in madison's, i would say the level of competition is very high, and i've, i feel like, you know, for the most part, it's a level playing field. fill on this and thank you so much for speaking to us today . my pleasure, kate. the via it's as astronauts on this spaceship and calder, we can only overcome challenges by working with each other rather than fighting from that's the way this was the start of a new era ever months. and one of the modules were made in russia, us, and you're on an old man and a comfortable it was a new world where we could work towards a common goal. this is a promising moment to the world had come together. russia strategic nuclear missiles soon will no longer be pointed at the united states, nor will we point hours at them by the only thing i'm given the current geo political situation. it's hard to imagine and such

a huge project coming together again, we have not seen some of the cost of building weapons in space. russian sciences will help us to build the international space station e cause them for her. while we were preparing the johnson space center, there was a poster saying, 300 days till the 1st module long checkup the band was 200 days of the module one should he didn't. i remember how it still seems like a long time away. he doesn't know 25 years of combined with the other went by really quickly. this was the most valuable machine human kind is ever built. and also the most unlikely one we've ever built. the

indian homes out a new era and the space travel today, a russian rocket launch, the 1st module of the planned international space station homestead seal on inside and on the launch. it was november 20th of 1998. i had the entire crew over to my house to watch party, and so we had it on tv. and we were watching. uh it is pro time rocket live, sorry. it took 4 of it in it successfully made it to orbit and we knew that now we were going to have a mission. we were going launch 2 weeks later. so it was a great joy in my family room that evening as we all watch. sorry, a launch. it was quite an event. we had a great time, the

3 to one. we have a booster ignition and lift the face of the one deborah with the 1st american element of the international space. and when it came time to actually entered the space station for the 1st time as we opened the hatch and got it open, i said sir,

he had come here and i pulled him up alongside me. and the whole crew went inside. but if you looked at how we entered sir again, i entered through the hatch side by side. that's all. is that really important? if we're going to have an international space station we have to enter is an international across. so it's to, it's a trick question. i ask people, i would say, who is the 1st person enter the space station and there was no 1st person. i had the privilege of being the 1st american and sir gave us the 1st russian, but we entered side by side. you just see the solution with that, because of that before opening the hatch, we decided with both cabanas pool, the 1st thing and, and who will be 2nd to meet this when you, when we also talked about why are we but you move move, you feel we look, we entered the 1st module together. no. then we also went into the 2nd side by side for good with cardelia to have missed it. then the whole team came up pretty soon. you'll see that the team is coverage began to deal with the later part of the, you know, with the, the started but i did serious it's tradition to keep

a lock the amount. but then we just did. and it was only rise in the shuffle commander wrote the 1st entry community of uh, charlottesville. the quick there was that is for them, it was a start of a pattern that we've been traveling together for 25 years. and i do to has what's been lived in i, i'd like to think i captured it somewhat in the 1st log entry for the international space patient. if you read that log book and pre and the whole crew assigned it. but it starts out, you know, from small beginnings, great things come in and it talked about our, our future in and what we expected working together. and i truly believe that's been the case the we can solve our dreams to distant stars living and working in space for peaceful, economic and scientific game. tonight, i am directing nations to develop

a permanently man space station. and to do it within a decade the, [000:00:00;00] the recent government's office back then we'd also go to the russian's room. we flew straight to moscow and said, hey, you've got your mir space station. let's do some research there together. and they said, sure, come join us. and within a few years we had actually managed to carry out several nations on board. mere

need on this, on some of the notes here. yeah. of on city in many respects, the ninety's was an ideal time to lay the groundwork for these kinds of partnerships. so the soviet union had broken up the idea to create a successor to mir was in the air. and the americans also wanted to build a space station as well. those factors alone were good signs. few these and thankfully the collaboration came together and use that soon. at the time the mirror station was the benchmarks, design upsides the 1st module had gone into space and in 1986 on. so the experience that the russians had had with the sell you had station and then with me or was extremely valuable when it came to designing the instructing and operating the international space station within the tube of putting all fold it and, and that's not an option. not sonya mama says also, russia had always been a proud nation and they weren't good at space travel. they were experienced as long

as they had there. so use rockets for decades. so they built the space stations, but they had a lot of experience with a young young ball. then the americans came along and said, we don't have the experience, but we do have the money america. so what happened was that russian experience and the american money was brought together for the benefit of both falling behind it. another kind investigate that was the situation back then under that side on my system. that's what i thought. you know, when i looked at the partnership of the international space station is truly amazing when you consider in russia the united states, japan, canada, the european space agency in all its partners. we are all working together on this is one, you know, 250, some not equal miles of, of the year with a crew up there every day, continuously working together and so, and that's pretty awesome. and isn't very smooth really does. now when i come into a training module like this one,

it feels completely different. i think on a blick, before i flew to the i ss, this was all, i'm familiar technology. it was confusing, i'm complex a care fee, whatever. since i spent a year on the i ss, everything in here feels really familiar of the stuff you think differently about the equipment because you've worked with it for a long time. yeah. yeah. good phones, also toys show even with a space station that's like everything you start to have a sort of personal relationship about. and that's really some really good for him and it feels a bit like being at home. it's in the wrong stuff. so in this case, the,

some of this is on the scene and it was like the most special and we felt as a crew that we were really lucky because it had just been brought up by the crew before us and attached and all the space walks done to take the covers. ok. so now we were that were able to look down on earth and we didn't have the robotic arm station in there. they, it was like nothing in there. you can just go float and, and look at her. and it was amazing and it's, it's really hard to tear astronaut, so welcome to the coupon. it's about to get really bright in here. that's a hallmark of the cool below. when you come in from the space station and it's light outside, then suddenly it's dazzling. your eyes have to adjust. without this module, we wouldn't have this one of a kind of unit,

360 degrees around and 180 degrees onto the earth. sublime is no other place on the station. is this incredible to visit with the just minutes before we started this po event? my colleagues here, actually they gave me the on an opening, the cooper, the shutters inches. that's an amazing view. it's the view that i was dreaming about. for years. i love you. surely. earth is so beautiful from above. and so it's different to what you imagine that it's nice, it's not like when you zoom in on a satellite image where everything always looks the same, boomed and see this other thing we memorize all of the space station is moving this through the, the solar panels are moving the space ships, doc it and on. i don't. and we use the robotic arm to grab the sky from this what i wanted to document all of that and share it with the people down below

the, the, the, the, another somersault. oops. now i broken something to speak to the cameras flooding. okay, i got it on the phone, stuff that's. and 1st it took me a while to control my body and cup. i was constantly bumping into things are colliding with the other crew. again, it was quite funny at 1st,

but by now you're expecting to be able to control your own body and not be constantly knocking things off the walls and kind of extend the stylus one in minutes. and i put on the some if you're the 1st time space walk has been carried out by an old woman team. after $220.00 previous i assess space walks. nasa has finally completed one using only female astronaut use as back in march. and now christina kotch and jessica meyer had their space was canceled at short notice, because they had nothing to wear, mix of sophistication,

robotic or i think that it is actually important to talk about it as women. we also celebrated that space walk. it meant a lot, especially because the suits weren't designed for women in mind. it was designed for the media of 2 extra large male bodies which also left out, you know, smaller male astronauts as well not just women station. this is president donald trump. do you hear me? i just want to congratulate you. what you do is incredible. it's so you're very brave people. i don't think i want to do it. i must tell you that a but you are amazing people. they're conducting the 1st ever female space. walk to replace or the exterior part of the space station. so i think it was really good that we pointed it out and then we're changing the new space so that they do take

into account diverse bodies sizes. and they will be more inclusive for the people that will go find the stuff to baton on the i was allowed to mix concrete space. see what's concrete release has more c o 2 around the world and then the entire aerospace industry. and so if we can examine this traditional material under very specific conditions and space in the end, put our results into a computer model with us all. and then we can optimize concrete to them and hopefully make a major contribution to combat in climate change, right? it's about getting them clean up one to 5 to uninstall space into off the data when science is wanted to build satellites. and the i assess was always seen as

a huge thing that costs too much that's offers. but if you look at it, size of the research that's being done there, and the international community that's coming together around it all the and it's really his star itself, in terms of space exploration is one of humanity's greatest achievement. what is either good or some at fault? ok. better than mine in china. and that own portion of the, the scene out that has this video has a serious story behind it. when i was commander hallowell and just hang around, there is combined the spy at home to i guess. as crew members have survived the boarded launch of their russian terrier rocket, landing unharmed and catholics done by leaped. there's still use a cap. so had to make an emergency landing after a major propulsion failure,

northland us astronaut nick, hague, and russian cosmonaut. alexio's t mean had been due to join the crew of the international space station on to our lights on the front. alex, on that guess flushed out through our cloud is here to come. i understood that i was now commanding a crew of 3 on the space station. ones is printing and i realized our mission might take a lot longer than we anticipated the slides or falls because they're not enough to such and my crew because they're going to ask us how long we can stay up here. and can i do that? i, i asked them if they were ready and how long they were prepared to stay. you know, i'm going to do black on their answer was item as long as it takes to protect this valuable station. that's where the inputs or fits dogger guthrie says, who done this month. it was part of my task to keep the crew spirits up a mid that uncertainty my loan. i had this one too much, but maintaining motivation and a sense of togetherness. sorry so that nobody got frustrated. and of course that's

the one outcome is that the last one. i brought the darth vader costume because i just had a feeling it might come in handy. though i didn't know how it turned out to be perfect and deify products, and my 2 colleagues were really creative. i'm leaving the sergei worked out a really good eldest costume they gave it was i still laugh when i think about it with us on the honey because when they went to read then serena was the 90 professor when we had a lot of fun spot. the the, this, the, i would explain it was by far the status day of my 6 months in space in home. but when you're up there, it can, you can see signs of life during the day to come this, but at night,

life on earth is wonderfully illuminated by all the city lights and got back on february 24th. we were flying over europe with everything brightly lit and talked to fluid. and i just wondered, but the suddenly we came to a dark spot right in the middle of your open. what that's what i was so striking for at least this happened fit really hit us hard. is something that happened in that country and these are the whole country had gone dark with only the capital keys still visible helps that the key of everything else was blocked. out, so as not to reveal targets for the russian air strikes us the beaten native trigger. we knew it was something we had to talk about. okay, that's because up there were a little family beyond profession via vincent ed within that family and decent. we can only work together efficiently and faced the dangers and emergencies that come our way to hundreds of people are all pulling together the kind of new my send into and i'm still on see, and then obviously it in, at some point i grabbed anton from defend his commander rolanda then also po to are in his russian colleague stuff,

and that was but i wasn't able to start an in depth discussion with people that said was immediately clear that people had been given completely different information, contact info my to once the argument was being made and that they had to fight terrorists in the country. i've been listening to the listen to comes well that's how it was on the 24 as the restaurant on pins in the days that followed. it was relative iced, my, i thought i'd like to be at the desk and also in addition to the, there was some discussion in western media and the 9 cosmonaut were sending a pro ukraine message for me. see if i hear if i think i can correct that here in now condition i am yeah. for those suits had been chosen and ordered a year before the launch on. so the color was pure coincidence. i see these are 5 years later i saw all like flying through the station wearing a jacket,

or like i said, aren't you to warm with that jacket on him with the yeah, can you beat around the bush for a bedroom? and then he said, we only have yellow sweaters and we're not allowed to wear yellow anymore. again, the police move forward is from ground control advisory board and on i gave him my blue sweater on so that he wouldn't have to go around the station wearing his jacket. that's the only thing was to fight in some to one and whatnot. another thing that happened was that question, credit cards were blocks from western services because of the sanctions. i know that included the music streaming service spot of finance. and on one of several we were able to use the sheet that they've opened notes. and so all of a sudden my russian colleagues had no music going on with that, that has an impact on the cruise wellbeing now. so we let them use our log in once they hit the thing which isn't entirely legal. i know exact. yeah, and that's fine. but it was really important that they could listen to music and relax up there. yeah. just like we could even come to open on to that. yeah. or you can also change one country via

the us. couldn't the quote, but there were many reasons the, i ss, came into being the most important was cooperation void. there's still a huge demand for experiments and technologies from and experimenting on to here looking. we're doing more experiments on board the i ss than ever before. has me a experiment as he needs before, and we have more researchers than ever applying to carry out experiments with us despite all that. the fact is, there isn't going to be a successor to the i ss as we know it today. and it's making that we've been able to use the international space station to test out the capabilities that will be needing to go deeper into space. so the international space station has been use

not just for technology pro, uh, in terms of, of facilities capabilities, but also for humans as setting how the human operates in space as well. and so with the things that we have learned that allows us to be able to know that we have the right systems going forward to the moon. and we're learning what we need to go to ours. yeah, offsets on this on because the space station is this massive entity instructor who gets well suited to large scale scientific experiments. so now you can do all sorts of things with it being a comment on this, but for commercial purposes, it's just too big and expensive. took place, maintaining it costs far too much food supply. that's why private companies now want small but sophisticated space stations and noticeable they don't need thousands of square meters of living space. i would flush, you just 2 or 300 would be enough. right? that's why smaller ones are being built. now once you get to the client that we've gone out with the yeah, yeah, contracts to help develop

a commercial space station space. we're flying private astronaut missions to the international space station. and we need that time to transition from a u. s. involvement in this huge international space station to smaller commercial destinations and space where the us is one of many customers, not primarily responsible. so we can focus on that job of exploring the on planet or the slot taishan ish bringing it down will be much more technically challenging than ending the operation of the mirror station that's on the be yes. as the i ss has a mass of around 420 tons, good, some innocent as things stand today, it won't be dismantled. they, the parts with each heart brought into re entry individually and some of the whole

thing in its entirety will have to be brought into re entry to be and listen. i need to push and live typical lives span of a space station is about 30 years. are it's like a car after 15 years and it needs more and more repairs. and you start to think about getting something out just obviously it's by the sea, and that's what i think. what happened with the current space station this has repairs, go up to companies won't be as interested in the let their space stations burn up in the atmosphere and that must be the most boot with us. we didn't from mirror, we have experience and had to bring a space station out of orbit and it'd be something near you which was good. it's no easy to just technically speaking with multiple he was able to find me well, end up helping my colleagues to make the necessary decisions and to deal with unexpected situations. it's the arise, the company or with me stephanie to thoughts has been able to. but i hope this isn't going to happen in the near future. our new show even though the station has already been an orbit longer than the plan take him,

but losing the escape truck. ok. this to nasa is already figuring out concrete scenarios for doing at the, from late model the process and they know what would happen if the space station had to come down tomorrow, get all the americans would know exactly how to do it. and then also events come up if it needs to be too over to. it will probably also be one of those types of like experiments or like, safely done where, you know, it's done in a way that we learn from it gets dana, this one. and there are plans to build a vehicle, send it up and have it push the i ss out of its orbit. i'm cheap, else i'll do a bond cheap. i'm done. then they'd let it burn up over a specific location. lots and probably the south pacific, which is also where mir came down. one thing on this, most of it would burn up that a few metal parts would crash into the sea metabolism into done though. that's a complex operation so that you can't just do it to mix up, but it needs a great deal of precise planning email. so the space agencies will definitely be involved on, on to the, isn't the on that are going to, in the,

through step by the probably not going to have to move. it may well be a really sad moment. and that's how we felt when the mir station was brought out of orbit of go. so it'd be this done so new, but this will be especially side. yeah. the more because the i ss wasn't just a place where we weren't almost a sense a, it was also a place where we really live to me assembly. i moved in the midst of got to them with that and, and really is really an opportunity. and like, i go outside and i see the space station go on overhead. and 1st i think about my friends that are on board and wonder what they're doing, how they're doing. got the moment in my know. yeah. there were times during my mission when the 3 of us on the space station realized that at that exact moment, there were 7000000000 people on our home planet and with an iphone and just 3 members of our species outside of it. and that's what you felt like a sheep separated from the her office, from the heading of kentwood it done. most of them don't like events and you had to smile because it was such a crazy situation. a and such

a privilege that someone as, as a customer to be the, the i s s means to me, cooperation and experts know for me it was most of the teachers stations may well be smaller and built differently than what we might achieve. other unique things like going to mars literacy boot missions we're, all of humanity comes together to achieve something even more ambitious than the i ss of the and chris you this in the city. we all know that we can only solve the world's major challenges by working together. and the i ss was the best proof that, that's possible. yes, this, this, this device for you, the

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