --> 01:07:41,140
Chic was an F-4 pilot, like me,
he was an aerospace engineer,
897
01:07:41,223 --> 01:07:44,185
we had actually played in the drum
and bugle corps together for a while,
898
01:07:44,268 --> 01:07:45,436
so we were friends.
899
01:07:45,561 --> 01:07:49,607
And so he had died in that crash.
900
01:07:49,690 --> 01:07:51,567
I could only imagine
what it was like for him.
901
01:07:51,650 --> 01:07:53,986
I didn't find out much
until after I returned
902
01:07:54,111 --> 01:07:56,113
about what the particulars were
of that flight,
903
01:07:56,238 --> 01:07:59,366
but I felt sure he had fought
as much as he could.
904
01:08:00,367 --> 01:08:01,619
It really brought it home to me
905
01:08:01,702 --> 01:08:04,371
and it made it very personal
at that point.
906
01:08:04,830 --> 01:08:09,543
I would like to send a message
from the station down in memory of Chic
907
01:08:09,668 --> 01:08:12,546
and of all of our graduates who perished
908
01:08:12,671 --> 01:08:15,091
and of all the victims of this tragedy,
909
01:08:15,216 --> 01:08:18,052
something that has
never been done before from space.
910
01:08:18,177 --> 01:08:22,640
So I'd like to ask all of you to rise
for a moment of silence
911
01:08:22,765 --> 01:08:26,060
as we play something
from International Space Station Alpha.
912
01:08:27,478 --> 01:08:29,605
[plays "Last Post" on bugle]
913
01:08:50,251 --> 01:08:53,796
September 12th, 2001, 1934 hours.
914
01:08:53,921 --> 01:08:56,507
One day after the attacks of 9/11.
915
01:08:57,091 --> 01:08:59,927
Well, obviously the world changed today.
916
01:09:00,052 --> 01:09:01,887
What I say or do is very minor
917
01:09:02,012 --> 01:09:05,307
compared to the significance
of what happened to our country.
918
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:11,605
The most overwhelming feeling,
being where I am, is one of isolation.
919
01:09:11,730 --> 01:09:14,525
It's difficult to describe how it feels
to be the only American
920
01:09:14,650 --> 01:09:18,028
completely off the planet
at a time such as this.
921
01:09:18,154 --> 01:09:21,157
The feeling that I should be there
with all of you, dealing with this,
922
01:09:21,282 --> 01:09:23,492
helping in some way, is overwhelming.
923
01:09:24,827 --> 01:09:28,247
It's horrible to see smoke
pouring from wounds in your own country
924
01:09:28,372 --> 01:09:31,167
from such a fantastic vantage point.
925
01:09:31,292 --> 01:09:35,754
The dichotomy of being on a spacecraft
dedicated to improving life on the Earth
926
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:39,258
and watching life being destroyed
by such willful, terrible acts
927
01:09:39,383 --> 01:09:42,178
is jolting to the psyche,
no matter who you are.
928
01:09:42,261 --> 01:09:45,723
And the knowledge that everything
will be different than when we launched
929
01:09:45,848 --> 01:09:48,267
by the time we land
is a little disconcerting.
930
01:09:49,852 --> 01:09:53,898
I miss all of you very much.
I can't be with you there in person,
931
01:09:54,023 --> 01:09:56,901
and we have a long way to go
to complete our mission,
932
01:09:57,026 --> 01:10:00,821
but be certain that my heart is with you
and know you are in my prayers.
933
01:10:00,946 --> 01:10:02,489
Humbly, Frank.
934
01:10:39,109 --> 01:10:42,738
[woman] I grew up in a tiny little
village in the Italian Alps called Malé.
935
01:10:42,863 --> 01:10:44,240
Two thousand souls.
936
01:10:58,003 --> 01:11:00,589
Growing up, I had the fortune
937
01:11:00,714 --> 01:11:04,009
of having this beautiful starry sky
at night, you know.
938
01:11:04,134 --> 01:11:07,638
It was just this very personal
connection to the sky.
939
01:11:10,391 --> 01:11:14,436
This dream of flying to space,
become an astronaut,
940
01:11:14,561 --> 01:11:17,439
I think it arose
out of a combination of things,
941
01:11:17,564 --> 01:11:22,987
and it's very difficult to pinpoint
exactly what makes you fancy things
942
01:11:23,112 --> 01:11:24,989
in this world of childhood.
943
01:11:28,409 --> 01:11:29,952
[children laugh]
944
01:11:49,763 --> 01:11:51,056
{\an8}I'm Samantha Cristoforetti
945
01:11:51,181 --> 01:11:54,143
{\an8}and I'm an astronaut
with the European Space Agency.
946
01:11:59,857 --> 01:12:03,861
We had started out
with over 8,000 applicants,
947
01:12:03,986 --> 01:12:06,447
and then here we were,
after a year, only ten of us.
948
01:12:06,572 --> 01:12:09,158
Ten young Europeans
from different countries.
949
01:12:09,283 --> 01:12:11,243
At that point,
we were almost all in touch.
950
01:12:11,368 --> 01:12:13,287
There was going to be
a press conference,
951
01:12:13,412 --> 01:12:15,956
and the European Space Agency
was going to announce,
952
01:12:16,081 --> 01:12:19,084
"Here are our new astronauts."
953
01:12:19,209 --> 01:12:23,756
And two days before that, at nine o'clock
at night, we still had not heard.
954
01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:27,843
I mean, my level of tension
was way up there.
955
01:12:27,968 --> 01:12:31,055
I just felt
that I couldn't take it anymore.
956
01:12:31,180 --> 01:12:34,308
And then all of a sudden,
there was this email, and it's like,
957
01:12:34,433 --> 01:12:36,060
"Dear Miss Cristoforetti…"
958
01:12:36,185 --> 01:12:37,936
You just felt like
the universe had stopped
959
01:12:38,062 --> 01:12:41,231
and it turned back
and smiled at me at that time.
960
01:12:41,357 --> 01:12:45,235
The fact that you are selected
as an astronaut is huge, you know.
961
01:12:45,361 --> 01:12:48,364
You're not any more
one of the thousands, ten thousands,
962
01:12:48,489 --> 01:12:50,783
maybe millions of people
who dream of becoming astronauts.
963
01:12:50,908 --> 01:12:53,702
You actually are selected
to train as an astronaut.
964
01:12:53,827 --> 01:12:56,372
But then this new phase of your life comes
965
01:12:56,497 --> 01:12:58,916
when you're just waiting and hoping
966
01:12:59,041 --> 01:13:02,211
that this moment is going to come
and is going to come soon.
967
01:13:04,254 --> 01:13:06,382
One of the greatest memories I have
968
01:13:06,507 --> 01:13:11,512
from the time leading up
to my space flight is being in Baikonur.
969
01:13:11,637 --> 01:13:15,140
That's where we launched from.
And you go to Baikonur twice.
970
01:13:15,265 --> 01:13:17,476
You go to Baikonur
before your own launch,
971
01:13:17,601 --> 01:13:19,520
and you go to Baikonur
six months before,
972
01:13:19,645 --> 01:13:21,730
when you are actually the back-up crew.
973
01:13:21,855 --> 01:13:24,858
So, you are, in theory, ready to fly
instead of the prime crew
974
01:13:24,983 --> 01:13:26,735
if the prime crew has an issue.
975
01:13:26,860 --> 01:13:30,697
And we were down there,
Terry, Anton and myself,
976
01:13:30,823 --> 01:13:35,869
in May 2014, as the back-up crew,
and that was the most wonderful time.
977
01:13:35,994 --> 01:13:38,497
We are usually allowed to go out
and have a jog
978
01:13:38,622 --> 01:13:40,541
with other people
who are in quarantine with us.
979
01:13:40,666 --> 01:13:44,711
We kind of bend the rules because
we'd just go out without any escort.
980
01:13:44,837 --> 01:13:48,298
And basically what I wanted to do,
I had a bottle with me,
981
01:13:48,424 --> 01:13:52,094
and I had put in
a picture of the three of us.
982
01:13:52,219 --> 01:13:55,222
We had signed thousands
of those pictures in the days before,
983
01:13:55,347 --> 01:13:57,349
and so I had grabbed one
with our signature,
984
01:13:57,474 --> 01:14:01,562
and I had added an email address
that I had just done for that purpose.
985
01:14:01,687 --> 01:14:03,730
And I thought,
"We'll just throw it in the river
986
01:14:03,814 --> 01:14:06,525
and then maybe
some mysterious inhabitant of the steppe
987
01:14:06,650 --> 01:14:08,110
one day will write back to us."
988
01:14:08,777 --> 01:14:10,112
We are about to come back
989
01:14:10,237 --> 01:14:15,367
and we realize a little bit upstream
there are, like, these wild horses,
990
01:14:15,492 --> 01:14:16,869
such a beautiful image.
991
01:14:16,994 --> 01:14:21,123
There were probably, maybe
20, 30 of those, and they had come,
992
01:14:21,248 --> 01:14:23,375
there were no people,
just the wild horses,
993
01:14:23,500 --> 01:14:25,210
and they had come to drink at the river.
994
01:14:25,335 --> 01:14:29,590
And it was such a beautiful,
powerful scene, you know.
995
01:14:29,715 --> 01:14:34,261
And for me it was just something
that brought me into the emotional mood
996
01:14:34,386 --> 01:14:37,723
of then watching the launch
in the night.
997
01:14:45,898 --> 01:14:47,024
[man] And lift-off.
998
01:14:47,149 --> 01:14:51,028
The international crew on their way
to the International Space Station.
999
01:14:53,238 --> 01:14:54,364
Right now, looking good.
1000
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:59,244
First stage performance. The Soyuz
delivering 930,000 pounds of thrust.
1001
01:14:59,369 --> 01:15:01,955
That's four boosters
and single core and engine.
1002
01:15:02,414 --> 01:15:04,416
[continues indistinctly]
1003
01:15:19,973 --> 01:15:21,517
We like to say in the space business,
1004
01:15:21,642 --> 01:15:23,352
you don't know
that you're going to space
1005
01:15:23,435 --> 01:15:27,523
until, you know, that rocket that you're
sitting on is actually taking off.
1006
01:15:28,732 --> 01:15:30,400
[commentator] TMA-15M.
1007
01:15:30,526 --> 01:15:34,279
Three new crew members headed
to the International Space Station,
1008
01:15:34,404 --> 01:15:38,283
Anton Shkaplerov,
Samantha Cristoforetti and Terry Virts,
1009
01:15:38,408 --> 01:15:43,038
on their way to a six-month voyage
aboard the International Space Station.
1010
01:15:43,163 --> 01:15:45,791
["Bright Horses" playing]
1011
01:15:46,625 --> 01:15:50,087
♪ The bright horses have broken free
From the fields ♪
1012
01:15:50,170 --> 01:15:52,256
[commentator]
A minute, ten seconds into flight,
1013
01:15:52,381 --> 01:15:54,841
traveling about 1,100 miles per hour.
1014
01:15:54,967 --> 01:16:00,055
♪ They are horses of love
Their manes full of fire ♪
1015
01:16:03,141 --> 01:16:08,647
♪ They are parting the cities
Those bright burning horses ♪
1016
01:16:29,710 --> 01:16:33,672
♪ Oh ♪
1017
01:16:35,674 --> 01:16:39,469
♪ Oh ♪
1018
01:16:41,972 --> 01:16:44,641
[Samantha] When you're
sitting inside the Soyuz,
1019
01:16:44,766 --> 01:16:46,643
and you're approaching Space Station,
1020
01:16:46,768 --> 01:16:48,812
you do not really see it.
1021
01:16:48,937 --> 01:16:54,026
What you see is like
a black and white image on the camera.
1022
01:16:54,151 --> 01:16:56,320
I mean, there's windows to the sides,
1023
01:16:56,445 --> 01:16:59,781
but you basically will not see
Space Station as you approach.
1024
01:16:59,906 --> 01:17:00,949
And that was my case.
1025
01:17:01,074 --> 01:17:04,161
However, when you get
to around 40, 50 meters out,
1026
01:17:04,286 --> 01:17:07,748
if you look out to the side,
you will start to catch a glimpse of it.
1027
01:17:09,750 --> 01:17:13,837
And here are like the solar panels
of the ISS, of the space station,
1028
01:17:13,962 --> 01:17:15,130
which are just gigantic,
1029
01:17:15,255 --> 01:17:17,591
which, of course,
I know in my mind how big they are,
1030
01:17:17,716 --> 01:17:21,386
but I've never actually seen them,
so, you know, this huge size.
1031
01:17:22,137 --> 01:17:25,807
But then, on top of that,
at that moment of transition,
1032
01:17:25,932 --> 01:17:29,936
and it's just really a few seconds
between daylight and night,
1033
01:17:30,062 --> 01:17:33,106
the sun is basically lying
very low on the horizon
1034
01:17:33,231 --> 01:17:35,359
and it's just this spot of orange,
1035
01:17:35,484 --> 01:17:40,405
and the light that comes in that moment
is this very bright orange light.
1036
01:17:44,493 --> 01:17:45,619
It's so overwhelming.
1037
01:17:45,744 --> 01:17:48,872
I had this feeling they were, like,
burning, they were like in flames.
1038
01:17:49,498 --> 01:17:50,957
[Samantha gasps] Oh, my God.
1039
01:17:51,083 --> 01:17:52,334
[man speaks in Russian]
1040
01:17:53,710 --> 01:17:56,588
I'm going, "Oh, my God, oh, my God."
1041
01:17:56,713 --> 01:17:59,007
And then of course
you hear Anton, my commander,
1042
01:17:59,132 --> 01:18:03,011
he's going like [speaks Russian]
which means, "Be quiet, be quiet."
1043
01:18:03,136 --> 01:18:07,557
Whatever I say is heard on the Earth,
you know, all the control centers.
1044
01:18:09,893 --> 01:18:13,271
It's not my proudest moment
from a professional point of view.
1045
01:18:13,397 --> 01:18:17,359
On the other hand, I'm also very happy
that it happened at that moment
1046
01:18:17,484 --> 01:18:20,946
because it made it so special,
the arrival to Space Station.
1047
01:18:21,947 --> 01:18:23,824
[man speaks in Russian]
1048
01:18:25,659 --> 01:18:27,119
[woman speaks in Russian]
1049
01:18:29,663 --> 01:18:31,206
[applause]
1050
01:18:43,218 --> 01:18:45,595
[Samantha] Actually, the moment
when we opened the hatch
1051
01:18:45,721 --> 01:18:47,264
and I floated into Space Station,
1052
01:18:47,347 --> 01:18:49,224
that was a moment of sheer happiness.
1053
01:18:49,349 --> 01:18:53,019
You open the hatch,
there's people out there waiting for you
1054
01:18:53,145 --> 01:18:56,398
who are welcoming you
into this new place and this new life,
1055
01:18:56,523 --> 01:18:59,067
and in a way
it felt like a new birth, you know,
1056
01:18:59,192 --> 01:19:03,071
and it was
incredibly, incredibly intense.
1057
01:19:03,196 --> 01:19:07,200
It's the end of all that preparation
and that initial journey,
1058
01:19:07,325 --> 01:19:09,786
and it's the beginning
of this experience
1059
01:19:09,911 --> 01:19:12,122
that I had looked forward to
for so long.
1060
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:26,261
If you imagine our view,
from the space station, of the planet
1061
01:19:26,386 --> 01:19:32,392
as a show that planet Earth
puts on scene for us,
1062
01:19:32,517 --> 01:19:34,060
it's mute, it has no sound.
1063
01:19:34,186 --> 01:19:38,982
It's just an incredibly powerful
visual spectacle.
1064
01:19:40,776 --> 01:19:43,570
Just an incredibly beautiful view
when it's alive
1065
01:19:43,695 --> 01:19:44,988
because it changes all the time
1066
01:19:45,113 --> 01:19:47,574
and there's always something new
to discover.
1067
01:20:36,373 --> 01:20:38,124
[man] Columbia-Houston, comm check.
1068
01:20:41,545 --> 01:20:43,964
{\an8}Columbia-Houston, UHF comm check.
1069
01:20:45,799 --> 01:20:48,760
Columbia-Houston, UHF comm check.
1070
01:20:55,392 --> 01:20:58,353
[man 2] Columbia out of communications
at present with Mission Control.
1071
01:20:58,478 --> 01:21:00,438
Flight controllers
are continuing to stand by
1072
01:21:00,564 --> 01:21:03,108
{\an8}to regain communications
with the spacecraft.
1073
01:21:03,900 --> 01:21:06,236
{\an8}-[man 3] Flight decks.
-[man] Go ahead, Max.
1074
01:21:06,361 --> 01:21:10,824
[man 3] FYI, I've just lost
four separate temperature transducers
1075
01:21:10,949 --> 01:21:14,494
on the left side of the vehicle,
the hydraulic return temperatures.
1076
01:21:14,619 --> 01:21:19,708
We've also lost
the nose-gear down talkback
1077
01:21:19,833 --> 01:21:21,918
and the right main-gear down talkback.
1078
01:21:26,423 --> 01:21:28,800
[man] Columbia-Houston, comm check.
1079
01:21:31,469 --> 01:21:34,514
CC flight. CC flight.
1080
01:21:34,598 --> 01:21:36,349
-[man 3] What did you say?
-Lock the doors.
1081
01:21:36,474 --> 01:21:37,475
[man 3] Copy.
1082
01:21:43,565 --> 01:21:47,777
My name is Ken Bowersox.
I was the commander on Expedition 6.
1083
01:21:57,621 --> 01:22:00,373
[man on radio] Astronaut John Glenn
of New Concord, Ohio.
1084
01:22:00,498 --> 01:22:02,292
Lieutenant-Colonel, United States…
1085
01:22:02,417 --> 01:22:06,212
[Ken] I decided I wanted to be
an astronaut when I was about seven.
1086
01:22:06,338 --> 01:22:08,673
I was in a car with my dad,
1087
01:22:08,798 --> 01:22:12,636
and on the radio there was a story
about John Glenn orbiting the Earth.
1088
01:22:12,761 --> 01:22:15,555
And I asked my dad what that meant,
and he told me, and I said,
1089
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:18,308
"Oh, I think that's what I wanna do
when I grow up."
1090
01:22:19,643 --> 01:22:21,394
[commentator]
Our first view of Ken Bowersox
1091
01:22:21,519 --> 01:22:23,438
outside the hatch to the Quest Airlock
1092
01:22:23,563 --> 01:22:24,981
as the International Space Station
1093
01:22:25,106 --> 01:22:27,484
skirts just to the east
of Rio de Janeiro.
1094
01:22:27,567 --> 01:22:30,946
♪ Wherever you're going, I'm going ♪
1095
01:22:31,029 --> 01:22:36,159
♪ I'm going your way ♪
1096
01:22:36,326 --> 01:22:39,245
[Ken] Every Saturday morning
was clean-up time,
1097
01:22:39,371 --> 01:22:43,249
where we'd grab towels,
wipe down the handrails and vacuum.
1098
01:22:44,376 --> 01:22:47,754
We had a Saturday morning
teleconference scheduled.
1099
01:22:48,588 --> 01:22:51,383
We went in to start the teleconference
1100
01:22:51,508 --> 01:22:55,345
{\an8}and the folks in Mission Control
asked us to just stand by.
1101
01:22:57,263 --> 01:22:59,391
{\an8}It was usual that,
because it was Saturday morning,
1102
01:22:59,516 --> 01:23:01,893
{\an8}the folks in Houston wanted
to get that teleconference over
1103
01:23:01,977 --> 01:23:04,938
{\an8}as quickly as possible 'cause some
people wanted to go home, right?
1104
01:23:05,063 --> 01:23:07,649
So for them to ask us to wait
was a little bit different.
1105
01:23:10,610 --> 01:23:12,988
The center director
of Johnson Space Center came on
1106
01:23:13,113 --> 01:23:16,783
and told us
that Columbia had been lost on entry.
1107
01:23:42,100 --> 01:23:45,145
There was a lot of different meanings
to that for us.
1108
01:23:45,270 --> 01:23:48,940
The first was, "Well, what's happened
to our friends who are on Columbia?"
1109
01:23:49,149 --> 01:23:52,861
{\an8}'Cause we knew those folks,
we worked with them in the office,
1110
01:23:52,986 --> 01:23:54,612
{\an8}would fly with them in the T-38s,
1111
01:23:54,738 --> 01:23:57,782
sat in meetings with them,
talked to them in the hallways.
1112
01:23:57,907 --> 01:24:00,618
So the first thing was,
"What's happened to them?" you know.
1113
01:24:00,744 --> 01:24:03,204
Is there any chance
that they made it through?
1114
01:24:04,289 --> 01:24:08,001
{\an8}Folks on the ground have been real good
about reducing our schedule
1115
01:24:08,126 --> 01:24:10,628
{\an8}and we've had time
to grieve our friends.
1116
01:24:10,754 --> 01:24:12,255
{\an8}And that was very important.
1117
01:24:12,338 --> 01:24:15,216
{\an8}When you're up here this long,
you can't just bottle up your emotions
1118
01:24:15,341 --> 01:24:16,676
and focus all the time.
1119
01:24:16,801 --> 01:24:20,472
It's important for us to acknowledge
that the people on STS-107
1120
01:24:20,597 --> 01:24:23,266
were our friends,
that we had a connection with them,
1121
01:24:23,391 --> 01:24:25,268
and that we feel their loss.
1122
01:24:25,393 --> 01:24:29,606
The next impact to us was, "Well,
what does that mean for us to come home?"
1123
01:24:32,108 --> 01:24:34,527
Since the space shuttles
were under review,
1124
01:24:34,652 --> 01:24:37,405
we had to decide
when it would be safe to fly one again
1125
01:24:37,530 --> 01:24:40,283
and how to fly it safely.
1126
01:24:40,408 --> 01:24:43,161
The decision was made for us
to come home a different way,
1127
01:24:43,286 --> 01:24:46,539
to come home in a Soyuz spacecraft.
1128
01:24:46,664 --> 01:24:50,335
So we're packing up gear
to be returned home aboard shuttles
1129
01:24:50,460 --> 01:24:51,878
when they start flying again.
1130
01:24:52,003 --> 01:24:56,633
We'll have some refresher training to do
over the next month and a half or so.
1131
01:24:56,758 --> 01:24:58,426
My family spent most of their time
1132
01:24:58,551 --> 01:25:01,554
worrying about the people
that were affected on the ground,
1133
01:25:01,679 --> 01:25:05,809
the effect on the spouses
for the crew of Columbia.
1134
01:25:05,934 --> 01:25:09,145
But they also had a lot of inquiries
from different people
1135
01:25:09,270 --> 01:25:13,274
wanting to know how they felt
with their husbands up in space,
1136
01:25:13,399 --> 01:25:15,360
knowing that it was a risky business.
1137
01:25:15,485 --> 01:25:18,071
Everybody wanted to know
what we thought about the risk.
1138
01:25:18,196 --> 01:25:22,117
Let me start by sort of comparing
what a Soyuz flight is like
1139
01:25:22,242 --> 01:25:25,453
compared to a return in a space shuttle.
1140
01:25:25,578 --> 01:25:28,832
The space shuttle is a lot more
like flying on an airliner,
1141
01:25:28,957 --> 01:25:33,002
and the return from space is
very similar to flying on an airliner,
1142
01:25:33,128 --> 01:25:34,546
except you go from being weightless
1143
01:25:34,671 --> 01:25:38,800
to having your perceived weight be maybe
one and a half times your normal weight.
1144
01:25:38,925 --> 01:25:43,054
And then the final approach
is like a steep glide in an airliner
1145
01:25:43,138 --> 01:25:44,472
and you touch down on a runway.
1146
01:25:44,556 --> 01:25:48,810
It feels very much like any touchdown
from an international flight.
1147
01:25:51,646 --> 01:25:56,693
On a Soyuz, you get in, it's smaller,
everything is more compact.
1148
01:25:56,818 --> 01:25:59,028
Instead of sitting up,
like you would on an airliner,
1149
01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:02,657
you're kind of laying on your back,
and it's a much quicker trip home.
1150
01:26:02,782 --> 01:26:04,784
It's only a few hours back to Earth
1151
01:26:04,909 --> 01:26:08,329
rather than a day and a half or two
in a space shuttle.
1152
01:26:08,454 --> 01:26:10,415
It's a little bit more
like a carnival ride.
1153
01:26:11,833 --> 01:26:16,379
[man] And Expedition 6
now officially on its way back home,
1154
01:26:16,504 --> 01:26:19,841
with landing a little more
than three hours from now.
1155
01:26:22,135 --> 01:26:23,803
[Ken] The flight gets most interesting
1156
01:26:23,928 --> 01:26:26,306
when you start to get down
into the atmosphere.
1157
01:26:27,515 --> 01:26:30,185
First thing you see
is some glowing light
1158
01:26:30,310 --> 01:26:33,438
coming off the side of the capsule
and any other parts around it.
1159
01:26:33,563 --> 01:26:35,815
You see a bright orange glow
outside the windows.
1160
01:26:35,940 --> 01:26:39,652
You might see little droplets running
along the window that look like water
1161
01:26:39,777 --> 01:26:42,947
but are really something melted
on the spacecraft.
1162
01:26:43,072 --> 01:26:45,074
[man] At this point,
the crew should be feeling
1163
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:48,161
the maximum G-load on the re-entry.
1164
01:26:48,286 --> 01:26:50,163
[man speaks in Russian]
1165
01:26:52,957 --> 01:26:57,253
We realized that we were having
an off-nominal type of entry
1166
01:26:57,378 --> 01:26:58,880
called a ballistic descent.
1167
01:27:00,590 --> 01:27:02,884
Once you reach
the ballistic descent mode,
1168
01:27:03,009 --> 01:27:06,846
there's not a lot for the crew
to interact with on the spacecraft,
1169
01:27:06,971 --> 01:27:10,058
and so you have some spare moments
to think about what you're doing
1170
01:27:10,183 --> 01:27:13,811
and to realize how little control
you have over the situation,
1171
01:27:13,937 --> 01:27:16,189
how you're trusting the engineers
who designed
1172
01:27:16,314 --> 01:27:19,359
and the technicians
who built that spacecraft,
1173
01:27:19,484 --> 01:27:22,528
and how everything's gotta work
if you're gonna survive.
1174
01:27:38,753 --> 01:27:42,966
{\an8}I'm in the helicopter with the chief
of the astronaut office, Bob Cabana,
1175
01:27:43,049 --> 01:27:46,010
and they say, "We're in touch
with the crew. We're hearing the crew."
1176
01:27:46,094 --> 01:27:47,762
But it was a very faint call.
1177
01:27:50,139 --> 01:27:52,392
I could tell my boss
was really, really worried.
1178
01:27:52,475 --> 01:27:54,811
He said, "Why is the signal faint?
Can they hear them?"
1179
01:27:54,894 --> 01:27:56,104
I said, "They can't hear them.
1180
01:27:56,229 --> 01:27:58,564
They heard them on the radio
and then it disappeared."
1181
01:27:59,148 --> 01:28:01,734
Bob Cabana was like,
"Oh, no, we've lost another crew."
1182
01:28:06,656 --> 01:28:08,992
They said, "They did a ballistic entry."
1183
01:28:09,117 --> 01:28:13,246
To mean they're 400 kilometers away,
off-course,
1184
01:28:13,371 --> 01:28:15,206
and not in the right place,
not where we are.
1185
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:26,592
When the parachutes come out, you get
rocked all around, shaken, rotated.
1186
01:28:26,718 --> 01:28:28,219
It feels pretty violent.
1187
01:28:28,344 --> 01:28:31,264
Again, that's where it feels
most like a carnival ride.
1188
01:28:33,558 --> 01:28:35,018
And then it gets peaceful,
1189
01:28:35,143 --> 01:28:38,229
and you coast and coast and coast down
underneath the parachutes.
1190
01:28:45,653 --> 01:28:48,698
There's sort of a big bang
as you hit the ground.
1191
01:28:48,823 --> 01:28:50,783
It feels like a car collision.
1192
01:28:51,993 --> 01:28:55,163
The vehicle gets drug a little bit
by the parachute if you have any wind,
1193
01:28:55,246 --> 01:28:59,125
and that jostles the crew around a bit,
and then everything gets quiet.
1194
01:29:00,543 --> 01:29:02,170
Absolutely quiet.
1195
01:29:04,505 --> 01:29:06,424
You start to smell the smoke
from the rockets.
1196
01:29:06,507 --> 01:29:08,468
You smell the grass outside.
1197
01:29:08,593 --> 01:29:09,635
You look out the window
1198
01:29:09,761 --> 01:29:13,222
and you can see the brown of the dirt
and the green of the grass,
1199
01:29:13,348 --> 01:29:15,683
and you know you're back on Earth.
1200
01:29:17,435 --> 01:29:20,229
We sat there
trying to talk to people on the radio,
1201
01:29:20,313 --> 01:29:21,814
and we weren't able to reach anybody.
1202
01:29:21,898 --> 01:29:24,650
After being there about 30 minutes,
we decided we should get out,
1203
01:29:24,734 --> 01:29:26,611
and Nikolai reached up
and opened the hatch
1204
01:29:26,694 --> 01:29:28,071
and crawled out of the spacecraft,
1205
01:29:28,154 --> 01:29:31,199
and I followed him after that,
and Don came third.
1206
01:29:34,327 --> 01:29:38,164
[Mike] We finally get there
after six hours to the landing site.
1207
01:29:38,289 --> 01:29:45,296
I see Ken and Nikolai and Don
sitting outside of the Soyuz.
1208
01:29:45,421 --> 01:29:49,258
There are little yellow buttercups
and daisies out there,
1209
01:29:49,383 --> 01:29:51,052
and it's just rolling plains.
1210
01:29:51,177 --> 01:29:53,805
I think there are wild horses out there
on that plain.
1211
01:29:53,930 --> 01:29:58,935
I said, "Well, how are you feeling?"
"We feel really tired, really weak."
1212
01:29:59,060 --> 01:30:01,270
I said, "What were the G's you had
during the entry?"
1213
01:30:01,395 --> 01:30:03,523
"Eight G's!" I said, "Really?"
1214
01:30:03,648 --> 01:30:07,110
So we kind of get them
into the helicopter.
1215
01:30:07,235 --> 01:30:08,528
And Don wants to lie down.
1216
01:30:08,611 --> 01:30:10,905
So he's lying down on the floor.
There's not much room.
1217
01:30:10,988 --> 01:30:13,783
Ken's kind of propped up
against a fuel tank in this helicopter,
1218
01:30:13,866 --> 01:30:15,868
no straps, nothing like that.
1219
01:30:15,993 --> 01:30:21,332
And he says, "Don't forget that."
I go, "What?" He says, "That big sack."
1220
01:30:21,457 --> 01:30:24,377
He said, "We didn't know if we were ever
gonna get our stuff back.
1221
01:30:24,502 --> 01:30:27,839
So we've got all of Don's films
and camera magazines."
1222
01:30:27,964 --> 01:30:33,803
And I picked it up and it was like
30, 40 pounds, you know, 20 kilos.
1223
01:30:33,928 --> 01:30:36,806
I said, "How did you put this
in the Soyuz?"
1224
01:30:38,349 --> 01:30:42,395
And Ken said, "Don had it on his lap."
1225
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:45,481
Eight G's. Eight gravities.
1226
01:30:45,606 --> 01:30:51,821
Multiply that times 20 kilos,
that's 160 kilos on Don's chest.
1227
01:30:51,946 --> 01:30:56,159
I said, "You've had a… How could you
have put that on Don's chest?"
1228
01:30:56,284 --> 01:30:59,996
So, anyway, poor Don was kind of looking
a bit worse for wear
1229
01:31:00,121 --> 01:31:02,415
from that journey back to Earth.
1230
01:31:02,874 --> 01:31:06,460
[groans] I wave to the camera.
1231
01:31:07,753 --> 01:31:10,423
[Ken] We knew it was coming,
and so we were prepared for the G's.
1232
01:31:10,548 --> 01:31:12,842
In fact, at the point
where we saw it coming, we said,
1233
01:31:12,967 --> 01:31:15,219
"Okay, guys, let's get strapped down
in your seats,
1234
01:31:15,303 --> 01:31:17,597
'cause it's about to get fun, fast."
1235
01:31:17,722 --> 01:31:21,559
In fact, Nikolai was great.
He says, "This is gonna be fun."
1236
01:31:21,684 --> 01:31:23,144
-He was great.
-Nikolai said that?
1237
01:31:23,269 --> 01:31:24,979
He was like a cheerleader
all the way down,
1238
01:31:25,104 --> 01:31:26,856
and we're all straining against the G.
1239
01:31:26,939 --> 01:31:29,525
[grunts]
1240
01:31:29,650 --> 01:31:32,904
It was… quite an experience.
1241
01:31:33,029 --> 01:31:34,363
[laughter]
1242
01:31:34,488 --> 01:31:37,950
It's great that we had a chance
to ride in a vehicle
1243
01:31:38,075 --> 01:31:40,703
that was on its first flight
into the atmosphere.
1244
01:31:40,828 --> 01:31:43,080
And so I feel really lucky.
1245
01:31:43,873 --> 01:31:46,083
-[interviewer] Well, there we are.
-That's two.
1246
01:31:46,209 --> 01:31:47,210
[interviewer laughs]
1247
01:31:47,335 --> 01:31:52,715
{\an8}Annie Bowersox. Annie, it's a great day.
The crew is home safe and sound.
1248
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:54,300
{\an8}Very successful landing.
1249
01:31:54,425 --> 01:31:57,637
{\an8}How does Ken look?
How excited is he to be back?
1250
01:31:57,762 --> 01:31:58,804
He looks great.
1251
01:31:58,930 --> 01:32:02,892
He looks exactly the same
as when he left, maybe a little thinner.
1252
01:32:03,017 --> 01:32:06,854
And when I first saw him, it was like
the six months had just gone away.
1253
01:32:06,979 --> 01:32:09,690
He's eager to see our kids
when we get back to Houston
1254
01:32:09,815 --> 01:32:14,862
and we're really excited about that.
The boys are dying to see him.
1255
01:32:14,987 --> 01:32:18,699
What do you consider to be
the most important contribution,
1256
01:32:18,824 --> 01:32:22,161
legacy, the living history,
of Expedition 6?
1257
01:32:22,286 --> 01:32:24,914
What do you think
it will be most remembered for?
1258
01:32:25,039 --> 01:32:26,791
I think their flight showed
1259
01:32:26,916 --> 01:32:32,630
what an incredible team NASA has become
with their partners.
1260
01:32:32,755 --> 01:32:35,341
So much of this flight
was not as planned,
1261
01:32:35,466 --> 01:32:38,511
and it's just amazing
and it just clicked.
1262
01:32:38,636 --> 01:32:40,096
It's a great team.
1263
01:32:40,221 --> 01:32:43,224
["The Star-Spangled Banner" plays]
1264
01:33:03,869 --> 01:33:06,205
[Barack Obama] Last month,
we launched a new spacecraft
1265
01:33:06,330 --> 01:33:07,957
as part of a re-energized space program
1266
01:33:08,082 --> 01:33:10,710
that will send
American astronauts to Mars.
1267
01:33:10,835 --> 01:33:14,588
And in two months,
to prepare us for those missions,
1268
01:33:14,714 --> 01:33:19,051
Scott Kelly will begin
a year-long stay in space.
1269
01:33:19,176 --> 01:33:22,763
So, good luck, Captain.
Make sure to Instagram it.
1270
01:33:24,473 --> 01:33:25,891
We're proud of you.
1271
01:33:47,913 --> 01:33:49,040
[Scott] I thought, you know,
1272
01:33:49,123 --> 01:33:52,209
spending a year in space
is gonna be really challenging
1273
01:33:52,335 --> 01:33:54,712
psychologically and emotionally.
1274
01:33:57,715 --> 01:33:59,717
Eventually, I warmed up to the idea.
1275
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:02,053
They had a selection process
and an interview.
1276
01:34:02,136 --> 01:34:04,096
It was interesting,
the very last question was,
1277
01:34:04,180 --> 01:34:07,808
"So, if you could get
the year-long space mission
1278
01:34:07,933 --> 01:34:10,144
or you could be
the chief of the astronaut office,
1279
01:34:10,227 --> 01:34:11,312
which would you prefer?"
1280
01:34:11,437 --> 01:34:14,398
And I said immediately,
I said, "Chief of the astronaut office."
1281
01:34:14,523 --> 01:34:17,902
And, like, two weeks later
somebody else got that job,
1282
01:34:18,027 --> 01:34:20,613
and I got assigned
to this year-long flight.
1283
01:34:24,158 --> 01:34:27,745
From the time you leave the United States
for a Russian Soyuz launch,
1284
01:34:27,870 --> 01:34:30,664
it's this whole process
of different traditions.
1285
01:34:30,790 --> 01:34:33,000
You have to visit the Kremlin.
1286
01:34:33,125 --> 01:34:35,378
You have to go to pay respects
1287
01:34:35,503 --> 01:34:40,299
to the cosmonauts in the Russian
and Soviet space program.
1288
01:34:40,424 --> 01:34:42,510
You had to look at the bell
and the cannon,
1289
01:34:42,635 --> 01:34:45,679
because previous crew members
have done that.
1290
01:34:46,555 --> 01:34:49,350
And then, a couple weeks before,
you fly down to Baikonur
1291
01:34:49,475 --> 01:34:52,937
and you go through similar
kind of traditions and preparations.
1292
01:34:53,062 --> 01:34:55,272
It's a, you know, iconic place.
1293
01:34:58,275 --> 01:35:00,653
[applause]
1294
01:35:01,737 --> 01:35:05,366
[woman] Hey, Scott, I know
you have a brother and you are twins.
1295
01:35:05,491 --> 01:35:11,705
Is it really difficult
not to see each other for one year?
1296
01:35:11,831 --> 01:35:13,290
[Scott] No, it's not.
1297
01:35:13,416 --> 01:35:15,418
[laughter]
1298
01:35:17,837 --> 01:35:19,004
[woman] Thank you.
1299
01:35:21,257 --> 01:35:22,925
[Scott] Heading to the launch pad,
1300
01:35:23,050 --> 01:35:27,096
the van stops in the same spot
that Yuri Gagarin stopped
1301
01:35:27,221 --> 01:35:29,765
and got out and peed on the tire.
1302
01:35:29,890 --> 01:35:33,352
So we have to get out,
undo our spacesuit,
1303
01:35:33,477 --> 01:35:36,397
pee on the tire, get back in,
1304
01:35:36,522 --> 01:35:39,692
button your spacesuit up,
and keep heading to the rocket.
1305
01:35:40,693 --> 01:35:44,697
You always get a blessing
from a Russian Orthodox priest,
1306
01:35:44,822 --> 01:35:47,741
which is generally
pretty cold water in your face.
1307
01:35:51,495 --> 01:35:53,956
'Cause they're not your superstitions
and traditions,
1308
01:35:54,081 --> 01:35:55,249
they seem a little bit odd,
1309
01:35:55,374 --> 01:35:59,420
but, yeah,
one of their big cultural things
1310
01:35:59,545 --> 01:36:02,256
is if their friends are going on a trip,
1311
01:36:02,381 --> 01:36:04,925
then they have to be there
to say goodbye,
1312
01:36:05,050 --> 01:36:08,262
even if that's at a base
of a fully fueled rocket.
1313
01:36:08,387 --> 01:36:10,055
There's like a hundred people up there
1314
01:36:10,181 --> 01:36:12,391
and you're just trying
to get through this crowd.
1315
01:36:12,475 --> 01:36:14,435
It's like madness. Crazy.
1316
01:36:14,518 --> 01:36:16,645
It's like a big party
at the base of the rocket.
1317
01:36:16,770 --> 01:36:21,317
There's smokers out there.
I've seen them. Yeah.
1318
01:36:24,236 --> 01:36:25,237
When you're in the Soyuz,
1319
01:36:25,362 --> 01:36:28,032
there's some dead time
where you don't have much to do.
1320
01:36:28,157 --> 01:36:30,159
So to help you pass the time,
1321
01:36:30,284 --> 01:36:34,705
the control center will pipe music
into the capsule.
1322
01:36:34,830 --> 01:36:36,582
So the crew picks out some songs.
1323
01:36:36,707 --> 01:36:40,920
I had a Bruce Springsteen song
and a Coldplay song.
1324
01:36:41,045 --> 01:36:43,964
I can tell you, I didn't pick
Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly."
1325
01:36:44,089 --> 01:36:45,424
One of the cosmonauts did.
1326
01:36:45,549 --> 01:36:48,469
I like the song,
it's a really, really good song,
1327
01:36:48,552 --> 01:36:50,846
but it doesn't seem quite appropriate
to have it playing
1328
01:36:50,971 --> 01:36:54,892
when you're sitting on basically a bomb
of liquid oxygen and liquid kerosene
1329
01:36:55,017 --> 01:36:58,187
that's designed to explode
underneath you.
1330
01:36:58,270 --> 01:36:59,522
["Killing Me Softly" playing]
1331
01:36:59,605 --> 01:37:03,234
♪ Strumming my pain with his fingers ♪
1332
01:37:03,317 --> 01:37:06,904
♪ Singing my life with his words ♪
1333
01:37:07,321 --> 01:37:10,449
♪ Killing me softly with his song ♪
1334
01:37:10,533 --> 01:37:14,411
♪ Killing me softly with his song ♪
1335
01:37:14,495 --> 01:37:18,666
♪ Telling my whole life with his words ♪
1336
01:37:18,749 --> 01:37:21,919
♪ Killing me softly ♪
1337
01:37:23,045 --> 01:37:27,091
♪ With his song ♪
1338
01:37:30,511 --> 01:37:33,806
[Scott] One of my kids,
I think it was, yeah, my youngest,
1339
01:37:33,931 --> 01:37:37,893
when I said,
"I'm going to the year-long mission,"
1340
01:37:38,018 --> 01:37:42,022
the reaction I got was, like,
"That's awesome!"
1341
01:37:42,147 --> 01:37:44,692
And when Misha called his wife
1342
01:37:44,817 --> 01:37:50,030
and said that he was gonna go
to space for a year, she started crying.
1343
01:37:50,155 --> 01:37:51,156
[chuckles]
1344
01:37:51,282 --> 01:37:55,035
So my family was excited.
Maybe that says something about me.
1345
01:37:55,160 --> 01:37:58,205
They were, like, excited
to get rid of me for a year.
1346
01:37:58,330 --> 01:37:59,873
"Can you go for two?"
1347
01:37:59,999 --> 01:38:01,000
[chuckles]
1348
01:38:10,759 --> 01:38:14,346
I previously had six months in space,
1349
01:38:14,471 --> 01:38:18,642
and I can remember six months
being a really long time to be anywhere
1350
01:38:18,767 --> 01:38:20,644
where you can't go home,
and you're floating,
1351
01:38:20,769 --> 01:38:25,190
and, you know, there's just a level
of uncomfortableness
1352
01:38:25,316 --> 01:38:27,443
about being in space for a long time.
1353
01:38:27,568 --> 01:38:30,487
But like most things,
as you get further away from them,
1354
01:38:30,613 --> 01:38:32,698
you remember the great things about it
1355
01:38:32,823 --> 01:38:35,701
and you forget the hardship
or the stuff that's hard.
1356
01:38:42,541 --> 01:38:45,294
[commentator] Scott Kelly,
Mikhail Kornienko, and Gennady Padalka,
1357
01:38:45,419 --> 01:38:50,049
the all-time record holder
for time in space among all of humanity,
1358
01:38:50,174 --> 01:38:53,552
launching flawlessly
and arriving just six hours later.
1359
01:38:53,677 --> 01:38:54,678
They made their way in
1360
01:38:54,803 --> 01:38:59,224
and were welcomed by the current
Expedition 43 crew on board,
1361
01:38:59,350 --> 01:39:02,978
Terry Virts, Samantha Cristoforetti
and Anton Shkaplerov,
1362
01:39:03,103 --> 01:39:05,731
who are already
several months into their mission.
1363
01:39:05,856 --> 01:39:08,233
But for Scott Kelly
and Mikhail Kornienko,
1364
01:39:08,359 --> 01:39:14,156
the first steps into the space station
and their home for the next 340 days.
1365
01:39:16,116 --> 01:39:19,703
[Scott] You miss, you know, your friends,
your family, people on the ground.
1366
01:39:19,828 --> 01:39:21,497
You miss the weather.
1367
01:39:22,373 --> 01:39:25,125
I always missed rain, the sound of it.
1368
01:39:25,250 --> 01:39:29,296
But you miss things like that, the sun,
miss going outside.
1369
01:39:30,130 --> 01:39:36,303
See, we got some creamed spinach,
asparagus and grilled chicken.
1370
01:39:36,428 --> 01:39:38,055
It's gonna go on a tortilla.
1371
01:39:40,683 --> 01:39:41,850
My spoon.
1372
01:39:46,271 --> 01:39:50,150
Can't let the little droplets
get too far.
1373
01:39:55,698 --> 01:39:57,157
Surface tension is very important.
1374
01:39:57,282 --> 01:39:58,992
If we didn't have surface tension
in space,
1375
01:39:59,118 --> 01:40:01,286
we'd be in big trouble
in a lot of areas.
1376
01:40:02,413 --> 01:40:03,747
Yeah. Oh!
1377
01:40:05,249 --> 01:40:06,709
Oh, man.
1378
01:40:07,835 --> 01:40:09,753
That was just made by a chef.
1379
01:40:09,878 --> 01:40:13,340
-Yep.
-And it is best before July 2016.
1380
01:40:13,465 --> 01:40:16,385
This is probably best before July 2013.
1381
01:40:18,595 --> 01:40:20,514
[both laugh]
1382
01:40:22,558 --> 01:40:25,185
You could actually
keep in touch pretty well.
1383
01:40:25,310 --> 01:40:27,187
We have a phone on board.
1384
01:40:27,312 --> 01:40:29,815
Generally, you can have
a video conference on the weekends,
1385
01:40:29,898 --> 01:40:31,191
so you get to see your family.
1386
01:40:31,275 --> 01:40:35,279
It's pretty good capability, actually.
You just can't see people in person.
1387
01:40:41,368 --> 01:40:42,828
{\an8}Hi, Dad. How are you doing?
1388
01:40:46,206 --> 01:40:47,791
{\an8}-[Scott] I'm doing good.
-Yeah?
1389
01:40:47,916 --> 01:40:51,712
-Got some visitors showing up tomorrow.
-Awesome.
1390
01:40:51,837 --> 01:40:54,256
Have you gotten
your Christmas presents yet?
1391
01:40:56,842 --> 01:40:59,720
Yeah, thank you for the T-shirt.
1392
01:40:59,845 --> 01:41:03,932
I think I put, like, a bell in there
that was like, "Number One Dad."
1393
01:41:05,726 --> 01:41:07,770
-Got the bell and the card too, yeah.
-Yeah.
1394
01:41:07,895 --> 01:41:11,690
-And the T-shirt was in there too.
-Yeah.
1395
01:41:11,815 --> 01:41:16,403
-All right, love you, Charlotte.
-Love you too. Talk to you then.
1396
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:20,115
-Bye-bye.
-Bye-bye.
1397
01:41:38,383 --> 01:41:41,136
I got Misha behind me.
Waking up too.
1398
01:41:47,476 --> 01:41:50,437
A lot of people don't realize this,
but when we're sitting here,
1399
01:41:50,562 --> 01:41:52,648
and we're looking at each other,
1400
01:41:52,773 --> 01:41:54,733
you're looking at me,
I'm looking at you,
1401
01:41:54,858 --> 01:41:59,029
what you see is filtered
by the air we're looking through.
1402
01:41:59,154 --> 01:42:01,865
When you're in space,
and the only air you're looking through
1403
01:42:01,990 --> 01:42:03,992
is between your eye and the visor,
1404
01:42:04,117 --> 01:42:06,411
or maybe between your eye
and the window,
1405
01:42:06,537 --> 01:42:11,750
it makes everything look
just spectacularly,
1406
01:42:12,626 --> 01:42:15,212
brilliantly colored and clear,
1407
01:42:15,337 --> 01:42:18,340
because you're looking through nothing,
there's nothing to filter your eye,
1408
01:42:18,465 --> 01:42:22,177
whether it's looking at the Earth
or looking at the space station.
1409
01:42:22,302 --> 01:42:25,931
And when you're outside, I mean,
it's just incredible. Incredible.
1410
01:42:59,298 --> 01:43:00,299
Oh!
1411
01:43:01,633 --> 01:43:04,511
Man, that feels good.
1412
01:43:04,636 --> 01:43:06,054
[woman] Welcome home.
1413
01:43:06,179 --> 01:43:07,598
Ah.
1414
01:43:07,723 --> 01:43:08,891
[woman] Back to Earth.
1415
01:43:11,476 --> 01:43:13,812
[ringing tone]
1416
01:43:19,192 --> 01:43:21,945
[Nigel] You've reached the voicemail
for Angela and Nigel Peake,
1417
01:43:22,070 --> 01:43:24,031
but I'm afraid we're not here
just at the moment.
1418
01:43:24,156 --> 01:43:27,367
Please leave us a message. We'll get
back to you as soon as we can.
1419
01:43:27,492 --> 01:43:28,785
Thank you very much.
1420
01:43:28,911 --> 01:43:30,203
[bleeps]
1421
01:43:30,996 --> 01:43:32,873
[Tim Peake]
Hello, Angela and Nigel Peake.
1422
01:43:32,998 --> 01:43:36,877
This is just your son calling
from the International Space Station.
1423
01:43:37,002 --> 01:43:39,963
I'm sorry you're not in,
but I will try and get you later.
1424
01:43:40,088 --> 01:43:41,089
[bleeps]
1425
01:43:46,929 --> 01:43:49,139
["Solid Ground" playing]
1426
01:43:58,148 --> 01:44:02,986
♪ How does it feel
When it's quiet and calm? ♪
1427
01:44:04,821 --> 01:44:08,784
♪ And will I be denied? ♪
1428
01:44:11,995 --> 01:44:16,667
♪ How will it feel
When it's time to move on? ♪
1429
01:44:18,877 --> 01:44:22,255
♪ Mother says kneel and pray ♪
1430
01:44:25,842 --> 01:44:31,139
♪ When it gets hard
I will roll those sleeves ♪
1431
01:44:32,391 --> 01:44:36,353
♪ Life can be so unkind ♪
1432
01:44:39,314 --> 01:44:43,860
♪ I will be found
On the edge of the world ♪
1433
01:44:46,113 --> 01:44:49,574
♪ Where there'll be no one around ♪
1434
01:44:50,033 --> 01:44:53,203
♪ Oh, solid ground ♪
1435
01:44:57,958 --> 01:45:00,043
♪ Solid ground ♪
1436
01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:06,550
♪ Solid ground ♪
1437
01:45:11,763 --> 01:45:13,557
♪ Solid ground ♪
1438
01:45:18,478 --> 01:45:20,939
♪ Solid ground ♪
1439
01:45:25,444 --> 01:45:27,612
♪ Solid ground ♪
1440
01:45:32,325 --> 01:45:34,286
♪ Solid ground ♪
1441
01:45:39,207 --> 01:45:41,251
♪ Solid ground ♪
1442
01:45:51,428 --> 01:45:52,512
{\an8}My name is Tim Peake,
1443
01:45:52,637 --> 01:45:55,766
{\an8}and I'm an astronaut
with the European Space Agency.
1444
01:45:59,770 --> 01:46:03,273
I grew up in Westbourne,
which is a small village in West Sussex.
1445
01:46:03,398 --> 01:46:05,025
We had beautiful night skies.
1446
01:46:05,150 --> 01:46:08,487
I would, you know, often go out at night
and just look up at the stars,
1447
01:46:08,612 --> 01:46:11,531
and really ask myself the big questions
1448
01:46:11,656 --> 01:46:14,618
about our place in the universe
and how we got here,
1449
01:46:14,743 --> 01:46:17,704
and what created the universe,
and where it's going.
1450
01:46:21,416 --> 01:46:23,502
The ability to actually
go up there and travel,
1451
01:46:23,627 --> 01:46:26,171
to see what's out there
beyond the boundaries,
1452
01:46:26,296 --> 01:46:28,131
was definitely a dream.
1453
01:46:30,300 --> 01:46:32,761
-[Tim] Okay, I'm coming out.
-[Tim Kopra] Okay.
1454
01:46:33,470 --> 01:46:36,807
[Reid Wiseman] Hey, Tim, it's really cool
seeing that Union Jack go outside,
1455
01:46:36,890 --> 01:46:39,101
since it's explored all over the world,
1456
01:46:39,184 --> 01:46:40,852
now it's explored space.
1457
01:46:40,936 --> 01:46:43,897
[Tim] It's great to be wearing it.
1458
01:46:44,564 --> 01:46:45,774
A huge privilege.
1459
01:46:46,525 --> 01:46:47,859
A proud moment.
1460
01:46:49,945 --> 01:46:51,404
[man] Gentlemen, looking great.
1461
01:46:51,530 --> 01:46:54,116
Glad to see you both out there together
on the tip of the world.
1462
01:46:57,119 --> 01:46:59,621
[Tim] We thought it very important
to include our children
1463
01:46:59,704 --> 01:47:01,581
in everything that was going on,
1464
01:47:01,706 --> 01:47:04,543
so they felt very much
a part of that process.
1465
01:47:04,668 --> 01:47:06,545
[boy] Hello, Daddy.
1466
01:47:06,670 --> 01:47:08,839
They were there in Kazakhstan
on launch day.
1467
01:47:08,964 --> 01:47:13,218
[reporter] Tim's wife, Rebecca, beaming
with pride. Not a trace of nerves.
1468
01:47:13,343 --> 01:47:16,888
Will you ever be able to look
at the stars in the same way again?
1469
01:47:17,013 --> 01:47:19,474
It'll give us something extra
to look at, that's for sure,
1470
01:47:19,599 --> 01:47:22,894
now that we know Daddy's up there,
so, yeah,
1471
01:47:23,019 --> 01:47:26,857
we'll have something else to look out
for in the night sky, so it'll be great.
1472
01:47:26,940 --> 01:47:29,901
[Tim] I got to see them just before
getting onto the bus as well,
1473
01:47:30,026 --> 01:47:31,111
to the launch pad.
1474
01:47:38,618 --> 01:47:43,498
By the time you actually say goodbye
to your family and go to the launch pad,
1475
01:47:43,623 --> 01:47:45,876
there's a moment there
where you realize,
1476
01:47:46,001 --> 01:47:48,336
"Okay, this is happening now."
1477
01:47:48,461 --> 01:47:53,133
And for me, it was a real flick
of a switch in terms of mental focus.
1478
01:47:53,258 --> 01:47:55,510
Ten, nine, eight…
1479
01:47:55,635 --> 01:47:57,804
[Tim] You realize,
"This is it for six months.
1480
01:47:57,888 --> 01:48:00,807
Get into the right frame of mind,
1481
01:48:00,932 --> 01:48:03,101
because what you're going to do
is quite remarkable."
1482
01:48:03,226 --> 01:48:05,145
One!
1483
01:48:10,483 --> 01:48:11,526
Hey!
1484
01:48:14,362 --> 01:48:16,781
Bye, Daddy! Bye!
1485
01:48:39,888 --> 01:48:43,099
[Tim] Nothing can really prepare you
for that feeling of weightlessness
1486
01:48:43,225 --> 01:48:45,977
and how to move your body around.
You feel very clumsy at first.
1487
01:48:46,102 --> 01:48:50,440
Your arms and legs are not moving
how you would expect them to,
1488
01:48:50,565 --> 01:48:53,610
and you have to use your muscles
in a different way to control yourself.
1489
01:48:53,735 --> 01:48:56,363
This could be the worst idea
I've ever had.
1490
01:48:56,488 --> 01:48:59,241
-[laughs]
-Come on. You can do better than that.
1491
01:48:59,366 --> 01:49:02,118
Okay, so, yeah, I'll just go into a ball
and start spinning,
1492
01:49:02,244 --> 01:49:06,539
and then if you wanna
just keep me going round, and…
1493
01:49:07,332 --> 01:49:10,710
-Shall I keep you on axis too?
-Yeah, yeah. On axis, that's cool.
1494
01:49:11,711 --> 01:49:13,797
Let's go for it. That's good.
1495
01:49:13,922 --> 01:49:18,009
That's really fast from my point of view,
but it's not making me feel sick.
1496
01:49:19,010 --> 01:49:22,764
The space station is, first
and foremost, a scientific laboratory.
1497
01:49:22,889 --> 01:49:26,810
When you change gravity,
you get some quite remarkable results
1498
01:49:26,935 --> 01:49:28,853
in many of the experiments
that we're doing.
1499
01:49:28,979 --> 01:49:33,233
If you think that all life on Earth
has evolved over billions of years
1500
01:49:33,358 --> 01:49:35,151
in a one-G environment,
1501
01:49:35,277 --> 01:49:36,820
put them into weightlessness,
1502
01:49:36,945 --> 01:49:40,782
we know straightaway
that the human body changes remarkably
1503
01:49:40,907 --> 01:49:43,451
just in the first five weeks in space.
1504
01:49:43,576 --> 01:49:47,497
Our immune system changes,
our cardiovascular system changes,
1505
01:49:47,622 --> 01:49:52,085
our blood volume changes, our skin ages
differently, our eyesight changes.
1506
01:49:52,210 --> 01:49:56,506
And that just goes to show
what gravity is doing here on Earth
1507
01:49:56,631 --> 01:49:58,550
and what happens when you remove it.
1508
01:49:59,301 --> 01:50:00,969
Okay, I'll see if I can…
1509
01:50:01,094 --> 01:50:03,805
I'm feeling dizzy.
I'll see how quickly it stops.
1510
01:50:05,432 --> 01:50:09,561
So definitely felt dizzy initially,
and now it's gone.
1511
01:50:09,686 --> 01:50:12,022
-No. It's that quick?
-Yeah. Yeah, completely normal.
1512
01:50:12,147 --> 01:50:13,440
-Amazing.
-Yeah.
1513
01:50:13,565 --> 01:50:14,566
[man] Crazy.
1514
01:50:18,820 --> 01:50:21,531
[Tim] I was very lucky to have
the opportunity to go on a spacewalk.
1515
01:50:21,656 --> 01:50:24,409
Myself and Tim Kopra, my NASA crewmate.
1516
01:50:24,534 --> 01:50:26,995
We had to go and repair
one of the solar panels.
1517
01:50:27,120 --> 01:50:28,413
It was quite an important task
1518
01:50:28,538 --> 01:50:31,374
to get the full power back
up and running to the space station.
1519
01:50:31,499 --> 01:50:33,209
[commentator] Tim Peake
now being moved
1520
01:50:33,335 --> 01:50:34,627
by Scott Kelly on the left,
1521
01:50:34,753 --> 01:50:40,216
Sergei Volkov on the right,
into the crew-lock section of Quest.
1522
01:50:42,177 --> 01:50:44,637
[Tim] When you first go into the airlock,
1523
01:50:44,763 --> 01:50:46,848
you're in there
with so much other equipment.
1524
01:50:46,973 --> 01:50:49,267
Everything is making an awful noise.
1525
01:50:49,392 --> 01:50:51,603
I mean, we have a lot of metal
on our spacesuits,
1526
01:50:51,728 --> 01:50:54,314
so lots of clips, lots of karabiners,
1527
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:56,524
tethers which are gonna
keep things attached.
1528
01:50:56,649 --> 01:50:59,110
Everything is clunking around,
making a racket.
1529
01:50:59,235 --> 01:51:03,198
As the airlock starts to depressurize
and we go to vacuum,
1530
01:51:03,323 --> 01:51:06,618
you notice a lot of that noise
starting to disappear.
1531
01:51:17,670 --> 01:51:22,550
We still hear things because they're
being transmitted through our spacesuit,
1532
01:51:22,675 --> 01:51:26,304
but, for example, you can get
two metal clips in front of your helmet
1533
01:51:26,429 --> 01:51:29,682
and knock them together
and then you won't hear anything at all.
1534
01:51:29,808 --> 01:51:32,727
The noise that you have
is just a gentle hum of a fan
1535
01:51:32,852 --> 01:51:36,523
blowing air over the back of our heads
through our helmets.
1536
01:51:39,401 --> 01:51:40,527
Dropping out of the airlock
1537
01:51:40,652 --> 01:51:46,408
and just seeing Earth beneath my feet
for the first time was wonderful.
1538
01:51:47,117 --> 01:51:50,161
It's a very calm environment,
a very serene environment.
1539
01:51:50,286 --> 01:51:53,373
It's not like a high-adrenaline,
extreme sport.
1540
01:51:53,498 --> 01:51:56,543
It's one that's just of awe.
1541
01:51:57,001 --> 01:52:01,589
♪ Hanging around
On the edge of the world ♪
1542
01:52:03,716 --> 01:52:06,845
♪ Finally no one around ♪
1543
01:52:07,846 --> 01:52:12,308
[Tim] I think spacewalking is probably
the highest risk activity that we do,
1544
01:52:12,434 --> 01:52:14,436
and it's actually
physically demanding as well.
1545
01:52:14,561 --> 01:52:17,021
It looks very graceful
when you see astronauts out there,
1546
01:52:17,147 --> 01:52:19,899
but inside the suit,
we're working very, very hard
1547
01:52:20,024 --> 01:52:22,610
with moving your fingers and your arms
1548
01:52:22,735 --> 01:52:25,363
against the pressure
of a pressurized suit.
1549
01:52:29,409 --> 01:52:31,494
♪ Solid ground ♪
1550
01:52:35,665 --> 01:52:38,251
One thing that was strange for me
as a pilot
1551
01:52:38,376 --> 01:52:42,547
is that in all my years of flying,
of course, if there's an emergency,
1552
01:52:42,672 --> 01:52:45,300
one of the first things
you're thinking about is landing.
1553
01:52:45,425 --> 01:52:48,011
Where am I gonna land?
How am I going to land?
1554
01:52:48,136 --> 01:52:53,016
In space, that's not gonna happen.
You're up there for good.
1555
01:52:56,644 --> 01:52:58,855
♪ Solid ground ♪
1556
01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:29,886
[Josh] Our planet
is just a little blue marble
1557
01:53:30,011 --> 01:53:32,305
floating in the black void of space.
1558
01:53:34,098 --> 01:53:40,772
I make little planets that perhaps
remind one of how small our own Earth is
1559
01:53:40,897 --> 01:53:44,150
in relation to the greater universe.
1560
01:53:45,777 --> 01:53:48,988
Some kind of a star-base there.
1561
01:53:53,826 --> 01:53:56,037
And sometimes just cities.
1562
01:53:58,581 --> 01:54:02,293
People actually give us a hard time
because he makes glass planets
1563
01:54:02,418 --> 01:54:04,921
and I like to go look for planets.
1564
01:54:05,588 --> 01:54:07,507
They seem to like it up here.
1565
01:54:09,592 --> 01:54:11,594
[Jamey] Hey, Mom, I made cookies.
1566
01:54:11,719 --> 01:54:13,972
[Josh] Jamey made cookies
two nights in a row.
1567
01:54:14,097 --> 01:54:18,476
[Cady] Oh, I miss you, sweetie-pie.
I love you guys a lot. I miss you.
1568
01:54:18,601 --> 01:54:20,436
[Jamey] Love you too.
I love you. I miss you.
1569
01:54:20,562 --> 01:54:22,689
-[Josh] All right, bye, sweetie.
-[Cady] Bye.
1570
01:54:25,733 --> 01:54:29,028
We could not call Cady,
but she called us.
1571
01:54:29,153 --> 01:54:32,198
I think she called us
every single night she was in orbit
1572
01:54:32,323 --> 01:54:34,492
except the night before she came back.
1573
01:54:35,201 --> 01:54:37,203
It was amazing to have her call us.
1574
01:54:37,328 --> 01:54:41,499
We'd talk for a few minutes and then
we'd go back, if it was a clear night,
1575
01:54:41,624 --> 01:54:46,421
we'd walk out onto the back porch
and watch her just blaze across the sky.
1576
01:54:49,340 --> 01:54:51,843
[Jamey] She would read me,
like, bedtime stories,
1577
01:54:51,968 --> 01:54:55,805
or I would just sort of talk to her
in my room about my day, you know.
1578
01:54:55,930 --> 01:55:01,519
It was definitely really tough
to not be able to talk in the same way,
1579
01:55:01,644 --> 01:55:05,356
and that whenever I needed something,
I would call my mom and be, like,
1580
01:55:05,481 --> 01:55:08,109
"Mom, I can't find my pants.
Where are my pants?"
1581
01:55:08,234 --> 01:55:10,069
But now that she was on the station,
1582
01:55:10,194 --> 01:55:12,864
it was, like, "Sweetie,
I don't know where your pants are,
1583
01:55:12,947 --> 01:55:15,533
because I haven't been there
for four months," you know.
1584
01:55:16,534 --> 01:55:18,077
People ask me, you know, like,
1585
01:55:18,202 --> 01:55:20,204
"What is it like to have your mom
as an astronaut?"
1586
01:55:20,330 --> 01:55:22,999
And I'll be, like,
"Well, I mean, it's just Mom."
1587
01:55:24,834 --> 01:55:28,713
[Cady] I look out at the stars
and I see so many stars and planets
1588
01:55:28,838 --> 01:55:31,841
and know that, you know,
we have a place in the universe,
1589
01:55:31,966 --> 01:55:35,011
and it's our job to explore that place.
1590
01:55:36,721 --> 01:55:38,348
We need to bring up our children
1591
01:55:38,473 --> 01:55:42,143
to recognize and celebrate
the differences among us
1592
01:55:42,268 --> 01:55:45,563
and realize that it is
bringing those differences to a team
1593
01:55:45,688 --> 01:55:50,193
that allows us to pursue and succeed
in large endeavors,
1594
01:55:50,318 --> 01:55:52,278
like having it become normal
1595
01:55:52,403 --> 01:55:55,907
that somebody's mom
lives on the space station.
1596
01:55:58,534 --> 01:56:00,787
["In The Wee Small Hours
Of The Morning" playing]
1597
01:56:00,870 --> 01:56:06,417
♪ In the wee small hours of the morning ♪
1598
01:56:07,710 --> 01:56:14,425
♪ While the whole wide world
Is fast asleep ♪
1599
01:56:14,509 --> 01:56:16,719
It's very interesting
when you overfly places
1600
01:56:16,844 --> 01:56:18,346
that you have a strong connection to.
1601
01:56:18,471 --> 01:56:21,975
You are high enough that you can embrace
with one look an entire country.
1602
01:56:22,100 --> 01:56:25,395
Like Italy, you can easily see
the whole of it.
1603
01:56:25,520 --> 01:56:28,106
Everybody that I know
that I love that lives in there,
1604
01:56:28,231 --> 01:56:30,108
I can kind of see them all.
1605
01:56:36,072 --> 01:56:39,283
We are flying around the Earth
once every 90 minutes.
1606
01:56:39,409 --> 01:56:42,745
Every orbit
is like this embrace of the planet.
1607
01:56:43,997 --> 01:56:47,041
There is no one place on the planet
that feels far away.
1608
01:56:47,166 --> 01:56:49,544
Everything feels very close,
like your backyard.
1609
01:56:49,961 --> 01:56:56,926
♪ In the wee small hours of the morning ♪
1610
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♪ That's the time… ♪
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[Samantha] Even the strange situation
of thinking that, you know,
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there's billions of people on the planet,
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and there's only six right now
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that are not, you know,
confined to the surface,
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and it happens to be the six of us.
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I think by the end what I had
was a feeling of affection
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for the planet as a whole.
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It almost makes you feel like
the sentinels that are guarding the Earth,
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especially when you fly over it
at night, right?
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You almost think, like,
people down there,
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you're looking over them
as they're sleeping.
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You get that feeling of,
"Oh, gosh, you know, it's my planet,
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I want to protect it."
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♪ In the wee small hours of the morning ♪
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♪ That's the time you miss her ♪
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♪ Most of all ♪
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[Peggy] One of the best parts
of being able
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to look at Earth from space
is perspective.
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Because you see that planet,
you see how valuable it is,
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how tiny-thin that atmosphere is,
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and that's where all of the humanity
that we know about, anyway, lives on.
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And then you look out to the stars
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and you see thousands and thousands
and thousands of stars,
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and recognize
that we are just one galaxy
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and that there are
billions of galaxies out there
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that have maybe even more stars than us.
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It makes me sure
that there is other life out there.
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It may not look like us, or, you know,
be like us in any form or fashion,
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but there's going to be life out there.
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There's just too many choices,
too many chances to be had.
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I think what history will say
about the space station is going to be
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that it was the first real demonstration
of international cooperation.
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We put together pieces
that had never been put together,
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we did it in low-Earth orbit,
going 17,500 miles an hour,
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and that technical cooperation
overcomes differences
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in culture, in religions or beliefs.
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We overcame all of that
and came together
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to build something really special.
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I think one of the most memorable times
on the spacewalk,
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I was doing a baseband
signal processor change-out.
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I pulled the box out, and the back side
of the container that housed the box
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was this mirror reflective substance,
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and I saw myself in a spacesuit
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with the Earth behind me.
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I was, like, "Hey, I'm an astronaut.
The real thing!"
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Not bad for a girl from Iowa.
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I would go back to space in a heartbeat.
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I met my radiation limits with NASA,
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so I'll have to find somebody else
that'll fly me.
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[chuckles]
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[Scott] Seeing the Earth from space,
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and seeing the planet
without political borders,
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you get an enhanced sense
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that we are all in this thing
that we call humanity together.
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You know, we're all part
of the same team, Team Earth.
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One of the first times I looked at
the Earth I was, like, kind of puzzled.
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I was like, "Hey, what's that thin film
over the surface?"
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And then you quickly realize,
that's our atmosphere.
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When you look down on the planet,
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our atmosphere looks like a contact lens
over somebody's eyeball,
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like this very, very fragile thing.
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And then you see
how certain parts of the Earth
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are almost always covered in pollution.
Noticeable changes in the rainforest.
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I mean, it really makes you, you know,
wanna take care of the planet.
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We're all not going to Mars.
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Mars is not the place that we go
after we destroy this planet.
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That's not gonna work.
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This was built
by an international partnership.
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Fifteen different countries,
different languages, different cultures,
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different technical ways
of doing things.
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This is like the hardest thing
we've ever done.
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Maybe harder than going to the Moon.
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That alone proves
that if we have a dream,
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if we have a goal,
if we work together, work as a team,
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we can accomplish amazing things.
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[man speaks in Russian]
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[applause]
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[Sergei in Russian]
Space exploration is important
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because it's a way to expand our world.
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The fact that we've now learned
to go higher than the atmosphere
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is probably a step as crucial
as learning to cross the sea.
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[man] The crew requests permission
to come aboard.
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[man 2] Endeavour, permission granted.
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[Sergei in Russian] Sooner or later,
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we must find some settlements
on the Moon,
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then maybe on Mars's satellites,
on Mars itself,
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so these are the first steps to making
our civilization multi-planetary.
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We do realize
we've just started on this path
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and maybe walking it is slower
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than sci-fi writers thought
30 or 40 years ago,
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but we still have to take steps now
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to finally arrive
where our destiny lies.
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[Bill] To us, their less tried successors,
they appear magnified,
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pushing out into the unknown
in obedience to an inward voice,
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to an impulse beating in the blood,
to a dream of the future.
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They were wonderful,
and it must be owned,
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they were ready for the wonderful.
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[woman] Parameters of the launch vehicle
are normal.
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[woman 2] Okay, copy. Everything is normal
on board. 150 seconds.
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[woman 3] Have you loud and clear.
Everything is normal on board.
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Further inaudible.
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[woman 4] This is 19. Solovia.
Yes, I have you loud and clear.
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Everything's good on our side.
Congratulations.
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["Solid Ground" playing]
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♪ How does it feel
When it's quiet and calm? ♪
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♪ And will I be denied? ♪
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♪ How will it feel
When it's time to move on? ♪
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♪ Mother says kneel and pray ♪
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♪ When it gets hard
I will roll those sleeves ♪
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♪ Life can be so unkind ♪
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♪ I will be found
On the edge of the world ♪
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♪ Where there'll be no one around ♪
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♪ Oh, solid ground ♪
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♪ Solid ground ♪
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♪ Solid ground ♪
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{\an8}♪ Solid ground ♪