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via it's as astronauts on this spaceship and calder, we can only overcome challenge just by working with each other rather than fighting from that 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. the world had come together, russia is strategic nuclear missiles soon will no longer be pointed at the united states, nor will we point ours 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're looking at some, some of the, instead 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 post are saying 300 days till the 1st module long checkup the band was 200 days of the module. one should each thing. and i remember how it still seems like

a lot in time away. he goes, it was like 25 years of combined with the other. went by really quickly, and this was the most valuable machine human kind is ever built. and also the most unlikely one we've ever built. the indian home thought a new era in the space travel today. a russian rocket launch, the 1st module of the planned international space station homesteads, one inside and on the launch. it was november 20th of 1998

the entire crew over to my house for a watch party. and so we headed 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 gonna launch 2 weeks later. so it was a great joy in my family room that evening. as we all watch saria launch, it was quite an event. we had

a great time the, [000:00:00;00] the 3 to one. we have this through ignition and lift all of the space shuttle in deborah with the 1st american element of international. then when it came time actually entered the space station for the 1st time as we opened the hatch and got it open. i said sir, a come here and i pulled him up alongside me and the whole crew went inside. but if you look at how we entered sir again, i entered through the hatch side by side. i felt it 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 asked 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 see the solution with that because then what was it that the for opening the hatch, we decided with both combine us to move the 1st thing and who the 2nd meter. so when you, when we also talked about why don't we put you move, move, you fear, we look at the, we entered the 1st modul together. no. then we also went into the 2nd side by side for good. we have quite deals with mr. then the whole team came up pretty soon. you'll see that the team has coverage began beautifully to data, part of the, you know, with a started, but i did serious it's tradition to keep a lock the amount, but then we just moved and it was only right. and the shuffle commander wrote the 1st entry community of charlottesville, the quick that was, that is for them, it was the start of a pass. and that we've been traveling together for 25 years. and i need to visit specialist who can 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 in street and the whole crew assigned it, but it starts out, you know, from small beginnings, great things come. and again, it talked about our, our future and, and what we expected to working together. and i truly believe that's been the case the we can solve our dreams to distance 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 to visit tablets of 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 one some of the months ago. yeah, hold on for the same many respects. the ninety's was an ideal time to lay the groundwork for these kinds of partnerships so that 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, duties of and thankfully the collaboration came together and use that soon. at the time the mirror station was the benchmarks design upside. 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 team. putting all folder and, and that's not an overstuffed sodium. almost as also russia had always been a proud nation and they were good at space travel. they were experienced as long as they had their soul use rockets for decades. they built space stations, but they had a lot of experience. okay. yeah, yeah. mall. 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, what brought together lessons for the benefit of both falling behind another kind investigate. that was the situation back then under that side, almost just reply to i to, 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 the crew up there every day, continuously working together and so, and that's pretty awesome. finished and granting some what really does now when i come into a training module like this one, it feels completely different. i think i've done a break. before i flew to the i ss, this was all unfamiliar technology. i knew 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. is that something you think differently about the equipment because you've worked with it for a long time. yeah. yeah. good phones also voice show even with

a space station that's like him and you start to have a sort of personal relationship about and that's really some if there's anything hitting, it feels a bit like being at home it's and as long as that's the 1st piece of business on the scene and the could for 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 the,

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 slow and, and look at hers and it was amazing. and it's, it's really hard to tear us or not. so welcome to the group a lot. it's about to get really bright in here. the i can think of and that's a hallmark of the cool below. when you come in from the space station and it's light outside and then suddenly it's dazzling. your eyes have to adjust. without this module, we wouldn't have this one of a kind view of 360 degrees around and 180 degrees onto the earth. sublime is no other place on the station. is this incredible to visit the just minutes before we started this po, event a my colleague c, a actually they gave me the on the,

an opening, the cooper, the shutters, and just that's an amazing view. it's the view that i was dreaming about. 4 years old movie shirley, earth is so beautiful from above. and so it's different to what you imagine does. it's nice. it's not like when you zoom in on a satellite image where everything always looks the same, zoom and see this other thing. we mechanize all the space station is moving this to view the solar panels are moving the space ships, doc it and on. i don't, and we use the robotic arm to grab the guy from this what i wanted to document all

of that and share it with the people down below the the one, the other somersault. oops, on. now i broken something to speak to the cameras flooding. okay. i got it on the phone. and 1st it took me awhile 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 yes, the 1st time a space walk has been carried out by an old woman team. after 220 previous i assess space walks, nasa has finally completed one using only female astronauts that use as chris. back in march and now christina kotch and jessica meyer had their space was cancelled 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 and was designed for media of 2 extra large male bodies which also left out you know,

smaller male astronauts as well not just women station visitors, president donald trump. do you hear me? i just want to congratulate you. what you do is incredible it. 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 and 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 suit 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 the tongue. i was allowed to mix concrete space. see what's concrete release is more c o 2 around the world and then the entire aerospace industry. so if we can examine this traditional material under very specific conditions and space and in the end, put our results into a computer model with that. so, 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 on the by to uninstall space intrusted data. when science is wanted to build satellites, the i ss was always seen as a huge thing, that costs too much, that's office. but if you look at it side, the research that's being done there, and the international community that is 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 bodies. and

that, that could also at 4, whatever that might inside that middle portion of the, the the, the scene at that as this video has a serious story behind it. when i was commander hallowell and it came around the combined the spy, it home to says crew members have survived the a boarded launch of their russian carrier rocket. landing unharmed and catholics done by leaped. there's still use a capsule, 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 from epic signs, i guess flushed out of arkansas 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 sure. i

said to my crew, because after 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, as long as it takes to protect this valuable station. that's whether he puts or fits on tag or that's because that's 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 with maintaining motivation and a sense of togetherness. sorry, so that nobody got frustrated kind of for, for to an outcome. you have to be shut the glass on me. 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. indeed. fire flooding and my 2 colleagues were really creative. by and digging. the sergei worked out a really good elvis costume they gave it was i still laugh when i think about it with us on the honey because when they went to read and serena was the now the

professor when we had a lot of fun respond 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 couldn't. you can see signs of life during the day to come this. but if night life on earth is wonderfully illuminated by all the city lights and got back on february 24th. and we were flying over europe with everything brightly lit to flow. and i just wondered, but the suddenly we came to a dark spot right in the middle of your open window flight was so striking, for at least as has been said, really hit us hard. it is something that happened in that country. indeed,

the whole country had gone dark. that's not what's only the capital keys still visible helps that key of everything else was blacked out so as not to reveal targets for the russian air, straightness of beaten native trigger. we knew it was something we had to talk about. okay, that's because up there were a little family to be honest profession via vincent ed within that family. and do so, if we can only work together efficiently and face the danger is an emergencies that come our way about 20 minutes. i'll skip, we're all pulling together the kind of new my son into an irish dependency. and then obviously it, at some point i grabbed anton from defend his commander rolanda, then also po to are in his russian colleagues stuff and that was but i wasn't able to start an in depth discussion. the tea for the 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 listening to comes well, that's how it was on the $24.00 as the restaurant on piano in the days that

followed. it was relative iced my, my to the tv of the screen. also in addition to the, there was some discussion in western media and the 9 cosmonaut were sending a pro ukraine message for community. but here i think i can correct that here in now condition i the for those suits, had been chosen and ordered a year before the launch on for the color was pure coincidence. i see these are 5 years later i saw all like flying through the station wearing a jacket and like i said, aren't you too warm with that jacket on? i'm here with that. yeah. can you beat around the bush for a bit? 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. if that's the only thing was to fight in some to one and whatnot. another thing that happened was that question,

credit cards were blocked from western services because of the sanctions. i know so that included the music streaming service spot of finance. and on that one of several we were able to use the machine that even open notes. and so all of a sudden my russian colleagues had no music going on with that, that has an impact on the cruise well being out. so we let them use our log and once they hit the thing which isn't entirely legal, i'm all because act, yeah. and that's mine, 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 the bus. yeah. or you can also change one. can see the, the, this is 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 and experimenting on thing we're looking, we're doing more experiments on board the i ss than ever before. is me a experiment as you need so for when 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 with the parental 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. hospitalization,

because the space station is the massive entity instructor who gets well suited to large scale scientific experiments. so now you can do all sorts of things with a theme, a comment on this, but for commercial purposes, it's just too big and expensive. to tell you, maintaining it costs far too much. 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 like to just 2 or $300.00 would be enough. i. that's why smaller ones are being built. now once you get to the klein that we've gone off with uh yeah, yeah, contracts to help develop us commercial space station space. we're flying private astronaut missions to the international space patients 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 u. s. is one of many customers,

not primarily responsible. so we can focus on that job of exploring the on planet or the sort taishan ish bringing it down will be much more technically challenging than ending the operation of the mirror station that's on the yes. as the i ss has a mass of around 420 tons. good. so i'm going to send as things stand today, it won't be dismantled data parts with each heart brought into reentry individually and that's on the whole thing. and it's entirely you will have to be brought into re entry class to be and listen. i need to push a little typical live span of a space station is about 30 years. 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 get see, and that's what i think will happen with the current space station. just as repairs

go up. there companies won't be as interested and they'll let their space stations burn up in the atmosphere and that must be the most uh, boot up with us. we didn't from mirror, we have experience and had to bring a space station out of orbit to be the something near you, which was good. it's no easy task. technically speaking with my phone, it was more than a sample do because i'm a will end up helping my colleagues to make the necessary decisions and to deal with unexpected situations. it's the arise the company or we can stephanie. so thoughts has been able to but i hope this isn't going to happen in the near future and you shall not even though the station has already been an orbit longer than planned to him, but lives on the escape to complete this to nasa is already figuring out concrete scenarios for doing it from leaf model, the process and they know what would happen if the space station had to come down tomorrow. you know, the americans would know exactly how to do it and it can also be if it needs to be t orbited, 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 could stay near this one and there are plans to build

a vehicle, send it up and have it push the i assess out of its orbit. i'm cheap else. obviously a bond cheap. i'm done. then they'd let it burn up over a specific location waters which i'm probably the south pacific, which is also where me are came down that won't take on this. most of it would burn up and a few metal parts would crash into the sea. let me talk to the men to done though, that's a complex operation so that you can't just do it to excel, but it needs a great deal of precise planning email. so the space agencies will definitely be involved on them on to the isn't the homes that are going to and have to stop by the problem in the me. well, the are really sad moment the that's how we felt when the mir station was brought out of orbit because that'd be this done. so they knew that this will be especially said the other more because the i ss wasn't just a place where we weren't in the, to the most, the sensor. it was also a place where we really live to me some of the night they missed

a lot of them with as really is really an opportunity even like me. so 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 and why not. uh 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. was that and that's what you felt like a sheep separated from the her office from the attic it's scanned, would've done mostly kind of like events. and you had to smile because it was such a crazy situation. a and such a privilege that someone out 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, me, well, the smaller and built differently. and then 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. and the i

ss of the encourage 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. is this best advice for you? the secret slide discovered new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating. both heritage spelling, dw world heritage, 360. now they passed into our is whenever

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