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So without further ado, he earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics in the United States air force academy in 1989 and a masters of science degree in aeronautics from Aeronautical University and nasa in 2000 he was a pilot at the sts 130 mission of the sports shuttle endeavor in march 2015 he assumed command of the International Space station and spent over 200 days, he is one of the stars and photographers of the imax film the beautiful planet released in 2016 he is also the author of view from above and lives near houston, kaine is the publisher of the universe today and the cohost of the podcast, he is also the creator of the series, the videos on youtube and the space journalist for over 20 years reporting on new discoveries in the universe and space exploration, please join me in using your zoom clap or hard reaction function to welcome terry and freezer into your living rooms. All right, can you hear me . I got too loud and clear, good to see you again. And to see you as well, its been so long. I think before we get started with this weekend conversation i am going to ask you every single question ive ever been curious about spaceflight, youve got some Cool Pictures to share about your experience. I do, let me jump into that, ill do a screen share, the book that were talking about, let me find the screen share, i think is good have to give me permission for that but it is on the way. There we go, how to astronaut is a book that i really wanted to write as something that is fun to read, i wanted to have a book that is something that is not technical, you know how to be a spacer to get into it, my goal was for readers to laugh and say well, those are the two reactions i was looking for and its not a memoir there is a million and this is not one of those, this is something you can read by the pool or the beach that is 51 short essays the chapters are short you can read them in order that you want so is designed to be a fun, learn something, a lot of the chapters are things you would expect and a lot of things you may not have expected to see and that youve seen in other astronaut books, these are a few of the chapters that i wrote and of course every good book starts with launch, and i talk about a lot of the different aspects of launch, first of all just getting in your suit and how complicated that is in the process of getting strapped into a Space Shuttle is not exactly getting into your car and putting on a seatbelt and then the experience itself with all the noise and the views that i had in the sound and things happening and what it felt like, just experience, i had done a lot to the Fighter Pilot and test pilot, i thought i knew what i was getting into and actually launching an endeavor was unlike anything ive ever done to say the least. So the launch chapter is pretty cool, i like that part of the story and another part of license base that you expect would be spacewalking, again, getting in that suit that you see me in, that thing is three or 400pound behemoth, it takes hours to get into, astronauts as they decrease the pressure they have to worry about the same problem that scuba divers have which is changing the pressure if you do it to quickly, in hollywood you throw on your suit and you go outside and start fighting the aliens, and real space this whole process takes hours, it is a long ordeal, i talked through that and what its like to be outside, youre in a big bulky suit, you have a thin plastic visor in front of you and on the other side of that is instant death, so the thread level of getting outside is a little bit higher than other things, the view i felt at times it was creation and had to get back to work and plug you more cables, there is extremes that 99 has worked in 1 is seeing things you cannot imagi imagine, there is a few chapters on different aspects that are pretty fun, my computer just locked up, can you guys hear me . I hear you. Interesting. Let me try and do this, so another aspect of life in space was a got a chance to film a movie, i hadnt planned on it but my whole life ive been seeing imax movies and i love them, thats what motivated me to be an astronaut and when i found out i was going to be a beautiful planet which is tony myers final film hes been a director and he went back to the 80s, shes amazing and a mentor and now that i actually made a movie last year and hopefully unmoving into tv and film, she was my mentor and getting the film beautiful planet was amazing, and of taking a lot of pictures and theres some poor guy in houston whose job it was to count the photos and it turns out i took more pictures than anybody and did not plan on that but i took a lot of photos, the experience of doing that was pretty amazi amazing. Are you able to share your screen. Youre off the screen share. Oi not screen sharing, im sitting here staring at it on my own computer. Theres a lot going on in your back on, i think it keeps us busy but were not screen sharing again. How is that. Hopefully my laptop wont lock up again, this is a picture of me taken the photo from a beautiful planet which it was installed on the Space Shuttle flight. You install that, i did not know that. I installed the last two modules, it was amazing, its everybodys favorite place. Yes. Its incredible you cannot describe it back one of the parts of how to astronaut is learning how to be a doctor i was a medical officer from just a Fighter Pilot but i was a medical officer we got to spend a week in houston at the hospital so we know people that got bit by their pitbull on Car Accidents and chemical plants and fires in all kinds of disasters and i was in the er working and learning how did you with these things, i would put on the white coat and we go through training and put the stethoscope around my neck and these engineers at houston with volunteer to give blood or be guinea pigs that we could poke because we need to practice on people and i walk in and the sky was super nervous because i was going to draw blood and he sees me in my white jacket, how long have you been a doctor and i look at him, im not a doctor im a Fighter Pilot and he turned as white as my coat, the medical training i fell in love without. Survival training is something you may not think of but i had to do in the air force as a Fighter Pilot in case he got shot down or have to survive or have to go into prisoner working and i thought i was done with after doing it with the air force and the French Air Force they didnt exchanger the French Air Force, when i was in nasa had to do it with usaid under navy and with the russians we did winter survival in russia and water survival in russia and had to do it again at nasa twice in alaska for kayaking trip i spent a lot of my career living in the woods, freezing and being hungry, there is a chapter about all the different experiences there. Flying jets is something you would expect, the most important training we do, you can practice the Technical Skills on how to install this piece of equipment and do this experiment but the things it gives you is the ability to have your brain stay ahead of the jet you have to think five steps ahead and what would happen in the future if i go to this direction whats over there and youre doing that why your butt is on the line, if you crash and die just on a simulator where you hit the button and go get lunch flying airplanes is good for your mental ability to stay ahead that Situational Awareness and also stay calm under pressure, all thats in the simulator the t38 jets are the only realworld things that we do. Flying jets is super important from astronaut training. One of the things i never expected was to get snow or bicolor and it really helped without. I tell the story how one day the station turned red and i did not know what was happening and i looked out there was outback of australia, the picture of australia on the bottom left but i got to know the planet by colors that was unexpected, canada and russia are white, the caribbean is a beautiful blue turquoise green aqua color, you see the bahamas, Central Africa and south america also but really africa the congo is dark its almost black it is so dark, australian saudi in the sahara in the desert are all pink, red, orange their really bright colors, i got to know ruth bicolor which is something i had not expected you can see a satellite flying bite on their, this is the southern might and thats an amazing alien thing something i never experience before see the northern and southern lights. I need to see them in person i never have. Their sight to behold i cannot imagine looking down on them. The problem would be national your bucket list gets too long. That is definitely on my bucket list, talk about unexpected having samanthas italian and there is russian, threeperson job he held the vacuum why did the cutting this is a stressful thing youll find that chapter funny but cutting her hair was something i never expected i would do but it was important shes the most popular italian on the planet the most wellknown so i had to make sure he did not screw that up. Thats a sample of some of the chapters and i apologize for the computer go to earlier but there is a stop share button. You were able to recover from your disaster. You gotta think on your feet. I read the book a couple times at this point and as a journalist ive been reporting on this for 20 years and there was a lot in there i did not know and i think some of it is true. In the airport has to be 10 true so this is at least 10 true. One of the conversations with astronauts is the experience of launching onboard machine like the Space Shuttle, he showed us a picture was Space Shuttle flying away but can you put us in the steep and help us understand what it feels like . What flying the Space Shuttle is like. What is that experience from sitting up, getting in and feeling it. The suiting up part takes hours in the really cool thing, we sat in the same chairs we were in the same room we played in the same oxygen takes. The government doesnt want to pay any money to upgrade the furniture, i think they upgraded it now. Now its a stork. There was no one flying, they went to ikea and got some furniture. You go through the process, the launch itself is amazing what is the pilot line the shuttle is breaking out into three phases, there is launch which normally the computer flies, we are trained to fly it and you have to be really smooth, if you touch of the stick a little bit too much the big giant engines that are putting out millions of pounds, they will move quickly and that will waste a lot of energy so if youre not super smooth you waste so much energy you cannot make it into orbit that you want to be in so you end up in a lower orbit and you end up having to abort and you cannot do your mission, flying on launch you have to be very smooth, when she can orbit the flying is completely in counterintuitive because in an airplane if you want to go faster and catch up you pushed the throttle and you go faster and i catches up to the guy youre trying to shoot down, in a spaceship if youre trying to rendezvous on somebody you actually slow down which causes you to sink and it causes you to speed up and thats how you catch up and then you have to speed up which causes you to climb which causes you to slow down and that is how you fly in space. It is complete and nonintuitive, you make one input and then you wait and you have to wait a minute or two and see whats happening and then you make another input, its kind of like watching paint dry. When you come back to earth i got a chance to hand fly the shuttle in the atmosphere, its an airplane when you pull back you want to climb, when you pull back the first thing the Space Shuttle or mirage or an old f1 offset in yara shahidi itll sink in when it sinks the nos comes up and you get more angle of attack and that causes it to climb, what you do not want to do is be really aggressive on the stick just like on launch because when youre coming in, youre like im coming down too hard i need to climb in the first thing the shuttle would do is think, you have to stay a couple steps ahead, the speech shuttle is not airplane you want to fly with doctors and dentist to file the weekend and youre going downhill at 20 degrees dive at 300 watts which is a divebomb approaching the f16, it was normal to me its like im on another divebomb approa approach. Its a divebombing glider in your only got one shot. You dive, pull up and youll touchdown and thats it theres no more shots after that. So flying the shuttle is awesome, i loved it, the new vehicles are great but the pilots dont have anything to do, they are just passengers, theyre not pilots, there along for the ride and i was very lucky and fortunate to fly the shuttle where you could fly the vehicle. Yet up chance to fly on a couple of vehicles and launch the Space Shuttle and launch, how are those two vehicles different, how does it feel . The shuttle is a big american muscle car, it is big, majestic in the same wave, it is huge. It was huge, we havent flown every ten years now, is more like a ferreri in a sports car, it was a soviet icbm, is designed to get out and get moving as fast as it could towards america, its not designed to sit there and go slow and be majestic, its like boom, you were gone. That was different, it is a small, kind of like being in the front seat of your minivan with two other people in the spacesuits. It is how you custom seats and your students. It is a little too small. Specific, the seats that they make a couple inches above your head, it is a couch so youre laying down and they put you in the long underwear and they put you on a crane with some straps and they dip you down into plaster and you like a pig on a stick, they have these pig festivals every august and september and they dip you down, they let the plaster harden and then they pull you out, youve your own custom fit couch for your spying because it hits the ground going so hard is like driving through your neighborhood and swerving over and running into a telephone pole, its pretty much a crash, then the soft landing rockets but i suggested that they rename them the less of the crash landing rockets, it works. You survived. I had a couple bruises, i was fine, i crawled out on my own power. , its not a nice fancy air force landing on a runway, if the navy crash landing on a ground but it works so theres something to be said for simple and working. Once you make it whether on the Space Shuttle or on the International Space station, how different is trying to get around and do things in space compared to what youre used to down on earth. We had a saying, everything is more difficult in space, that is almost true, pullups are easier in space but Everything Else is harder, Everything Else is harder, everything is floating away, it is hard to move around when youre a new guy the first day or two in space or the first week is hard to move when you translate you moving you rotate. It is not as simple as walking over to the door, you have to float yourself and not spin yourself around i tell funny stories and then all the stuff that youre trying to deal with is floating away, thats what gives us cool like policeman on a bike shorts, softball guy shorts that they have ten pockets and lots of velcro, your velcro in your tools in your pencil and everything has to be in a pocket or ziploc or velcro otherwise it goes away immediately. Theres a few chapters talk about that learning curve its a pretty steep learning curve and takes a few weeks before your really good. You talked about how stuff goes missing which is amazing on a fairly small enclosed space, stuff floats away. If you give it more than a few seconds its going to float away, there is a funny story on my first flight i had a little flashlight and i opened up the panel and i stung myself in there, my feet are sticking out and after a few minutes i got the thing fixed and i push myself out and i was looking for the maglite, where is the maglite and i was dizzy, my head hurt i cannot move my head so i had to slowly look around and i cannot find it anywhere and then about five minutes later my back was itching and i was like whats going on and in between my shoulder blades was a pencil flashlight, i literally put it down my shirt and it floated around to the back of my shirt and hanging out back there. You give yourself a minute to look for something and just stop, you could go down a rabbit hole and waste your entire day looking for your pencil and usually it shows up. You had mentioned a flash card that you use on your camera that perfectly, i just imagine like 2001 rotating perfectly and just disappearing into a crack on the station. Im impressed that you remember that story, yes early in the mission i took the most amazing pictures, i was so excited, and a compactflash card, it was perfectly rotating like this and it was like slow motion, no in the station has the racks, the refrigerators of equipment or storage or whatever, it is rack after rack after rack, et al. The equipment is in there is a little half inch gap indirectly down it, i waited if something goes and itll bounce and come right back out but it would probably bounce and then went sideways, anyway. That is funny. How long does it take to get your space legs so when you arrive to