Of my lighting to l. E. D. S. I put probes in all of my electrical meters. I found ways to improve things. Little things, biodegradable trash bags, china paper plates are 100 recycles. I still use them. Trash bags, i would like to use biodegradable trash bags they are shipped 50 on top of each other and eight folded so theyre not on a roll and they dont have a draw string or elastic in them. I wont use them because theyre inconvenient. Its really just packaging and distribution. I have been consulted with austins strategies board, look here is some firsthand knowledge im gaining about trying to live that way with things are easy to adopt and others wont adopt unless we fix the form factor of the delivery of these solutions. Were going to take a break and come back with a new speaker to finish the program. A big round of applause for richard garriott. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015 in 2011, nasa cady coleman performed a flute duet with ian anderson founder of the rock band. It was a salute to space flight. Anderson discussed his interest in the space race and then introduced coleman nasas most senior astronaut as an event of the explorer as club in new york city. This is about 50 minutes. Who knew that ian anderson, front man for the seminal rock group jedge row actual is a space aficionado. He was impacted as much by events in the americarussia space race has his fellow baby boomers. Over the years he has wrote space references to his tunes. Welcome, ian, we were honored and wish you were here in person. We understand youre performing in pennsylvania today. That is correct, yes. I am needed elsewhere. Otherwise i would love to be there. Well, we got a lot of astronauts in the audience and space people, so i think the first people people want to know is what got you interested in space in the first place . Well, as you rightly said clearly at a time when we had just come out of a fairly meaningful world war and us young kids growing up in the 50s were aware of first of all, the incredible cultural significance of americas presence in the world at that time. Its obviously aid to come into the war and without woman i dont think we would have won. We first of all have that sense of indebtedness to the u. S. A. , but it led to fascination of what was going on as things developed over those next few years, the impact of american culture, of tvs and movies and then of course the rise of the cold war tensions, the development of Rocket Science and where that took us. I suppose by the time that i was 10 years old i was devouring anything to do with rocket ships and the earliest forms of Science Fiction which were becoming lovely again as a result of american Science Fiction writers available in the u. K. So into my teens, i suppose i got to know a lot of fanciful motions about rocket ri and interplant ri travel. I knew it was intran sickly a little overly optimistic during my lifetime. I concentrated a bit more on the evolution of what was really happening out there in the momentous words of your expresident j. F. K. When he said we choose to go to the moon and do these other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard, which became a bit of a motto in my life. I took great notice of that, it resonated with me as a school boy and along with a mantra of my old school in latin which means let us follow better things. So the optimism about those two mottos have sort of guided me through those years. By the time i got to visit america for the first time in 1969, of course, that was the year of neil and michaels expedition and the big excitement, but the world felt on that momentous day and i think for once, the world gathered and congratulated america as probably close as america has ever come as having universal approval and everybody buying into that little sense of ownership of we homosapiens got there we hopeo tapens did it whether we were americans brits or ruskies. We all shared in that moment. You were so interested in that moment that you wrote a song on the benefit album . Thats correct, yeah. We just touched upon that i suppose the lonely man in the command module Michael Collins who tends to be rather forgotten, but of course it was more or less drawing up straws as to who got to put the boot prints on the lunar surface. The guy who probably had in some ways had the most unenviable job was Michael Collins. We know that contingency plans had to be there if what happened if the other two guys hadnt had made it back. He would have to return home alone to planet earth. It made him in the hours he was alone in the command module, certainly the loneliest man in the universe facing that possibility that he might have to leave his buddies. Given all of your interest in space do you have any interest in spending some money with the russians to fly up to the space station . No, if you asked me to climb up some step ladders to get something from the top shelf im probably going to try to find a willing alternative volunteer because i have no head for heights. I think even getting me to the top of the soyuz rocket, i would be suffering from so much vertigo, i wouldnt be going anywhere. So no, im not made of the right stuff. I am pretty much, im 98 a rock star. [laughter] well, your flute has certainly been up to space and you and your astronaut friend, cady coleman, during a flight duet in 2011. Could you tell us a little bit about that experience and then do the honor of introducing cady to our audience of explorers and astronauts today . I certainly will. I think someone on the radio world in texas who knew a friend or got to know a friend of a friend of cadys, had a relationship, passed the word to me, but she was a keen amateur flute player. Maybe i want to get in touch with her which i did and it was arranged that she would take not only my flute, but her flute because i pointed in the right direction to spend her entire annual astronaut salary of buying a shiny new flute to take into the i. S. S. Mission with her. So she has my flute, her flute she also had a flute from one of the chieftains, an irish folk band and another member of the chief takens. She went heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction in a very, very small allowance of personal baggage. Tonight, ian anderson and i would like to honor uri for his journey 17 years ago and the role they play in the expiration of our universe by sharing some music between earth and space. Ladies and gentlemen of planet earth, give a warm welcome to that space rock chick of the flute, cuddly cady on the outside but a steely hardnosed professional underneath, look out, here comes colonel catherine coleman. [applause] i think the other explorers were taller than me. That was pretty wonderful for me to cen and the what for me to see ian, and the way he comes across and every interaction ive had, he has a respect and knowledge about the program and i think on this journey that we take ever your hearing from several astronauts, you feel privileged to do it and it the same time it is fun to have someone to talk about with and he was one of my favorite people to do that with. The friend of mine in houston had found him for me he mentioned how little we get to take to space and these days we get to take three pounds of things. It is not very much. When i was on my way up, the Space ShuttleProgram Delayed just enough to know that there would still be a shuttle coming up there while i was there and what that meant was whatever i took would have away home. Its not so much about getting it up there but getting it home so i had about two weeks to find someone and find some things and bring them. My friend wrote to his manager and said, cady needs one person and not several people, it has to be very efficient and someone who will be reliable and make this happen within a week. He wrote this note to me by email and said, i have been known to be reliable, i take showers and i am white clean and neat quite clean and neat both days. So today i wanted to share a little bit what it has been like for me. I have been an astronaut since 1992 i dont know if it makes me sound old but i am the most senior active astronaut still in line to go back to the space station, having said that the line is pretty long but it is wonderful to be in it. I have flown twice on the shuttle and once on the station and it is a very special place some of the things you have seen today, they are all incremental steps and all of us here who have an interest in exploring, we are all part of these journeys. I thought i would show a series of photographs from the space station heart of things so we can understand more what it was like to go. This is the irish flute i took up for the chieftains, we have talked about fear here several times and i will show you what i do in my job and i am trained and there is every reason to be confident that you can do what you need to do but playing on stage with these people that is scary. Totally scary. [laughter] it is wonderful to have the instruments up there, but before you do this or this, there is a lot of things to learn. I tried to think about what people in the Explorers Club might be most interested in hearing about, you go to a place that looks small but is this my laser . On the top of it working on it. There we go. We live in this piece right here which is about 10 train cars put together, it is quite a large and wonderful lace. Place. Some of the lessons we need are lessons in how to get along with people and to make the most of the experience. This is my favorite picture of going to antarctica and this was my neighborhood, this is the ice in antarctica and this little. Is our camp this little dot is our camp and i was not a camping girl seriously not. Living in a scott tent, amazing they are still the way to go, for six weeks collecting meteorites. Altogether we collected about 1000 meteorites. I had already been to space at the time i went to antarctica and i learned a lot about myself and being in a small group. Four of us were about 250 miles from the south old intents in tents for six weeks. You dont have to be best friends with everyone, you have to figure out that you need to get what you want out of things not by yourself, but you need to be content within yourself. I brought my a picture of my time with our twoyearold and my husband in the back of the room there i was a lastminute replacement for this expedition and i got a phone call from someone that said you were a volunteer for that antarctica thing in three weeks are you still a volunteer . I said absolutely, i will go tomorrow, i will discuss this with my family and will make a Family Decision and i would call you in five minutes but you can think in that yes kind of way while i am gone of the right back. My husband was very supportive and i finally looked at him and said do you realize i am not taking the baby with me. Me . Is he here . He is, in the back. [applause] everyone who goes on adventures here, part of your team is probably not with you where you go. There are all sorts of folks and we have a big some or team in terms of people who make me feel like i can go away and do these things and be doing the right wings by my family. It was an amazing place and i learned a lot about myself and i did get to learn live underwater by myself in a habitat i dont know about the rest of you but when i was up there i did not meet anybody knew. Under the sea you have neighbors, you see the food chain in action. This was a habitat and six of us stayed there, my dad was the supervisor diving salvage for the navy and was into exploring the notion and it was normal exploring the ocean and it was normal and to get to where this diving suit and do my own tradition was very meaningful and a lot of folks that support this were people that knew my dad. This is the bottom of our habitat and the place we stayed a small space few people and you meet every ounce of everybody on your team. Our mission at that point was to understand and exercise tell a robotic surgery i was worried it would be on each other but it turns out it is on these dummies and it was pretty interesting to learn how to do that, i can take out a mean gallbladder if any of you want to stand in line but learning that this kind of robot which is common in hospitals, we could not get the second and third robot arms with us. Part of the reason we have studies is to understand what will keep us from having tell a robotic surgery at the edge of the battlefield where surgeons cannot be so close or on the way to mars and places where things are isolated. We want to understand how to take people like this and bring them to a place we have not been. This is my expedition crew, we are sitting in front, for that journey i wanted to share a little bit of what it was like to do and expedition as a family. This is my husband job and my son jamie and we love to fly and see places from riled wild angles. From their perspective i did not get to vote on when i went so december was the time december 2011. Im sure bill has better pictures of the space museum in moscow but it is a piece of stone and metal that makes a statement this is what it is like to launch into space, it is not an easy thing and this monument says that. And to understand what it was like to live in a different country to realize that this place where everything is different, my mom spent time with those folks having to understand what it was like with them. This is the first woman to go to space and it was really amazing to meet her i met her several times. She wanted to make sure we had tea before i went to space. A wonderful woman. It was a traveling adventure, we traveled in russian airplanes which isnt quite like traveling from here but you meet the folks up front and feel fine about it. When the guy goes down the aisle and picks up the door and takes a big wrench and Bank Something and shuts the door and goes back and bangs something and shuts the door and goes back to the cockpit it is not the most confidence inspiring, but he was confident. Here we are, my stepson josias who is 31. We are in white coats in quarantine. This is our quarantine they invite the press in for a day and this is the sign outside the quarantine and i have a very clever and enterprising husband so even though there are rules there are rules and we follow them but there is always a way. It is nice to say goodbye and i was worried about whether my son would think spaceflight is exciting he is not under arrest but i will say that rockets are rocket but getting to meet the swat team in florida when i launched and the Russian Military those were high on his list. I was sure with the nasa supervision that everybody was doing fine while i was doing my last training exercises and getting ready to go. They were under the leadership of their father. We got to plant a tree, a great russian tradition. It may not look like a tree and probably still doesnt because it was planted in december but that is my tree. My husband said there is a Little Planet at the base of that tree and to me there are all the signs with all these astronauts named on them names on them and it is a special group to be a part of their in part of. I didnt get to launch the rocket, i saw the backup rocket go but we were in for renting at this point that the family gets to see the rocket in the rocket on the pad. This is a demonstration i dont know how that gets on there but if you could turn the sound off completely that would be great. One little question that comes up on the screen i love this because it looks like animation but it is not. It is about a three minute video that shows the launch and getting ready. I like to show how small it is. This is a demonstration of you can you think sound on the computer its well itself. If not we wont do too many videos, this is the hotel you stay in, the russian priest blesses everybody and im waving behind glass and my son and my husband i baked the guys to take i begged the guys take small steps and short ones and they did not this and, the whole film it looks like i am running the rocket. Then lunch. We are up in that tiny little part of their. There. It is hard to describe and watching is terrifying because it takes a long time for the rocket to leave the pad and it is hard when youre watching hoping everything is fine but your inside suddenly it starts and it is going and you realize you are not stopping. I did the same rendezvous 34 orbits that great did and now we are up in the space station this is my favorite scene in the film even though it shows my backside, it is not about floating around it is like living on a different planet and you fly from place to place. This was the launch of my familys point of view walking to the bus saying goodbye. This picture makes me cry because it is hard to leave folks on the ground and i think we explore as families after launch everybody is celebrating and i had 12 friends and family that came to the lunch and john levine, the mountain climbing friend was interested in coming to the Explorers Club and we never spend a saturday together so it was great for us to be together. Now i live vicariously through john because he goes on these cool expeditions. There is the crew, somebody who will look familiar is scott kelly the twin brother of mark kelly married to gabrielle giffords, that happened gabrielle was injured while we were in the space station together and scott is on his way to spend a year in space. He is a neat guy and it was wonderful to be up there, he was commander for part of that time and i will introduce the rest of the crew here. The thing i would like you to look at in this picture is to realize this is a picture of all of us really excited about going to space. And you know, this is a picture of us excited about going to space, if you find a picture of our crewmate in the middle, every picture of him he looks like that not because he is not excited, it is just his way. One of the many lessons we all needed to learn each other learn about each other to get along in a place this big and the small. We had a very important job to do and today is a good day to talk about it and i was the second person to capture a free flying supply ship. In this case we are capturing the japanese supply ship and i am the robotic arm operator and just this morning as Walt Cunningham was finishing his talk the space station crew released the Spacex Dragon which is the fifth of their ships to be at the International Space station. It is something that now happens as a commonplace event for us on board it is not commonplace when this thing comes up next you it is the size of a school bus and this is where that performance factor and knowing you have done your homework comes in and one of the things i tell people when they havent done it