international space station today. if we can go ahead and show that. so this was april 2002. our commander is sort of front right there. a graduate of the air force academy, mike bloomfield, colonel in the air force. seven of us going up on the space shuttle atlantis. there were already three astronauts and cosmonauts onboard the space station so by the time we got there we were actually a crew of ten. i m the flight engineer so i m sort of in the middle in the back row supporting the commander and pilot during the dynamic phases of flight during launch, raendezvous and of coure taking off with 300 pounds of thrust is pretty exciting on a florida afternoon there. as you know the solid rocket boosters only operate for the first two minutes of launch and then essentially all of the solid rocket fuel is used up and they separate away from the rest of the shuttle and then we go the rest of the way on the shuttle main engines. once we get into orbit, we start preparing for the r
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