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deploy a drag chute added part way through to make the landings safer and prevent wear and tear on the tires and brakes and make the roll out safe. we have a three-mile long runway at kennedy space center for that. that was sts 110. now i would like to transition a little bit to the space station today. it's a partnership of five space agencies, 15 countries. it has been continuously inhabited for over 11 years and close to a million pounds of hardware and space. dimensions are larger than a football field. a pressurized volume equivalent to a five-bedroom home. 200 people have lived...

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 ta...