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Political situation, its hard to imagine and such a huge project coming together. Again, were talking about some, some of the concept 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 at the Johnson Space center, there was a post are saying 300 days till the 1st module long check up. The band was 200. 00 days. So the module on, shes thinking, i remember how it still seems like a long time away. He doesnt know 25 years of combined with that. Went by really quickly. This was the most valuable machine human kind is ever built. And also the most unlikely one weve ever built. The 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. I had 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 going to 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 this through ignition and lift the space shuttle. And deborah, with the 1st american element of the International Space. And when it came time to actually entered it, 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. I felt it really important. If were going to have an International Space station we have to enter is an international across. So its to, its 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 see the solution with that because of the for 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 at the we entered the 1st module together know, and we also went into the 2nd side by side for good with cardelia to have missed it. Then the whole team came up with it. And youll see that the team has coverage began beautifully today to part of the, you know, with the, the started, but i did serious its 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 weve been traveling together for 25 years. And if i do to has, whats better than i, id like to think i captured it somewhat in the 1st log entry for the International Space patients. If you read that log book and pre in 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 the working together. And i truly believe thats been the case the we can solve our dreams to distance stars living and working in space for a peaceful, economic and scientific game. Tonight, i am directing nations to develop a permanently man space station. And to do it within a decade. His vision, Thomas Office back then wed also go to the russians room. We flew straight to moscow and said, hey, youve got your mir space station. Lets 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 in many respects, the ninetys 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 duties. And thankfully the collaboration came together and use that soon. At the time, the mirror station was the benchmarks design upside. So 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 for the end. And thats not an option, not sonya mama says also, russia had always been a proud nation. Then they werent good at space travel. They were experienced this one because they had their so use rockets for decades. So they built the space stations, but they had a lot of experience in the young young mall. Then the americans came along and said, we dont have the experience, but we do have the money. Im not a. So what happened was that russian experience and the american money were brought together lessons for the benefit of both falling behind another kind investigate that was the situation back then under the side almost has to go to i to, you know, when i look 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 thats pretty awesome. Isnt granting some what really does. Now when i come into a training module like this one, it feels completely different. I think thats on a blick. Before i flew to the i ss, this was all on familiar technology. It was confusing, im complex a care for me. What ever 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 youve worked with it for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Good phones, also toys show even with a space station thats a him and then you start to have a sort of personal relationship about and thats really some really good for him. And it feels a bit like being at home. And as long as thats on the streets, the some business on the scene in the fall, i 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 didnt 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 its, its really hard to tear astronaut, so welcome to the cooper law. Its about to get really bright in here. Thats a hallmark of the cool below. When you come in from the space station and its light outside, then suddenly its dazzling. Your eyes have to adjust. Without this module, we wouldnt 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 the just minutes before we started this po event . My colleagues here actually they gave me the on an opening, the cooper, the shutters, and just thats an amazing view. Its the view that i was dreaming about. For years. I love you. Surely earth is so beautiful from above. And so its different to what you imagine, what it does is nice. Its 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 the space station is moving this to the, the solar panels are moving the space ships, doc, it and on. I dont, 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 one the, another somersault. Oops. Now i broken something, both the cameras flooding. Okay. I got it on the phone. And 1st it took me a while to control my body and cause i was constantly bumping into things are colliding with the other crew again, it was quite funny at 1st. But by now youre expecting to be able to control your own body and not be constantly knocking things off the walls and kind of understand the stylus one image. And i put on the some, you know, the 1st time a 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 astronauts. It used as good back in march, and now christina kotch and Jessica Meyer had their space was cancelled at short notice because they had nothing to where he does not mix up succeed 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 werent designed for women in mind and was designed for a medium 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. Its so youre very brave people. I dont think i want to do it. I must tell you that a but you are amazing people. Theyre 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 were changing the new space suit so that they do take into account a 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 whats concrete release has 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 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 . Its about getting them clean up under by the learning style space and just the data when science is wanted to build satellites. The i assess was always seen as a huge thing, that costs too much thats offers. But if you look at it, size of the research thats being done there, and the International Community thats coming together around it all the and its really Historic House in terms of Space Exploration is one of humanitys greatest achievement is either good or some at full, okay. Better than mine, so i think that on the, the, the scene out that has this video has a serious story behind it. When i was commander hallowell and it came around the, come on the spy at home to i. Yes. As crew members have survived, the boarded launch of their russian carrier rocket landing unharmed, didnt cause ex, done by leapt. There still use capsule had to make an Emergency Landing after a major propulsion failure, northland us. Astronaut nick, hague, and russian cosmonaut alexi of t mean had been due to join the crew of the International Space station onto i lied to him for alex on that guess flushed out new york is here to come. I understood that i was now commanding a crew of 3 on the space station. Ones is printers and i realized our mission might take a lot longer than we anticipated the slides or falls cuz theyre not enough to i said to my crew because theyre 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 the number to do black on their answer was item as long as it takes to protect this valuable station that for the he could for fits, one tiger with as we said, food done this month, it was part of my task to keep the crew spirits up a mid that uncertainty by knowing that this one too much, but maintaining motivation and a sense of togetherness. Sorry, so that nobody got frustrated. And of course thats when ill come in and shut the glass on me. I brought the darth vader costume because i just had a feeling it might come in handy though. I didnt know how it was turned out to be perfect and the fire products and my 2 colleagues were really creative. Im leaving this saturday. Worked out a really good eldest costume. They gave a, it was, i still laugh when i think about it was getting on the honey because when they went to read and serena was the 90 professor when we had a lot of fun spot the, this, the i would expect it was by far the status day of my 6 months in space and when you were up there it could. You can see signs of life during the day and you kind of thought if night life on earth is wonderfully illuminated by all the city lights and not back on february 24th. And 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 winter flight was so striking for at least as happens, it really hit us hard. It is something that happened in that country. Indeed, the whole country had gone dark. Thats not whats 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, strikes us the beaten native trigger. We knew it was something we had to talk about, okay, thats 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 im still on c and then irish meeting. At some point i grabbed anton from defend his commander rolanda, then also po to our in his russian colleague stuff. And that was, but i wasnt able to start an in depth discussion to 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 terrorism in the country. Ive been listening to the listen to comes well, thats how it was on the 24 as their strength and pencil in the days that followed. It was relative eyes to my i thought id like to be at 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 me, see if i hear if i think i can correct that here in now just one im yeah for those suits had been chosen and ordered a year before the launch on 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, arent you to warm with that jacket on for the im him at the yeah. Can you beat around the bush for a bedroom . And then he said, we only have yellow sweaters and were 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 wouldnt have to go around the station wearing his jacket. Thats the only thing was to fight in some to one and wouldnt it to another thing that happened was that question. Credit cards were block from western services because of the sanctions. I know that included the Music Streaming Service spot of finance and or one of several we were able to use the sheet that theyve opened notes. And so all of a sudden my russian colleagues had no music in 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 isnt entirely legal. I know because act yeah, and thats 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 that. Thats yeah. Or you can also respond. Can see the, the, this is us. Couldnt the quote, but there were many reasons the, i ss, came into being the most important was cooperation void. Theres still a huge demand for experiments and technologies from and experimenting on to who looking. Were doing more experiments on board the i ss than ever before. Has 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 isnt going to be a successor to the i ss as we know it today. And its making that weve 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 and space as well. And so with the things that we have learned that will allow us to us to be able to know that we have the right systems Going Forward to the moon. And were learning what we need to go to ours. Yeah. Offsets on this on 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 it. Things come out on this, but for commercial purposes, its just too big and expensive. To tell you, maintaining it costs far too much. Thats why private companies now want small but sophisticated space stations and noticeable they dont need thousands of square meters of living space. I would flush, you just 2 or 300 would be enough. All right, thats why smaller ones are being built. Now once you get to the client that weve gone off with uh yeah, yeah, contracts to help develop a commercial space station space. Were 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 earth, the sort taishan ish bringing it down will be much more technically challenging than ending the operation of the mirror station thats on the d. Yes. As the i ss has a mass of around 420 tons. Good. So im going to send as things stand today, it wont be dismantled data parts with each heart brought into re entry individually and some of the whole thing. And its entirely the will have to be brought into a re entry class to be and listen. I need to push a little typical lives span of a space station is about 30 years. Are its like a car after 15 years and it needs more and more repairs. And you start to think about getting something out just obviously its by the sea and thats what i think will happen with the Current Space station. This has repairs go up and Companies Wont be as interested and theyll let their space stations burn up in the atmosphere. Dealt mostly in fact, most blew up with us. We didnt from mirror, but we have experience and had to bring a space station out of orbit to be the something meter e, which was good. Its no easy task. Technically speaking to play football, he was mostly set up with them because im a well end up helping my colleagues to make the necessary decisions and to deal with unexpected situations. Its the arise the company or with me stephanie. So thoughts has been able to but i hope this isnt going to happen in the near future and you shall not, even though the station has already been an orbit longer than the plan take him but was on the escape to create this to nasa is already figuring out concrete scenarios for doing it to the from late model the process and they know what would happen if the space station had to come down tomorrow, get off 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, its done in a way that we learn from it gets day. Notice one. And there are plans to build a vehicle, send it up and have it push the i ss out of its orbit. Im cheap, else ill do a bond cheap. Im done. Then theyd let it burn up over a specific location waters which are probably the south pacific, which is also where me are came down and think on this. Most of it would burn up and a few metal parts with crash into the sea. Let me talk to the men to done though, thats a complex operation so that you cant 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 isnt the homes that are going to and have to stop by. Its a problem and i got a minute to move me. Well, be a really sad moment the thats how we felt when the mir station was brought out of orbit. Lets go. So itd be this done, say mute, but this will be especially said the other more because the i ss wasnt just a place where we werent in the system to. It was also a place where we really lived with me assembly. I moved to north the midst of cut them with n, as really is really an opportunity. Me to give 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 theyre doing, how theyre doing. Got the moment in mind. 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, thats what you felt like a sheep separated from the, her office from the attic and wouldve done mostly kind of like events. And you had to smile because it was such a crazy situation. 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 future stations may well be smaller and built differently than what we might achieve. Other unique things like going to mars literacy boot missions were, all of commodity comes together to achieve something even more ambitious than the i ss of the incurs this in the city. We all know that we can only solve the worlds major challenges by working together and the i ss was the best proof that thats possible. Yes. Is this the best advice for you . The. Ready swim phone is internal to do a struggling, skyrocketing feed costs and disease, especially numeric system. Insect feed sources could help they cheat nutritious and then the defense peptide, and which insects are shrimps. They actually become more or less. This tends to diseases. Eco india dealer in the 1st few minutes on d w the. 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