Thank you. I realize i stand between you and lunch. So im going to try to blow through the presentation and do any questions. People ask me where i get the idea to go into space. Then we will get to eat. People ask me where i get the idea to go into space. I am not a professional astronaut. Had a lot of training in that area. About 11 years ago, i was sitting in a starbucks in princeton, new jersey. I read his story about how the Russian Space agency would take private people into space. It was just one of these wow moments. You are not a big planner or thinker. You want to do something, you go and do it. That is what got me to go into space. As you know, the original idea of the show was to take the average person up and let them experience space. Because of the accidents, that was cut out. The only way a private person like me could go up is via the Russian Space agency. Though i am not a trained astronaut, you cannot hop on a rocket and go up. Theres a lot of training required. I spent six months in russia outside of moscow, training for my mission. Here are some of the things. It was a fulltime deal. It was like being a College Student again. I was in star city russia, the version of johnson spaces and are space Center Training grounds. The hardest part was trying to learn russian. When you are 60 years old trying to learn a foreign language, not easy. Can we all right. Good. Ok. Some of the training, you do not have to be an olympic athlete, but you have to be in reasonable shape. This is me in the middle of the astronauts. And the russian astronaut commander. We train a lot, got to know each other. We were talking about psychological stuff. We had to go out to jsc for a week and a half as part of our training. Nasa gave us these rorschach tests. The sort of things where you go in and say, how can i get out of here with a right answer . [laughter] russians did not do any of that. I do not think they paid attention to psychology. But i found out after my training is that, every week, they would get together with instructors and psychological people and say, what about this guy olsen . How does he behave under stress . Does he get along with people . It may have been a better system, i do not know. But anyway, as you say, fair amount of physical training. What else do we have here . Testing my spacesuit. I do not know how nasa does it but in russia, they stick you in a bathtub and fill it up with foam. When that hardens, people you out with an overhead crane. So it is kind of a custom fit like a bride at a wedding. This is just make sure it does not leak. World war i gas mask. Another russian thing. But very effective in case of fire or toxic leaks. The bottom of sorts absorbs Carbon Dioxide and gives you 45 minutes of protection. Also, survival training. Theres is designed to land by parachute, much like the apollo capsule. They land in the desert of context on. Kazakhstan. 70 of the earths water, so we practiced surviving in water. One of the fun parts, which you can do for 5,000, is called zero gravity trading. There was a company in florida zero g, that does this. We did it during our training. You go out in a plane in freefall for about 30 seconds in a parabola. Get to experience weightlessness. Just gives you the feeling. I guess they check out if you are going to check out if youre going to get ill. We mentioned fear earlier, and that is a question i get asked about. Fear. The worry i had from the beginning is house going to be afraid. Before i got up to the solution 76, i wonder, am i going to do ok in this . Am i going to get sick in this plane . But i actually got to do it. It was all right. Just when i was climbing up the rocket, we were about to launch. I feel ok now, but what if i get up there and freak out . Fortunately, i did not. For my fear was always before the actual event. Not during the event. I will let you read this about the iss. I think most of the people in this room know this stuff. The space station is roughly 240 miles above your. It varies a bit. You orbit every 90 minutes. You get to see 16 sunrises and sunsets every day. This is what a soyuz looks like being pulled to the launchpad. I had friends and family come over. You can see they are a little less formal about the whole deal then nasa would be. They let people get up and touch the rocket while it is being t owed out. Being my age, can you imagine saluting a russian general . That is growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. Heresy, but there i am. With toga ref tokorev and macarthur. Russians are very ceremonial. A lot of traditions they employ. This is what it looks like inside soyuz. We had to sit there for 2. 5 hours. I was stupid to have two cups of tea before the launch. [laughter] we all wore diapers, and we all got to use them. Because there aint no facility. Here is the actual launch. October 1, 2005. We are sitting up at the top. It takes less than 10 minutes to get into orbit. You go from zero to over 17,000 miles an hour in less than 10 minutes. About 3. 5 times the force of gravity to get up there. As others describe, you feel like you are being pushed back and you and can hardly lift your arm. Everything is floating and that is when you know you are in orbit. It only took as 10 minutes to get into orbit that you cannot just smash into the space station so we had to do a do orbits so we could get up to the velocity and duck. Now, they only have to do4 or 6 orbits. Once you are in orbit and everything checks out, we can take our gloves off and open the visor. Im carrying a sony video camera. Some of the photos you will see here i actually had a Little Pocket camera i was able to slip into my space suit which is a story you need to tell over a beer. I had a great view. You can see i had a window. The first 50 miles, we had a shroud. All of the sudden, i hit heard an explosion. I saw this big, blue sphere. Here is our docking at the space station. Remember, we are doing over 17,000 miles an hour at this time. Soyuz is highly automated. As walter said, they do not leave much for the commander to do. You pretty much just sit in your seat and watch things happen. People ask what was the best part of being in space . Other than magic, that is it. Just loading back and forth was such a great feeling. I got to experience it on soyuz and on the iss for 10 days and it is a great feeling. Here is the view looking out. Like i said, big blue sphere is what i remember. We are going to do some ham radio afterwards. I was a ham operator in high school. I did a presentation in my high school in new jersey yesterday and there were 300 kids in the audience. I said, how many had ever heard of ham radio . Three hands went up. They did have an amateur radio session and i got to do a. M. Session with them. Also at Hamilton High school in brooklyn where i was born. How do you drink water in space . This is how we did it on the iss. [laughter] you can understand now why there were no showers and sinks on the iss. The russians tried to use a shower. They had a plexiglass cylinder and from what i heard, it did not work well. We used wet wipes and cleaned ourselves off every morning. How do you eat in space . We ate canned goods or dehydrated foods. I think it has improved a lot since walter was in space. This is sergeuii. [laughter] that is John Phillips and the background. He brought slim jims as snacks. That was his special food. [indiscernible] even astronauts cannot use video cameras. [laughter] we have been trying without success to sell this to slim jim for an ad. Almost everybody has some medical issue and space. In sppace. I had some small copd issues. I was required to take medication during my flight and this is showing how he use an inhaler how you use an annular an inhaler. I like to show kids that just because you have a disability, it should not limit you. This is for demo purposes. Here is some emailing. Took me about three takes to do this because you keep bumping into the sides. Again, newtons law of inertia. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. A thing i point out is, notice there is no shoes. The space toy that everybody talks about. Here is asked not John Phillips into the flower shirt. Bill macarthur, who just arrives, does the install. John did not like my comments. You see this hose with the elephant the yellow funnel. That is the urinal that astronauts used to collect urine. It is basically a vacuum cleaner hose. You turn on motor m open valve v. I will not get too graphic about describing it but i will point out two things. Number one, the diameter is smaller than you are used to. You have to think about centering ourselves. When you are bouncing around weightless, that is not easy. Gravity is not helping you out. You want to slam that laid shot as soon as you are finished slam that lid shut as soon as you are finished. The first time i used it, someone was snickering outside. Sleep anyway you want. I had a sleeping bag. The commanders had their own booth. It does not matter how you sleep, the important thing is that you can find your self confine yourself. I had a company, sensors unlimited, that made nearinfared cameras. This was a video link so all of the engineers could get the cameras. Here are some of the chips that we make at sensors unlimited. I made cufflinks out of these for all of the engineers who built the camera. I am sure many of you know who that guy is. The first human to orbit the earth. A little more physics. This demonstrates moments of a nurse shark, the resistance to rotation moments of inertia the resistance to rotation. If you do this at him, it does not like to rotate at this at home, it is not like to rotate at this axis. That is the intermediate one the one it does not like. It wants to go about the longest moment of ownership inertia. These next photos i got from nasa. This is what the iss looked like in 2005. It is a lot different now. This will stay there with a crew for six months. I came down in a different soyuz. The first thing i had to do when we docked was take my seat and move it to the soyuz here. So, we slowly back away and we do about an orbit and a half. We are traveling over 17,000 miles an hour. When we get to that 60 mile layer, you will encounter friction. That habitat module, that is loaded with garbage we want to throw away. Then, another module which as a heat module on top. Anything on the heat shield will burn up. We have to enter the atmosphere somewhere over argentina. Once you are in, you have very little control once you start getting into the atmosphere. We had a little tumbling. We had an air leak where we lost 30 of our air. I did not think it was a big deal at the time because this is the sort of thing you rehearse. In trading, it shows you what you are supposed to do when your air supply is going down. All i was supposed to do whiskey my mouth shut and my hands off until the commander said, o xygen. Typical russian thing they have a lot of spring force so you do not accidentally open this. Holding this open with a space glove was excruciating. I told myself, you cannot let go. Fortunately, the leak stabilized and we did ok. In answer to an astronauts prayer, the thing i remember is when we landed in kazakhstan i was relieved. Once you get below a thousand miles an hour you can see there is a big invitation in the ground. That is why you have the chair big invitation indentation in the ground. We were on the ground for about 10 minutes until the search and rescue team game and got as. When you are waitlisted, you are pretty dizzy when you come back down to earth. They treat you like a medical patient. Maybe six hours later at the landing in kazakhstan, i was back in my dormitory in star city. Every 15 minutes, someone would come in and job a needle or give me a cap to fill. My a cup to fill. My mission went well. My capsule is now on display, along with the shuttle. You can see some good stuff there. The shuttle and concorde, that is back when we were taking some risks. I feel it is unfortunate we are not taking those kind of risks to advance not just space, but aviation in general. It reminds you help will and innovative we once were. Would i do it again . In a heartbeat. I loved it. If you want to read anymore, i have a book on the internet called by any means neccessaryy. Thank you i will do questions or you can eat. On october 12, 2008, Richard Garriott launched aboard a shuttle to the International Space station as a selffunded astronaut. He returned 12 days later. He became the First American to be a secondgeneration space traveler, following in his fathers footsteps. In october he talked about his journey in new york city. This is about an hour. I want to introduce richard because richard is key at the explorers club. He is the only man on our board of directors who has flown into space. He has more credentials than all of us on the board combined. He has a really cool scar he is going to show you
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