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In the masters of an identical and science and aeronautics from the university. And selected by nasa in 2000, was a violent aboard Space Shuttle endeavor in march of 2015. And since command of the International Space stations been over 200 days. One of the stars into part of first of the imax film a beautiful planet released in april 2015 and also the author of you from above and is new houston. Before he became, cohost of the astronomy podcast, also the creator of the videos on youtube. Hes been a space journalist for over 20 years. New discoveries in the universe and space expiration. Please joining me and using your zoom class. To welcome terry into your living rooms. Ive got too loud and clear frazier. Its good to see you again. John is good to see you as well. s been so long. Aspirated before we get started with this weeks conversation where i will just ask you every single question of ever been curious about the space wise. Youve got Cool Pictures to share of your experience on board the station. I do. Let me jump into that soda screen chair. The book that were talking about tonight let me find the screen share. I think i have to have permission for one. And is on the way. So how an astronaut, thats what that i really wanted to write, is something that is fun to read. Wanted to have this book that is something that is not technical coming dont have to be a space in order to really get into it. My goal when i run it was for readers to laugh. Im soda memoir part in his million astronaut memoirs is not one of those. Is just something they you can read by the pool or by the beach. Fiftyone short essays. The chapters are all short. Can bring them in any order that you want. Just designed to be a fun, learn something, a lot of the chapters are things that you would expect. And a lot of them are things that you would not expect. Theyve seen another irrational books. So these are a few the chapters that wrote. And of course every good astronaut book starts with lunch. It in a talk a lot about of the different aspects of the launch just getting into your suit. And how complicated that is in the process of getting strapped into a Space Shuttle. It is not exactly like going are getting into your carbonite seatbelts. And then the experience of the launch and all the noise and abuse that i had for you and the sounds of things happening what it felt like to have the experience of the launch. Ive done a lot with the test pilots. Thought the new waves getting into. Actually launched on endeavor was unlike anything that i had done before to say the least. Salons chapters. Cool. I like that part of the story. Another part of life in space, that you probably would expect would be spacewalking and again, getting in that suit that you simeon, nothing three or 400 pounds. In six hours to get into. Astronauts decrease their pressure, they have to worry about the same problems as scuba divers happen that is getting when you changing pressure. If you do it to quickly praise him in hollywood, just on your outside and start fighting the aliens. In real space this whole process takes hours. So long ordeal. So doctor that it was really like to be outside. During this big suit. But this little thin plastic visors party and then on the other side that is instant death. So the threats level of being outside is a little bit higher than doing other things. And abuse that i saw i felt like at times i was saying creation. Like humans are not supposed to see this. And this is gods view that i had to get back to work and plugin small cables. So there are these extremes and 99 percent of the spacewalk his work and than one person is saying is that you cannot so theres a few chapters on spacewalking that is. Fun. My computer just locked up. Can you hear me. John i can hear you. Terry interesting. Let me try and do this. A backup. How is this. John yes we can see it. Terry so another aspect of life in space was i had a chance to fill a movie. I hadnt planned on it but my whole life ever since i was a kid ive been saying, i missing movies. And i love them. Thats what motivated me to be an astronaut. And when i found out that i was going to get a film of beautiful planet. Which was tony myers final film. Shes been a director for all the imax movies going back to the 80s, all the space movies. Shes amazing and its hard for me. Now that ive actually made the movie last year. Hopefully moving into tv infiltrated and to getting this film a beautiful planet was amazing. I ended up taking a lot of pictures. Theres some poor guy here in houston whose job it was to count photos. In turns out that it took more than anybody. I just took a lot. The experience of doing that was. Amazing. I am sitting here staring on my own computer. It. John theres a lot going on in your background. I think it keeps us busy. Their ego go. Terry how is that. Okay. Hopefully my laptop dont lock up again. So this is picture me taking these photos from a beautiful planet. This is actual international in that kukla. It i installed in the last two modules of the cuba. John that was amazing. Terry it was amazing. Its everybodys favorite place. Its an incredible. Can even describe it. So one of the parts of the strongest learning how to be the author freedoms the crew medical officer. Those actually that. So i got to spend a week at the hospital sewing up people and got bit by their pit bulls. In been in car accidents, chemical plants fires in all kinds of disasters. I was learning how to do with these different things. I would always put on the whitecoat what is going through training. And took the stethoscope around my neck. News engineers that houston would volunteer to be guinea pigs that we could poke and prod because we needed practice on people. Is super nervous that i was going to draw blood. He see me and my white jacket. They would take hold of even a doctor and have looked at them, im a pilot. He turned white as my coat. So the medical training, i loved it. I really fell in love with it. Survival training maybe had not think about of the hindu in the air force as a fighter played in case you get shut down. Or you have to go it to a prisoner of war camp. I thought i was done that after going up with the air force and then doing it with the French Air Force that i didnt change with quite a bit when i get to nasa, had to do it with the u. S. Navy. Those part of vanessa turning that i had to do with with the russians. And i also had a new water survival then again and now separated twice in alaska for this kayaking trip. I just spent a lot of my career living in freezing and being hungry. So theres a chapter about all the different experiences there. Flying just something you probably expect is a most important training we get. You can practice the Technical Skills of how to install this piece of equipment and how to do this experiment. But the thing that flying jets gives you more important than anything else is the ability to have your brain, we call it say head of the jet. Had to think five steps ahead and whats going to happen in the future. The good of this in this direction what is over there. Enter doing all of that while your pink but is on the line. If you crash, you died. So simulator what you just in the pause button you go get lunch. So find the air was really good for your mental ability to stay ahead of what is happening. Call it situational awareness. And also stay calm under pressure because of all of the training, almost all the senate simulator. The jets are really like one of the real world things that we do. So flying just was super important for the astronaut training. So one of the things i never expected was to get to know earth by color. And the coop the really helped with that. Also in the station turn right didnt know what was happening. It was the outback of australia. On the bottom left. It really got to know the planet by colors. Canada and russia are white burning in the caribbean is this beautiful blue turquoise green aqua color using the bahamas there. Central africa and south america also, really africa, the congos dark almost black it is so dark there. Australia and saudi in the sahara, and the name of the desert. Theyre all like pink, red, orange nannies really bright colors. So i got to know earth by color. It is something i had not expected. This is Southern Satellite down there. This is the southern whites. And that is just amazing. This amazing illegal alien thing that i have never experienced before. Sing the northern and Southern Lights from above. I need to go see them in person. Ive never seen him in person. John i cant even imagine looking down on them they are assigned to the old. Terry thats definitely in my list. Talk but unexpected. But is russian there. This a threeperson job. He held the vacuum cleaner why i did the cutting. This very stressful. Youll find that chapter. Funny. By cutting her hair something i would never expected to do what is important. Shes most popular italian on the planet. Shes the most wellknown italian. So to make sure they didnt screw that up. So thats a sample of some of these chapters. I apologize for the computer glitch earlier. There is the stop share button. How is that. John say you were able to recover from that near disaster. Thinking on your feet per. On the astronaut training came to the very moment. So read the book a couple times at this point. As a journalist, been reporting on the step for 20 years. Theres a lot in it that i didnt know. And its true. It. Terry this is at least 10 percent true. Suet 10 percent true. But one of the conversations i love it happen with the astronauts is that experience of launching on board a machine like the Space Shuttle. It shows a picture of a Space Shuttle flying away. But can you kind of puts in the seat with you and help us sort of understand what that whole thing feels like. Terry could flying Space Shuttle is like. John yes, what is that experience from shooting up to gideon and then feeling it. Terry okay so the suiting up hard, like i said it takes hours. If the really cool thing when i launched an endeavor. We sat in the same chairs, we are in same room. We plugged into the same oxygen tanks. That neil did. Like the same room. The government doesnt want to pay any money to upgrade the furniture anything. Think theyve upgraded it now. There was no one flowing so i spent money on new furniture. Ikea. Use of the process, the launching itself is amazing. Vanessa pilot, flying the shell hole is really broken down into three phases, the launch normally the computer flies it. We trying to fly it created yet to be really smooth. If you touch the stick a little bit too much. This big giant engines is putting up millions of pounds of thrust will move quickly and will waste a lot of energy. If youre not super smooth, you waste so much energy you cant make it into orbit. You or the one you want to be and so you and up in the lower orbit having to abort. He cant do your mission. So flying on launch into be be very smooth. Once you get on orbit. The flying is completely counterintuitive because an airplane going up faster and catch up and push the throttle up and go faster that catches up. To the guy trying to down. In a spaceship, if youre trying to rendezvous in somebody, you actually slow down which causes you to sink and then it causes you to speed up thats how you catch up. And then you have to speed up which causes you to climb which cause you to slow down and thats how you fly in space. Completely nonintuitive. You make an input and then you wait and you have to wait a minute or two to see what is happening then you make another input. Kind of late watching paint dry. Then we come back to earth, i got to flight a shuttle. When you fullback, you want to climb. Only fullback, the first thing like a Space Shuttle or a barrage or no fo 16, it will sink. When it sinks, the nose comes up and get more angle of attack right in the causes the climb. But you dont want to do is be really aggressive of the stick. Psycho launch launch, because when you coming in to land, oh im coming down and i need to climb. In the first thing a shuttle will do it sinks. So again you have to state a couple steps ahead of it. The Space Shuttles on an airplane you want to flight and the doctors in venice the fly the weekends. And youre going downhill at 20 degrees dives at 300 knox which is basically a divebomb approach and the m16. It is normal to me for his like im not on another divebomb approach. It is a divebombing glider. You only get one shot. You dive in your bluff. Then you touchdown. That is that. There is no more shots after that. So flying the shuttle was awesome and i love it. These new vehicles are great. But the pilots dont have anything to do. Theyre just passengers, not pilots. The just along for the ride. I was fortunate to get to fly the shuttle where you actually get to fly the vehicle. John and youve got a chance to fly a couple of them at this point. The launch of the Space Shuttle in oakmont on the other one. How are those two vehicles different. How does it feel. Terry that shuttles like this big american muscle car. Its big and majestic. As the same way to thrust roughly, is huge. The planet for ten years now. More like of her robbery. Its more like a sports car. Since soviet design and to get up and get moving as fast as he could towards america. It, i mean. Son designed to sit there and go slow and be majestic present boom youre gone. So that was different. Is small, kind of like being in the front seat of your minivan with two other people. These big bulky spaces. John the custom make your seats to 50 and your students. Terry yes and its very, specific. So the scenes to make about a couple of inches above your head. Its a couch singling down a caption that put you in this long underwear. He put you in a crane the straps and if you down into plaster. Like a pig on a stick. Like in germany they had these pig festivals and every august and september. The dippy down there. And then they pull you out with her heart into producing off your own custom fit couch to spine. Because of his ground going so far. Like driving through your neighborhood and running into a telephone pole. Spree budget crash. They have the soft letting rockets. But i suggested that there may name them the less of a crash landing market. In his. Hard. But it works. Civil in order to survive. Have a couple of bruises but i was finding a holdout. It is not nice fancy, is a crash landing on the ground. But it works theres something to be said for simple and working. John points you make it safe and whether youre on the International Space station. How different is trying to get around and just do things in space compared to what youre used to an earth. Terry so we have a saying, everything is more difficult in space. It is almost true. Pulitzer easier than anything else is harder. It everything is floating away when your new guy in the first day or two in space, or the way, its hard to move. We move, you translate. And you rotate. So its not a simple as just walking over to the door. You have to float yourself there. And then spin yourself around. Tell funny stories about that. Then all of the study trying to deal with, that is floating away. So they have these cool shorts, the kind of like policeman on the bike shorts. It this kind of supple guide shorts. But they have like ten pockets and they have locked with the appropriate is to your buckling your tools and your pencil and everything, has been a pocket or ziploc or velcro. Our otherwise influence away immediately. Theres a. Steep learning curve for an intake sent few weeks to three you really good. It. John can you tell us how stuff, which is kind of amazing on a fairly small enclosed space. Stuff just floats away. It. Terry if you give more than a few seconds, it will float away. On my first flight, i have a maglite the little flashlight. In an open of this panel my sunglasses when there. I was working on something. After a few minutes i got this thing fixed. I push myself out. Is looking for the maglite. Out where is maglite. I was dizzy in my head hurt and i couldnt move my head. Simon slowly look around and it cannot find the maglite anywhere. Then, about five minutes later, like my back was itching i thought was going on and reach back in between my shoulder blades was this pencil flashlight and it literally, putting him a short and then it floated around the back of my shirt. Just hanging out back there. So youve got to give yourself a minute to look for something then just stop. You could go to the rabbit hole and just spend your entire day looking for pencil. Usually it shows a. John you admission like a flash card. The perfectly like, can even imagine like 2001, rotating perfectly. Terry im impressed that you remember that story. It was early in the mission. I took the amazing aurora pictures of those so excited. This compact flash card. Best perfectly rotating like this. It is like a slow motion no. In the station has these rocks, like refrigerators with equipment. Or storage or whatever. Just this rock after rock after rock. She said the equipment is. Sick a little halfinch gap this thing literally directly janets hood waited rated because usually if something is income it will bounce right back out. They probably bounced and went sideways. But anyway. Summa that is funny. How long does it take to get to your space legs. From when you arrive to when you are no longer no longer a menace to your fellow astronauts terry to probably good after couple of days. But youre not great for weeks. Theres a. Steep learning curve. For me was the morning of finding three the my headache went away. I felt good but im still awkward. Not efficient in getting tools that the past 40 and a whole two i was getting better. And when i went back for five years later, it took a month maybe. It takes weeks but maybe that was really good. I was the spaceman. Like i could move around brain it was second nature. I had adapted to space.