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Otherwise thank you for your attendance this afternoon and this evening where we were joining us from today. Earning a bachelor science degree in mathematics from United States air force academy 1989 master aeronautical science degree from and pre Aeronautical University accepted by nasa a pilot with the mission will Space Shuttle endeavor march 2015 took command of the International Space station spending over 200 days on it one of the star photographers of the imax film. Planet release 2016 also the author of the view from above. And next to a publisher and cohost of the podcast also the creator of those on youtube a journalist for over 20 years with new discoveries and Space Exploration please join me to use your functions to welcome us into your living room. Can you hear me . Loud and clear. Good to see you again. It has been so long. [laughter] before we get started with this conversation i will just ask you every single question about spaceflight. You got some Cool Pictures to share on board the station. The book we are talking about tonight. It is a book i really wanted to write and is something thats fun to read , something not technical you dont have to be a space nerd to get into it my goal was to say laugh and wow those are the two reactions are looking for is not a memoir is just something to rebuy the will or the beach 51 and short essays he put them in the order that you want so its designed to be fun and learn something a lot of the chapters are what you would expect some more things you may not have expected so these are just a few of the chapters that i wrote and of course every good work starts with launch and those different aspects just getting in the suit and how complicated that is in the process to be strapped into a shuttle isnt like a seatbelt with their views and the sounds of things happening doing a lot is a Fighter Pilot i thought i knew what i was getting into launching on endeavor was like anything ive ever done the launch was pretty cool i like that part of the story another part of life and spaces spacewalk. Again getting in the suit three or 400pound behemoth it takes hours to get into astronauts as they decrease their pressure they have to worry about getting the bends when you change pressure if you do it too quickly so in hollywood you throw on the suit and go outside and fight the aliens put in real space process takes hours it is a long ordeal. Than what its really like to be outside in this bulky suit you have a thin plastic visor in front of you and on the other side is instant death. The threat level to be outside is a little higher than doing other things. The views that i saw at times i felt i was seeing creation. Humans are not supposed to see this but then i had to get back to work to plugin cables so there are these extremes and then the 1 percent you cant imagine. There is a few chapters on that. Now my computer locked up. Can you hear me . I can hear you. How is this . So another aspect of life in space i got a chance to film a movie. I plan on it but my whole life the studies that is what motivated me and when i found out i would get to film a beautiful planet, the director for all imax movies going back to the eighties and as a mentor for me now that i made a movie also at the tv and film and was my mentor getting to phone beautiful planet was amazing there is some poor guy here in houston whose job it was to count photos and take more pictures than anybody i just took a lot of photos so that was pretty amazing. Screen on share your screen again. Im staring at my own computer. There is a lot going on with your computer. There you go. Hopefully my laptop will not walk up again. Here pictures from a beautiful planet. And on the Space Shuttle flight. You install the last two modules quick. It was amazing. Its incredible you cannot describe it. So one of the parts is learning how to be a doctor is a crew medical officer just a Fighter Pilot but i was a crew medical officer so i can spend a week at the hospital in houston sewing of people that got bit by their pitbull or chemical fires and disasters i was there working on them learning how to deal with these different things. I loved it. Anthony story going to training with the white coat up with a stethoscope around my neck. The engineers in houston would volunteer to give blood just to be guinea pigs so we could practice and i walked in and this guy was super nervous is that how long you been a doctor i said i am a Fighter Pilot. He turned as white as my coach. [laughter] medical training i loved and fell in love with that. Survival training i had to do in the air force as a Fighter Pilot in case you get shot down and have to survive or the prisoner of war camp. I thought i was done with that after the air force because i did in exchange with the French Air Force now with nasa i had to do it is on this with the navy and then with the russians because winter survival and water survival in russia and then again with nasa in alaska for a kayaking trip. A lot of my career being hungry and freezing so there is a chapter of all the different experiences there. Flying jets is what you would expect. The most important training we did and the Technical Skills how to the six do this experiment but the thing that flying jets gives you is the ability to have your brain to think five steps ahead will happen in the future so to go in this direction what is over there and doing all that while your butt is on the line. Is not a simulator hitting the pause button and go get lunch so the flying airplanes is good for your ability to stay ahead of what is happening with Situational Awareness and to stay calm under pressure because of all the training the t30 eight jets are one of the only real world things that we do. Flying jets is super important. One of the things i never expected was by color and that really helped with that and how the station turned red i didnt know was happening i looked out and there is the outback of australia on the bottom left but i got to know the planet my colors canada and russia are white caribbean is a beautiful blue turquoise aqua green Central America and africa its almost black it is so dark. Australia and saudi and the sahara and namibia are all pin pink, red, orange, bright colors i got to know it by color which is what i didnt expect. You can see the satellites this is something i never experienced before. Spoken need to go see them in person. They are a sight to behold i cannot imagine looking down on them but the problem with being an astronaut your bucket list gets too long. So to talk about unexpected samantha is italian and this is a three person job he held the vacuum cleaner this is very stressful. The chapter is pretty funny cutting her hair was something and never expected i would do but it was important. Shes the most popular italian on the planet. The most wellknown side to make sure i didnt screw that up. That is just a sample of some of the chapters and i apologize for the computer glitch earlier. There is the stop share button. You have to think on your feet and then all came at that very moment i have been reporting on this and their things i did not know. Some of it is true. In the air force it only has to be 10 percent true. [laughter] one of the conversations i love to have with astronauts is the experience of launching on the Space Shuttle