you at the top of the hour as close don't go away. and after the break closer focuses on 2 minutes is the biggest extra terrestrial project, the international space. very interesting. i'm gonna have alphas in berlin. the we are all set and we are watching close to the to bring you the story behind the new the will on about come by as information for free might say due to in via it's as astronauts on this spaceship called or 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 in one of the modules were made with russia, u. s. and you're on an old man and a comfortable, it was a new world come where we could work towards a common goal. this is a promising moment to the world had come together. russia strategic nuclear missiles soon will no longer be pointed at the united states, nor will we point hours at them. but 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 talking about some, some of the cost of building weapons in space. russian scientists will help us to build the international space station e cause them overhead. while we were preparing at the johnson space center, there was a poster saying 300 days till the 1st module long. she took up the pen was $200.00 days. so the module on, she's thinking, i remember how it still seems like a long time away. he doesn't know 25 years of combined with that. went by really quick things and see that 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 homestead c 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 this pro time rocket

lift. sorry. it took 4 bits in it successfully made it to orbit and we knew that now we were going to have a mission. we were going launch 2 weeks later. so it was a great joy in my family room that evening. as we all watched our ya launch, it was quite an event. we had a great time, the

the the 3 to one. we have this through ignition and lift off the space, are the ones ever with the 1st american element of the international space. then when it came time to actually entered the space station for the 1st time as we opened the hatch and got it open, i said siri had 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 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 in

surrogate was the 1st rushman, but we entered side by side. you just see the solution with that, because of that before opening the hatch, we decided with both cabanas to move the 1st thing and who will be 2nd to meet there. so when you, when we also talked about why would you move move, you feel really good. we entered the 1st module together. no. then we also went into the 2nd side by side for good with quite deals with mr. then the whole team came up with it and you'll see that the team has coverage began with the later part of the, you know, with the startup, but i did serious it's tradition to keep a lock. those are now, but then we just sit and it was only right in the shuffle. commander wrote the 1st entry community of charlottesville. the quicker was that is for them, it was a start of a pattern that we've been traveling together for 25 years. and if i do to lose what's better than i, i'd like to think i captured it somewhat in the 1st log entry for the international space station. if you read that log book entry and the whole crew assigned it, but it starts at, you know, small beginnings, great things come. and again,

it talked about our, our future in, in what we expected 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 thomas office back then we'd also go to the russians 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 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 all those factors alone were good signs. few these 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 tube of putting all fold it and, and that's not an option. not sonya mama says also, russia had always been a proud nation and they were good at space travel. they were experienced this month if they had, they're still use rockets for decades. they built space stations, but they had a lot of experience with a young young ball. then the americans came along and said, we don't have the experience, but we do have the money. i'm not a. so what happened was that russian experience in the american money, what brought together lessons for the benefit of both falling behind to another kind of that's good. that was the situation back then under the side, unless he's got to i to you know, when i looked at the partnership to 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 that's pretty awesome. and isn't very smooth with us. now when i come into a training module like this one, it feels completely different. i think that's on a blick, before i flew to the i ss, this was all on familiar technology. it was confusing, i'm complex, a care for me, but ever since i spent a year on the i ss, everything in here feels really familiar. is there something you think differently about the equipment because you've worked with it for a long time? yeah. yeah. good phones also toys show even with a space station that's like everything you start to have a sort of personal relationship about. and that's really some doesn't really hit my head and it feels a bit like being at home. it's in the wrong stuff. so in this case, the,

some of this is 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 didn't 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 it's,

it's really hard to tear us or not. so welcome to the coupon. it's about to get really bright in here. that's a hallmark of the cool below. when you come in from the space station and it's light outside, then suddenly it's dazzling. your eyes have to adjust. without this module, we wouldn't 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 group, the shutters, and just that's an amazing view. it's the view that i was dreaming about. 4 years

old moving surely. earth is so beautiful from above. and so it's different to what you imagine that it's nice. it's not like when you zoom in on a satellite image where everything always looks the same zoomed and see this other thing we memorize all of the space station is moving this to the, 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, the

one, the other somersault. oops. now i broken something to the cameras loading. okay. i got it on the phone that's not adverse to 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 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 image and i put on the

some yes, 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 astronaut use as 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 dumb 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. it was designed for the media to 2 extra large male bodies which also left out, you know, smaller male astronauts as well not just women station. this is president donald trump. do you hear me the i just want to

congratulate you. what you do is incredible. it's 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 or the 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 baton on the i was allowed to mix concrete space. see what's 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 that. so, and then we can optimize concrete system and hopefully make a major contribution to combat in climate change, right? it's about getting them clean up under by to uninstall space into off the data. when science is wanted to build satellites, the i assess was always seen as a huge thing, that costs too much, that's all face. but if you look at it, size of the research that's being done there and the international community that's coming together around it all the and it's really historic house in terms of space exploration is one of humanities, greatest achievement. what is either good or some at fault? ok, better than mine in china. and that own portion of the, the,

the scene out that has this video has a serious story behind it. when i with commander, how willing to take around there is come on the spy at home to i guess. as crew members have survived the board launch of their russian carrier rocket. landing unharmed, didn't cause ex, done by leapt there. still, he was a 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 from alex on, but 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 printed and i realized our mission might take a lot longer than we anticipated the slides or falls, cuz they're not in the trip. i said to my crew, because 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 the number to

do black. on their answer was item, as long as it takes to protect this valuable station that's for the heater to fix 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 that's when i'll come in and shut the glass on me. i dropped 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 and the fire products and my 2 colleagues were really creative. i'm digging the sergei worked out a really good eldest costume they gave 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 couldn't. 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 got 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 window slide was so striking for the stuff that didn't fit really hit us hard to it is something that happened in that country . indeed, the whole country had gone dark does not, but the only the capital keep 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, that's because up there were a little family beyond profession via vincent ed within that family and one 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 i'm just one see and then obviously it in, 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 wasn't able to start an in depth discussion of people that said was immediately clear that people had been given completely different information contact info about. so 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 a desktop computer in the days that followed, it was relative eyes to my i thought i'd like to be at the

screen also. in addition, dirty. 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 condition i am 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, aren't you to warm with that jacket on him with the yeah, can you beat around the bush for a bedroom? 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. that's one thing was to fight in some to one and whatnot. 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 they've opened up the so all of

a sudden my russian colleagues had no music 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 isn't entirely legal. i know because act yeah, and that's mind, 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. that's. yeah. or you can, i was inch one country via 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 from and experimenting on to here looking. we're doing more experiments on board the i ss than ever before. has me a experiment as you need so for,

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 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 in 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 we're 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. didn't come out on this,

but for commercial purposes, it's just too big and expensive to tell you, maintaining it costs far too much. so 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 flush, you just 2 or 300 would be enough. right. that's why smaller ones are being built. now once you get to the recliner, 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 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 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. the parts with each part brought into reentry individually and it's on the whole thing and it's entirely you will have to be brought into a re entry class to be and listen. i need to pursue live typical lives span of a space station is about 30 years. are 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 what happened with the current space station. this has repairs, go up and companies won't be as interested and they'll let their space stations burn up in the atmosphere. dealt mostly, in fact, most blew up with us. we didn't from mir and, but we have experience and had to bring

a space station out of orbit to be something near you, which was good. it's no easy task. technically speaking with my phone, it was more than the step with them because i'm a will end up helping my colleagues to make the necessary decisions and to deal with unexpected situations. if the arise goes to somebody or we can, stephanie said, thoughts has been able to, but i hope this isn't going to happen in the near future. our new showing that even though the station has already been an orbit longer than planned to him, but was on the escape trunk. ok. this to nasa is already figuring out concrete scenarios for doing at the, from late model, the process and they know what would happen if the space station had to come down tomorrow, get all 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 gets dana, this one. and there are plans to build a vehicle, send it up and have it push the i ss out of its orbit. i'm cheap, else, i'll do

a bond cheap. i'm done. then they've let it burn up over a specific location. lots and probably the south pacific, which is also where me are, came down the one thing 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. 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. it's a problem. and i got a minute to move me. well, be a really sad moment the that's how we felt when the mir station was brought out of all of it. let's go. so it'd be this done. so new, but this will be especially side. yeah. the more because the i ss wasn't just a place where we weren't 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 i 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. and that's what you felt like a sheep separated from the her office from the attic. it's ken would have done mostly kind of like events and you had to smile because it was such a crazy situation and such a privilege to an ad assisting customer. so the, the, the i s s means to me, cooperation and experts know for me it was most of the teachers stations may well be smaller and built differently than what we might achieve. other unique things like going to mars literacy booth missions we're, all of commodity comes together to achieve something even more ambitious than the i ss of. and because it doesn't let us with it, 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 the best advice for you

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