>> WELCOME TO THE KENNEDY
ENGINEERING PRESENTATION.
THIS IS OUR FIRST SESSION
OF 2018.
WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM
MICHAEL JOHANSEN WHO IS
A RESEARCHER IN
THE EXPLORATION RESEARCH
TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE.
HE IS GOING TO GIVE US
SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE UNIVERSITY.
HE'S A PARTICIPANT FROM
LAST YEAR AND YOU-- HOPEFULLY
YOU REALIZE THE CALL IS OUT
FOR THIS YEAR.
I'M NOT GOING TO STEAL
HIS THUNDER AND LET HIM GIVE
SOME OF HIS LESSONS LEARNED,
HIS STORIES, SOME OF THE THINGS
HE'S GOING TO TELL US
AND BRING BACK FROM
HIS EXPERIENCES ABROAD.
>> THANK YOU, MICHAEL.
SO, AS MICHAEL SAID, MY NAME
IS MICHAEL JOHANSEN AND
I'M A RESEARCH ENGINEER HERE
AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER,
BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M GOING
TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT TODAY.
TODAY, I'M GOING TO TALK
TO YOU ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE
AT THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE UNIVERSITY'S
SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM.
SO, I WAS A PART OF THE 2017
EDITION, WHICH WENT FROM
JUNE TO AUGUST OF LAST YEAR.
EVERY YEAR THE SPACE STUDIES
PROGRAM IS HELD AT DIFFERENT
LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
IT'S BEEN HELD IN AUSTRIA,
FRANCE, THE UNITED STATES,
CANADA, AND IN THIS CASE,
IT WAS HELD IN CORK, IRELAND.
NOW, CORK IS THE SECOND
LARGEST CITY IN IRELAND,
OF COURSE, SECOND ONLY
TO DUBLIN.
AND SO, HERE'S AN IDEA
OF WHAT THE CORK CITY CENTER
LOOKED LIKE.
THERE WAS LOTS OF WATER
EVERYWHERE AROUND US.
IF WE WANTED TO, FOR EXAMPLE,
GET OFF CAMPUS FOR A BIT
AND HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT
THAT WASN'T THE CAFETERIA
FOOD, WE'D COME DOWN
TO THE CITY CENTER.
SO, I LIKE THIS PICTURE
BECAUSE IT SHOWS THE DIVERSITY
THAT'S IN CORK, AND PROBABLY
ONE OF THE REASONS WHY
IT WAS HOSTED IN CORK, IRELAND.
SO, HERE, YOU CAN SEE
ALL THE DIFFERENT TYPES
OF RESTAURANTS THAT ARE FOUND
ON THIS ONE STREET IN CORK.
SO, IT'S A CITY IN TERMS OF
IRELAND, BECAUSE IRELAND
DOESN'T REALLY HAVE
BIG CITIES.
BUT IN TERMS OF FROM
UNITED STATES STANDARDS,
IT'S ACTUALLY-- IT'S ACTUALLY
PRETTY SMALL.
AND THIS IS WHERE I SPENT
MOST OF MY TIME, AT THE CORK
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.
THIS WAS ACTUALLY A REALLY
COOL CAMPUS.
SO, THIS IS A MODERN
BUILDING, BUT IT WAS MADE
TO LOOK LIKE AN OLDER BUILDING.
SO IT ACTUALLY HAD
SOME FEATURES OF IT THAT WERE
SORT OF CASTLE-LIKE.
AND I SPENT MOST OF MY TIME
HERE, IN THE ARCHITECTURE
FACTORY, WHICH IS NOT PICTURED.
SO WHEN YOU GO TO IRELAND
YOU MIGHT EXPECT THAT
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THINGS
LIKE THIS-- MAYBE SOME SHEEP
AND SOME GREEN GRASS,
SOME FLOWING WATER, AND SOME
OLDER BUILDINGS AND THINGS.
AND MAYBE YOU'LL SEE
SOME NICE FLOWERS OR A PLACE
TO STOP AND HAVE SOME TEA.
SO, THIS IS ACTUALLY A HOTEL
THAT IS IN A LOCAL TOWN
IN IRELAND.
AND YOU MIGHT EXPECT THAT
YOU'D SEE THINGS LIKE
SMALL ROADS.
OF COURSE, EUROPE IS KNOWN
FOR ITS SMALL ROADS
AND ROLLING HILLS.
AND OF COURSE YOU'D THINK
THAT YOU'D SEE
THE CLIFFS OF MOHER.
THIS IS A VERY ICONIC PLACE
IN IRELAND.
AND MAYBE SOME CHURCHES AND
SOME INTERESTING STRUCTURES,
AND OF COURSE SOME CASTLES,
LIKE THE BLARNEY CASTLE.
BUT I WAS A PART OF
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM,
WHICH MEANS THAT I DIDN'T HAVE
A WHOLE LOT OF TIME TO DO
ANY OF THAT SORT OF THING.
SO, HERE'S AN IDEA OF
WHAT DAY 1, WEEK 1
OF OUR SCHEDULE LOOKED LIKE.
SO WHAT I WANT TO POINT OUT
TO YOU IS THAT THINGS LIKE
PERSONAL PREPARATION TIME
WERE BUILT INTO OUR SCHEDULE.
SO WHERE WE GOT SHOWERED AND
GOT READY FOR THE EVENING,
THAT SORT OF THING WAS
BUILT INTO OUR SCHEDULES.
AND SO, YOU MIGHT SAY,
"MICHAEL, THIS IS JUST ONE DAY.
"IT'S THE FIRST DAY.
"SURE, YOU WERE BUSY,
"BUT THIS CAN'T POSSIBLY
"BE SUSTAINABLE."
SO HERE'S AN IDEA OF WHAT
THE FIRST WEEK LOOKS LIKE.
IN THE FIRST WEEK WE DID
20 LECTURES, ALONG WITH
WORKSHOPS, AND SOME OTHER
THINGS THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT.
AND SO, IF YOU STILL DON'T
BELIEVE ME, HERE'S AN IDEA
OF WHAT WEEK 2, WEEK 3,
AND WEEK 4 LOOK LIKE.
THE POINT IS, THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE UNIVERSITY IS NOT
SOMETHING THAT YOU DO
BECAUSE YOU WANT TO VACATION
IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY.
AND WHILE IT'LL PROBABLY BE
THE BEST 9 WEEKS--
CUMULATIVE 9 WEEKS
OF YOUR LIFE, IT'S NOT
SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE GOING
TO DO AS A VACATION.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO THERE
AND JUST SEE THE CITY OR SEE
WHEREVER IT IS THAT
YOU'RE GOING.
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
UNIVERSITY IS FOUNDED ON 3 Is.
THOSE 3 Is STAND FOR
INTERNATIONAL,
INTERDISCIPLINARY, AND
INTERCULTURAL.
SO THIS IS A CLASS OF SPACE
STUDIES PROGRAM '17,
112 PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTED
BETWEEN 26 COUNTRIES.
ABOUT 50% MALE,
ABOUT 50% FEMALE.
IT WAS A LITTLE HIGHER
ON THE MALE SIDE, BUT
THEY WERE REALLY STRIVING FOR
50/50 THIS YEAR.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT
THERE'S PROBABLY A WIDE
AGE GROUP IS HERE.
OUR YOUNGEST WAS 22 AND
OLDEST WAS 62, AVERAGE AGE
WAS 35 OR SO.
SO YOU CAN DEFINITELY SEE
THE INTERNATIONAL ASPECT
OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE UNIVERSITY.
AND MAYBE YOU CAN ALSO
IDENTIFY BY LOOKING AT
THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE,
THE INTERCULTURAL ASPECT
AS WELL.
SO IN THIS ROOM THIS IS
WHERE WE REALLY GOT TO MEET
EACH OTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME
BEFORE OPENING CEREMONY.
THIS IS IN THE CORK CITY HALL
AND HERE ARE ALL THE FLAGS
LINED UP, GETTING READY
TO MARCH IN FOR
THE OPENING CEREMONY.
THIS IS WHERE YOU REALLY
START TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT EACH OTHER.
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE KIND OF
LEARNING ABOUT EACH OTHER'S
PERSONALITIES AND DIFFERENT
CULTURE THINGS.
THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS
ALL RUSHING THROUGH YOUR HEAD
AT ONE TIME, YOU CAN IMAGINE.
YOU'RE PROBABLY NEVER
IN THE SAME ROOM WITH SO MANY
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE
EVER AS YOU WOULD BE
IN SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
SO THERE ARE COUNTRIES
THAT ARE WELL REPRESENTED,
COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA.
CHINA HAD BY FAR
THE GREATEST REPRESENTATION.
THERE WERE 25 PARTICIPANTS
FROM CHINA THIS YEAR AND
NOT ALL OF THEM ARE PICTURED
HERE IN THIS PICTURE,
UNFORTUNATELY.
AND THEN, COUNTRIES THAT
YOU MIGHT EXPECT AS WELL--
ENGLAND, SO THERE'S ABOUT
TEN FROM ENGLAND AS WELL.
BUT THEN, THERE ARE
COUNTRIES THAT YOU MIGHT NOT
EXPECT, COUNTRIES LIKE--
OR COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT
AS WELL REPRESENTED AS WELL,
COUNTRIES LIKE JAPAN.
JAPAN HAD TWO
REPRESENTATIVES THIS YEAR.
THIS IS [ INDISTINCT ]
AND DAISUKE.
AND PORTUGAL, SLOVENIA,
OMAN, SWEDEN.
SO THESE ARE THE COUNTRIES THAT
ARE NOT AS WELL REPRESENTED.
AND IMAGINE THE PRESSURE
ON THESE PEOPLE, RIGHT?
BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY
REPRESENTATIVES FROM
THEIR COUNTRY.
TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA
OF THE DIVERSITY IN THE GROUP,
WE HAVE STUDENTS, WE HAVE
MEDICAL DOCTORS, ENGINEERS,
A WIDE RANGE OF TYPES
OF PEOPLE.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE HAVE
THE UNITED STATES.
THE UNITED STATES HAD
12 PARTICIPANTS THIS YEAR.
TWELVE PARTICIPANTS
THIS YEAR, SO THERE I AM
HOLDING THE AMERICAN FLAG.
SO I WAS ELECTED BY MY PEERS
TO BRING IN THE AMERICAN FLAG
DURING THE OPENING CEREMONIES,
AND THEN STANDING NEXT TO ME
IS THE ONLY OTHER
NASA REPRESENTATIVE.
THAT'S CHANCE GARCIA FROM
MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER.
THE ONLY OTHER GOVERNMENT
REPRESENTATIVE IS THE LADY
ON THE OTHER END, ANNETTE PARKS,
WHO WORKS IN-- FOR THE FAA
IN COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT.
AND THEN, THE REST ARE
MADE UP OF LAWYERS,
ENTREPRENEURS, FILM MAKERS,
STUDENTS, SO THERE'S A WIDE
DIVERSITY EVEN WITHIN
THE AMERICAN DELEGATION.
SO LET'S TALK A BIT ABOUT
THE TYPES OF PEOPLE THAT ATTEND
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM.
ABOUT 50% HAVE
A MASTER'S DEGREE AND 40%,
ROUGHLY AT LEAST, HAVE
A BACHELOR'S DEGREE.
A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IS
REQUIRED FOR THE PROGRAM.
AND THEN, THERE WERE A FEW
PEOPLE THAT HAD PHDs AS WELL.
SO OF THE 112 PARTICIPANTS,
THERE WERE 10 PEOPLE OR SO
THAT HAD PHDs.
SO THIS GRAPH HERE IS
WHAT I [ NO AUDIO ]
TALK TO YOU ABOUT.
SO THIS SHOWS THE DIVERSITY
IN THE GROUP.
AND SO, OF COURSE YOU DON'T
EXPECT TO HAVE A SPACE PROGRAM
WHERE YOU'RE NOT SEEING
A LOT OF ENGINEERS, RIGHT?
YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT,
50% ENGINEERING.
BUT THEN, IT'S THIS OTHER
PIECE OF THE PIE THAT'S
REALLY INTERESTING.
WE HAD MEDICAL DOCTORS,
WE HAD LAWYERS, WE HAD
OF COURSE ENGINEERS AND
SCIENTISTS, WE HAD STUDENTS,
WE HAD CRUISE SHIP SINGERS,
FOR EXAMPLE.
THERE WAS A CRUISE SHIP SINGER,
SO YOU'LL HEAR ME TALK
A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT
OUR CRUISE SHIP SINGER,
STEPHANIE MOTTERSHEAD,
THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION.
SHE IS A GOOD REPRESENTATION
OF WHAT THE SPACE STUDIES
PROGRAM IS ALL ABOUT.
YOU DON'T NECESSARILY
HAVE TO BE AN ENGINEER
OR A SCIENTIST TO REALLY
DO THIS PROGRAM.
YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE
AN INTEREST IN SPACE AND MAYBE
SO MUCH OF AN INTEREST
IN SPACE THAT YOU'RE WILLING
TO GIVE UP YOUR SUMMER,
BUT YOU'RE NOT REALLY.
YOU'RE JUST DOING SOMETHING
THAT'S PRETTY MUCH
THE ONLY THING THAT
YOU'LL DO THAT SUMMER.
SO IF GIVEN-- SO I'VE
INTRODUCED THESE PEOPLE
TO YOU, BUT NOW, I'D LIKE
AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE
THEMSELVES INTRODUCED
BY THEMSELVES.
>> I THINK SSP IS LIKE A WINDOW.
THROUGH THAT YOU CAN SEE
SPACE, BUT NOT ONLY
SPACE-- CULTURE,
MOST IMPORTANT IS FRIENDSHIP.
MY NAME IS [ INDISTINCT ].
>> MY NAME IS [ INDISTINCT ]
AND I COME FROM PERU.
>> MY NAME IS LISA
AND I'M FROM MONTREAL,
QUEBEC, CANADA.
>> SO HI, MY NAME IS
[ INDISTINCT ], SO
I'M FROM FRANCE.
>> MY NAME IS DILLON O'REILLY
AND I AM FROM IRELAND.
>> MY NAME IS [ INDISTINCT ],
AND YOU CAN ALSO CALL ME
[ INDISTINCT ] BECAUSE
I LIKE IT, AND I AM FROM INDIA.
>> SO MY NAME IS
ANTONIO MARTELLO.
I AM FROM SPAIN.
>> MY NAME IS MARSHALL McKELLAR.
I AM FROM SOUTH MISSISSIPPI.
>> MY NAME'S MARCEL KAUFMANN.
I AM FROM GERMANY.
I AM RESIDENT OF NETHERLANDS
AND SOON MOVING OVER
TO CANADA.
>> I THINK THE TYPE
OF PERSON THAT WILL TAKE
THE MOST OUT OF THIS PROGRAM
IS THE PERSON THAT IS
FULLY INVESTED IN TRYING
EVERYTHING, WHO IS REALLY
AIMING TO GET OUT
THEIR COMFORT ZONE, LEARN
SOMETHING NEW, AND BE OPEN
TO NEW EXPERIENCES.
>> NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE,
WHERE YOU COME FROM,
OR WHAT YOU'RE DOING, SSP WILL
CHANGE YOU IN SOME WAY.
IT WILL GIVE YOU A DIFFERENT
PERSPECTIVE, IT WILL
CHALLENGE YOU, AND IT WILL
REWARD YOU HUGELY.
>> I HAVEN'T GOTTEN SLEEP
IN A FEW DAYS AND IT'S BEEN
REALLY HARD, BUT IT'S REALLY
WORTH IT.
[ MUSIC ]
>> JUST TRY.
THERE'S NO RIGHT OR WRONG.
BUT AFTER YOU TRY YOU'LL FIND
SOMETHING INTERESTING.
>> IF YOU WERE ABLE,
NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE,
NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE,
NO MATTER WHAT YOU STUDY,
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU WANT
TO WORK IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY,
OR IF YOU JUST LIKE
THE WAY THE MOON LOOKS,
THINK ABOUT PARTICIPATING
IN THE SSP PROGRAM.
NOT ONLY WILL YOU LEARN MORE
THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT
YOU COULD LEARN, BUT YOU WILL
GROW MORE THAN YOU EVER
EXPECTED TO GROW.
>> I TEND TO THINK THAT
WE HUMANS ARE KIND OF SIMILAR,
BUT THERE IS-- THIS IS MORE
DIFFERENCES THAT MAKES A HUGE
DIFFERENCE AND I THINK THAT
I AM GOING TO LEARN FROM
ALL OF THEM.
AND FOR THAT,
I'M REALLY GRATEFUL.
>> WHAT I'M GOING TO TAKE
HOME FROM SSP IS A LOT
OF GOOD MEMORIES, OF COURSE,
A LOT OF NEW CONTACTS AND
NEW FRIENDS, MAYBE A BIT
OF SELF REFLECTION
ON MY CAREER, ACTUALLY,
ON WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO
AND WHAT IS OUT THERE.
>> SO [ INDISTINCT ] THAT
THE CULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL
ELEMENTS OF THE SPACE STUDIES
PROGRAM ARE WHAT MAKE
THE PROGRAM UNIQUE.
THIS YEAR, I WANTED
TO INTRODUCE VARIOUS NEW
ELEMENTS INTO THE PROGRAM,
TO INTRODUCE A LOT OF
INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP,
AND A LOT OF HOT TOPICS
TO ACQUAINT THE PARTICIPANTS
WITH THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL
TRENDS IN THE MARKET.
>> IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING
FOR GRADUATES, RECENT
GRADUATES, BUT ALSO FOR
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CHANGE
THEIR CAREER, WHO WANT
TO GET INVOLVED INTO SPACE,
WHO WANT TO GET CONNECTED,
AND YEAH.
>> FROM THE BOTTOM
OF MY HEART, I WANT TO THANK
ALL OF THE ORGANIZERS, I WANT
TO THANK EVERY SINGLE PERSON
THAT WAS INVOLVED.
YOU'VE CHANGED MY LIFE.
I'M SURE YOU'VE CHANGED
MANY OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES.
SO THANK YOU FOR THAT, AND
BECAUSE OF YOU, MY FUTURE'S
GOING TO BE A BIT BRIGHTER.
>> SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT
THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE UP
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM,
BUT WE SHOULD ALSO TALK ABOUT
WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO
IN THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM.
SO IT STARTS DAY 1
WITH OUR CORE LECTURES.
OVER THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS
WE CONDUCTED 63 LECTURES,
COVERING SEVEN DISCIPLINES.
THOSE SEVEN DISCIPLINES
INCLUDE THINGS LIKE
HUMANITIES, ENGINEERING,
APPLICATIONS, MANAGEMENT
AND BUSINESS, POLICY ECONOMICS
AND LAW, HUMAN PERFORMANCE
IN SPACE.
SO THERE'S A WIDE RANGE,
THERE'S A GOOD DIVERSITY
OF THE CLASSES THAT
YOU'LL TAKE AT SOME PART
OF THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM.
THERE'S ROUGHLY ABOUT SEVEN
OR EIGHT LECTURES IN EACH
OF THE TOPICS, SO IT'S PRETTY
EVENLY DISTRIBUTED.
SO OUR FIRST LECTURE WAS
BY DR. JEFF HOFFMAN,
FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT.
BUT HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT
THE ENGINEERING ASPECT
OF THINGS, HE TALKED ABOUT
THE HUMANITIES OF SPACE FLIGHT,
OR THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN
SPACEFLIGHT, AND MAYBE
A LITTLE BIT OF THE RATIONALE.
WHY DO WE CHOOSE
TO GO TO SPACE?
LECTURE 3 WAS TED RO FROM
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER AND
COVERED THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS
OF SPACE ACTIVITIES.
WE ALSO HAD THINGS LIKE
THE INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN
PERFORMANCE IN SPACE.
SO WE STARTED OFF FAIRLY
GENERAL, AND THEN AS WE LEARNED
A LITTLE BIT MORE WE DOVE
DOWN INTO MORE SPECIFIC TOPICS.
SO THESE INTRODUCTORY LECTURES,
LECTURE 12, INTRODUCTION
TO HUMAN PERFORMANCE,
THEN LEAD TO OTHER THINGS
ABOUT SPECIFICALLY
WHAT HAPPENS TO BONE AND
MUSCLE IN A SPACE ENVIRONMENT.
SO THIS IS MORE OF
AN INTRODUCTION.
AND THE IDEA WITH THESE
LECTURES IS THAT IT GIVES US
THE OPPORTUNITIES TO ALL BE
ON THE SAME PLAYING FIELD.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE LAWYERS,
BECAUSE YOU HAVE MEDICAL
DOCTORS, YOU NEED TO TEACH
A LITTLE BIT OF THE ENGINEERING,
SO WE TEACH THINGS LIKE
ORBITAL MECHANICS.
BUT THEN, ON-- THE ENGINEERS
OF COURSE DON'T KNOW
EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW
ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, HUMAN
PERFORMANCE IN SPACE
AND THOSE SORT OF THINGS.
WE ALSO COVERED THINGS LIKE
THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM.
SO THIS LEAD INTO MANY MORE
LECTURES INTO REMOTE SENSING
IN SPACE AND GPS SATELLITES,
ALL THESE SORT OF THINGS
LATER ON.
THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST
MEMORABLE LECTURES FOR ME.
THIS WAS CULTURAL RATIONALES
FOR SPACE ACTIVITIES.
THIS IS DONE BY PROFESSOR
JIM DATOR FROM HAWAII
AND HE'S INTEGRATED INTO
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM
AND ISU IN GENERAL.
AND THIS WAS MORE ABOUT
HOW DIFFERENT CULTURES LOOK
AT SPACE EXPLORATION, OR
EXPLORATION IN GENERAL,
AND HOW YOU CAN APPLY THAT
TO SPACE EXPLORATION.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE UNITED STATES
ARE NATURAL EXPLORERS, RIGHT?
WE STARTED OFF SMALL
IN THE NORTHEAST, AND THEN
OVER TIME WE'VE SPREAD
TO THE WEST AND SPREAD SOUTH.
SO FOR THE UNITED STATES,
EXPLORATION MAKES A LOT
OF SENSE IN SPACE.
WHERE OTHER COUNTRIES AREN'T
NECESSARILY AS INTERESTED
IN SPACE EXPLORATION
AND THEY'RE INTERESTED
IN NURTURING THEIR OWN
ENVIRONMENT AND MAKING--
AND SO, IT JUST DEPENDS
ON WHAT IS CULTURALLY THE MOST
IMPORTANT FOR THAT GROUP.
SO THIS WAS A VERY
INTERESTING LECTURE
AND MAYBE NOT SOMETHING
THAT YOU'D EXPECT GOING
TO A SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM,
BUT THIS JUST SHOWS
THE DIVERSITY IN OUR LECTURES.
AND THEN, THIS WAS ONE
OF THE MOST VALUABLE LECTURES
I WOULD SAY FOR THE ENGINEERS
AND THE SCIENTISTS IN
THE ROOM-- COMMUNICATING SPACE.
SO WE'RE OFTEN TAUGHT TO--
FROM AN ENGINEERING
STANDPOINT-- TO READ
A TEXTBOOK OR TO ANSWER
SOME PROBLEMS OR WRITE RESEARCH
PAPERS, THAT SORT OF THING.
BUT HOW OFTEN ARE WE
ACTUALLY TAUGHT HOW TO
EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE
THESE IDEAS?
AND ESPECIALLY
TO DIFFERENT AUDIENCES.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF I'M TALKING
TO A UNIVERSITY, HOW DO I--
HOW DO I TALK TO THESE
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DIFFERENT
THAN I'M TALKING TO
A GROUP OF 3rd GRADERS?
ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT DIFFICULT TOPICS,
ALL THESE SORT OF THINGS
THAT ARE COVERED WITH
SPACE EXPLORATION.
SO THIS WAS A REALLY
INTERESTING LECTURE.
AND JUST A BIT OF A SIDE
NOTE, SO I LEARNED A LITTLE
IRISH WHILE I WAS THERE,
AND THIS NAME IS NIAMH.
SO M-H, B-H, V-H ARE ALL
THE V SOUND, SO THIS IS NIAMH
AND I'LL-- OTHER NAMES LIKE
THAT-- MEDBH, AND OTHER THINGS
ARE ALL SPELLED
A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
OWEN, E-O-I-N.
SO I GOT TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THE IRISH SUBSET
OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AS WELL.
SO THOSE GO ON FOR THE FIRST
FOUR WEEKS, BUT AT THE SAME
TIME WE'RE ALSO DOING
DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES.
DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES START
ABOUT WEEK 3 OR SO
AND GO THROUGH WEEK 6, SO
IT'S A THREE WEEK THING
WHERE WE DIVE DEEPER
INTO ONE OF THE TOPICS THAT
YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN.
SO NOT EVERYBODY DOES EVERY
DEPARTMENT, BUT IF YOU'RE
AN ENGINEER YOU'RE ENCOURAGED
NOT TO DO THE ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT, BUT MAYBE DO
SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
SO IN THE ENGINEERING AND
THE APPLICATIONS GROUP,
THEY DID THINGS LIKE LAUNCH
WEATHER BALLOONS AND ROCKETS.
SO TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA
OF THE TYPES OF PEOPLE THAT
DO THESE THINGS, THESE ARE--
THIS IS OUR CRUISE SHIP SINGER,
STEPHANIE MOTTERSHEAD,
AND A LAWYER,
MARSHALL McKELLAR, AND
THEY'RE LEARNING HOW TO
BUILD ROCKETS.
SO THEY'RE STEPPING OUT OF
THEIR COMFORT ZONE AND DOING
SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
AND ANOTHER THING THAT
WE WOULD DO IS THINGS LIKE
SITE VISITS.
SO THIS IS THE APPLICATIONS
GROUP AND THEY VISITED
IRELAND'S TELEPORT.
IT'S A PLACE WHERE LOTS
OF INFORMATION FROM SPACE
COMES DOWN TO EARTH
AND THEN IT'S SPREAD
ALL THROUGHOUT EUROPE.
AND SO, THEY LEARNED ABOUT
HOW WE TAKE OUR ENGINEERING
ASPECTS OF THINGS AND HOW
WE ACTUALLY APPLY THEM
TO REAL WORLD SITUATIONS.
SO THIS IS COOL.
THIS IS-- THIS WAS SOMETHING
THAT CAME OUT OF OUR WEATHER
BALLOON LAUNCH.
SO THEY HAD A SCROLLING--
THEY HAD SCROLLING IMAGES
OF ALL OF OUR PICTURES
AND THEY TOOK OUR PICTURE
OF OUR PICTURE FROM THE EDGE
OF SPACE.
SO THIS IS ABOUT
100,000 FEET OR SO, AND
THERE I AM IN SPACE.
I WAS A PART OF THE HUMAN
PERFORMANCE IN SPACE
DEPARTMENT AND THE REASON
WHY I CHOSE HUMAN PERFORMANCE
IS BECAUSE I WANTED TO DO
SOMETHING THAT WAS STILL
TECHNICAL BUT SOMETHING THAT
I DIDN'T KNOW A WHOLE LOT ABOUT.
SO A LOT OF WHAT I DO
IN RESEARCH IS RELATED
TO ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, OR THINGS
WITHOUT A HEARTBEAT, SO
I WANTED TO LEARN A LITTLE
MORE ABOUT HOW THE HUMAN
BODY AFFECTS-- IS AFFECTED
BY THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT.
SO WE DID THINGS LIKE LEARN
HOW TO DO CPR.
SO OF COURSE, THERE WERE
MEDICAL DOCTORS AND NURSES
AND THINGS THAT WOULD HELP US
LEARN THESE THINGS, BUT
IT WAS ALL RELATED
TO A SPACE ENVIRONMENT.
SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO
RESUSCITATE SOMEONE
ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION, HOW DO YOU CHANGE
HOW YOU GIVE THIS ASTRONAUT CPR
IN A MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT?
WE ALSO DID THINGS LIKE
WE LEARNED HOW TO SUTURE
AND WE LEARNED A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT WHAT WE WOULD DO
IN THE EVENT OF SOME SORT
OF MISHAP ON SPACE STATION
OR IN SOME SPACECRAFT AND HOW
THAT APPLIES DIRECTLY TO,
FOR EXAMPLE, HOW BLOOD FLOWS
IN MICROGRAVITY AS OPPOSED
TO HERE ON EARTH AND HOW
THAT AFFECTS WHAT YOU CAN DO
IN TERMS OF STITCHING OR
PROVIDING OTHER MEDICAL CARE.
WE ALSO DID DISASTER
SIMULATIONS.
SO THE DISASTER SIMULATION,
WE-- IT WAS-- BASICALLY
WE WERE SPLIT UP INTO
DIFFERENT TEAMS.
THERE WAS THE COMMUNICATIONS
TEAM, THERE WAS THE INJURED,
AND THERE WAS THE RESPONSE
TEAM AND I WAS PART
OF THE RESPONSE, WHICH MEANS
THAT I WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE
ADMINISTERING THE FIRST AID
TO THE INJURED TEAM.
SO I LEARNED HOW TO ADMINISTER
FIRST AID, AND ALSO
WE DID-- SO THE SITUATION WAS
THERE WAS TWO SPACECRAFT
COMING DOWN ON MARS,
ONE HAS AN ANOMALY AND
ONE LANDS FINE.
FIRST, WE-- FROM THE RESPONSE
TEAM, WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT
WHERE THESE ASTRONAUTS WERE.
WE HAD A COMMUNICATE--
SO THERE WAS A COMMUNICATIONS
TEAM, BUT THERE WAS A DELAY.
SO THIS SIMULATION LASTED
FOUR HOURS.
AND IN THIS FOUR HOURS
WE WOULD GET MESSAGES EVERY
40 MINUTES OR SO, SO WE'D SEND
SOMETHING, IT WOULD GO THERE,
ABOUT THE TIME DELAY
THAT WE SEE ON EARTH,
SO 20 THERE AND 20 BACK.
IT WAS ABOUT A 40 MINUTE
DELAY, SO OF COURSE
MANY PEOPLE CAN DIE
IN THAT SORT OF--
IN THAT TIME SCALE.
SO IT WAS LEARNING ABOUT
HOW TO DEVELOP TEAMS THAT CAN
OPERATE MORE AUTONOMOUSLY
WITHOUT THE NEED OF MISSION
CONTROL, ESPECIALLY FOR
DISASTER TYPE SIMULATIONS.
SO ANOTHER THING THAT WE DID
AS A PART OF THE HUMAN
PERFORMANCE TEAM WAS
WE VISITED THE NATIONAL
MARITIME COLLEGE OF IRELAND.
AND SO, THIS WAS A--
PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
MEMORABLE THINGS THAT I DID
AS A PART OF THE SPACE
STUDIES PROGRAM.
AND BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT IT
AT ALL, I'D LIKE TO SHOW YOU
THIS BRIEF VIDEO ON
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID
AT THE MARITIME COLLEGE.
>> THERE WAS ONE MAN
TO GO GET A CAMERA.
DID HE GO GET THE CAMERA?
>> I HAVE GOTTEN THE CAMERA.
>> ALL RIGHT.
[ MUSIC ]
>> SMILE, MIKE.
>> [ INDISTINCT ].
>> ROGER, CAN YOU RECONFIRM
THAT THE AREA BELOW US
IS CLEAR?
THAT IT'S SAFE TO LAUNCH
AND THAT WE HAVE PERMISSION
TO LAUNCH?
>> CLEAR.
[ INDISTINCT ].
>> ROGER, LAUNCHING IN FIVE,
FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE,
LAUNCH.
[ MUSIC ]
>> SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
WE DID AT THE NATIONAL
MARITIME COLLEGE WAS
CRISIS LEADERSHIP TRAINING.
SO THERE WAS THE INTRODUCTORY
THING THAT YOU SAW, WHERE
WE GOT INTO THIS LIFEBOAT
AND WENT INTO THE OCEAN,
AND THAT WAS REALLY JUST--
THAT WAS-- THERE WASN'T
A WHOLE LOT OF APPLICATION
TO SPACE THERE.
THAT ISN'T EXACTLY
HOW WE WOULD DO IT FROM--
IN A SPACE ENVIRONMENT, RIGHT.
BUT, THESE NEXT TWO
SIMULATIONS WERE TO HELP US
APPRECIATE WHAT HAPPENS
WITHIN OUR BODY UNDER
HIGH STRESS ENVIRONMENTS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
WE DID WAS WE JUMPED INTO
THE WATER, SO THIS WATER IS
ROUGHLY 60 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
WE JUMPED FROM A PLATFORM.
SO THIS IS THE INTERMEDIATE
PLATFORM, BUT EVENTUALLY
WE MADE IT UP TO THE ONE
THAT'S OUT OF THE PICTURE,
WHICH IS ABOUT 25 FEET TALL.
AND THEN, WE WERE TAUGHT
HOW TO SWIM IN A COLD WATER
SITUATION.
SO, YOU CAN DEVELOP
HYPOTHERMIA VERY QUICKLY
AND SO WE WERE TAUGHT FIRST
HOW TO SWIM IN THIS ENVIRONMENT
AND THEN WE DID THINGS LIKE
THE OBSTACLE COURSE.
BUT THE REAL TAKEAWAY HERE
WASN'T SURVIVAL SWIMMING
TRAINING, RIGHT?
IT WAS APPRECIATING
WHAT YOUR BODY GOES THROUGH
IN A VERY HIGH STRESS
ENVIRONMENT.
SO I JUMPED OFF OF THIS
PLATFORM AND INTO THE WATER,
AND I'M NO LONGER THINKING
ABOUT THE OBJECTIVES THAT
MY TEAM HAS TO FINISH.
I'M THINKING ABOUT
MY NEXT BREATH.
BECAUSE IT'S AMAZING
HOW MUCH YOU FEEL LIKE
YOU CAN'T BREATHE WHEN
YOU JUMP INTO WATER THAT COLD.
AND SO, THEY TAUGHT US
TO STEP THROUGH THE PROCESS,
DO THINGS IN SMALL CHUNKS,
AS OPPOSED TO THINKING ABOUT
EVERYTHING AT ONCE, WHICH
I GUESS WE COULD APPLY
TO LIFE AS WELL.
SO FIRST, IT WAS CATCH
MY BREATH, AND THEN ROLL OVER
ONTO MY BACK, CROSS MY LEGS
TO KEEP MY-- TO KEEP
MY ARTERIES THAT RUN THROUGH
MY LEGS WARM, AND SO THAT
THE COLD WATER DOESN'T TOUCH IT.
AND SO, THIS IS ALL HAPPENING
WHILE THERE'S WIND,
AND WAVES, AND RAIN, AND
IT WAS JUST-- IT WAS
AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUT YOURSELF
INTO THE POSITION
OF SOMEONE IN CRISIS AND
WHAT THEY EXPERIENCE,
WHAT THEY MENTALLY EXPERIENCE
AS A RESULT OF THAT.
SO ANOTHER THING THAT WE DID
WAS THE-- WAS THE FLOOD ROOM.
SO IN THE FLOOD ROOM--
KEEP IN MIND, IT WAS ROUGHLY
50 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT
OUTSIDE THAT DAY, AND
WE GOT INTO WATER THAT WAS
60 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
SO WE GET INTO THIS FLOOD
ROOM, YOU SEE US GOING DOWN
THE LADDER, AND WE'RE--
WE HAVE SOME BOOTS ON
SO OUR FEET AREN'T AS COLD
RIGHT AWAY.
AND THEY DROP DOWN A BAG
THAT HAS SOME STUFF IN IT
AND THEY SAID, "WELL,
"WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT IS
"THERE'S GOING TO BE WATER
"COMING AT YOU FROM ALL--
"FROM ALL ANGLES.
"IT'S GOING TO BE COMING FROM
"ABOVE, FROM BELOW, FROM
"THE SIDES, AND YOU GUYS
"HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PLUG
"THE HOLES."
SO IN THIS SIMULATION,
IT WAS REALLY MORE ABOUT
LETTING THE NATURAL LEADERS
LEAD, BECAUSE NONE OF THIS
IS TALKED ABOUT BEFOREHAND.
YOU'RE ALL JUST KIND OF
GETTING TO THE WATER AND
THEN THE NEXT THINGS HAPPEN.
SO IT'S ALL ABOUT LETTING
THE NATURAL LEADERS LEAD,
AND IT'S OKAY TO BE A FOLLOWER,
TOO, RIGHT, BECAUSE
THE FOLLOWERS ARE THE ONES
THAT GET THE WORK DONE.
IF EVERYBODY'S TRYING
TO LEAD NOBODY CAN
GET THE WORK DONE.
SO THE FOLLOWER IS
JUST AS IMPORTANT, IF NOT
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE GUY
TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO.
SO THE NATURAL LEADERS
BECAME THE LEADERS,
AND ULTIMATELY WE GOT
OUT OF THE WATER WHEN IT WAS
ROUGHLY CHEST HIGH.
A REALLY COOL EXPERIENCE,
BUT WE CAN RELATE THIS
TO SPACEFLIGHT BECAUSE
AS ENGINEERS, AS SCIENTISTS,
AS ANYBODY RELATED WITH
THE SPACE AGENCY, IF WE'RE
DEVELOPING PROCEDURES,
SAY FOR SOME ANOMALY
ON THE SPACE STATION
FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE A BETTER
UNDERSTANDING NOW OF WHAT
OUR COGNITIVE ABILITIES ARE
UNDER THESE HIGH STRESS
ENVIRONMENTS AND MAYBE
WE STEP THROUGH SLOWER
THESE PROCESSES.
MAYBE INSTEAD OF GIVING
AN ASTRONAUT A CARD THAT
HAS 100 STEPS ON IT, MAYBE
THERE'S JUST A FEW WORDS
ON A SINGLE CARD-- DO THIS.
NOW DO THIS.
AND THAT SORT OF DIRECTION
REALLY HELPS AND THAT WAS
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
WE LEARNED THROUGH
OUR CRISIS LEADERSHIP AND
THIS DIVERSE ACTIVITY.
SO AT THE SAME TIME THAT
WE'RE DOING DEPARTMENTS,
WE'RE ALSO DOING WORKSHOPS,
AND NOW WE'RE DOING
THREE THINGS AT THE SAME TIME.
WE'RE DOING CORE LECTURES,
WE'RE DOING OUR DEPARTMENT
ACTIVITIES, AND WE'RE ALSO
DOING WORKSHOPS.
SO IN OUR WORKSHOPS WE DID
SORT OF CREATIVE THINGS,
NOT REALLY THAT ENGINEERING
BASED, BUT WE WERE JUST
SORT OF GIVEN SOME MATERIALS
AND SAID, "HEY, LET'S--
"YOU HAVE TO DROP THIS OFF
"THE TOP OF THE ARCHITECTURE
"FACTORY AND IT HAS TO
"SURVIVE," AND THERE'S
EGGS INSIDE.
SO WE'VE SEEN THESE TYPES
OF THINGS BEFORE, BUT
IT'S REALLY JUST MORE
OF GETTING PEOPLE USED TO
WORKING IN TEAMS
AND THAT SORT OF THING.
WE ALSO IN OUR FIRST
WEEKEND-- SO THIS IS WHEN
I REALLY LEARNED WHAT SSP WAS
ABOUT, BECAUSE I WAS COMING UP
ON THE WEEKEND AND I SAID,
"OH, OKAY, WE'RE GOING
"TO HAVE A COUPLE DAYS
"TO CATCH UP," BUT NO.
THE FIRST WEEKEND WE WORKED
ALL WEEKEND.
AND THEN THE SECOND WEEKEND,
AND THE THIRD WEEKEND
AS WELL.
SO IN THE-- SO IN OUR FIRST
WEEKEND, WE BUILT
A RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE.
THIS MACHINE SPANNED ABOUT
200 FEET, ABOUT THE LENGTH
OF THE ARCHITECTURE FACTORY.
AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT A RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE IS,
IT'S JUST A REALLY
COMPLICATED MACHINE TO DO
SOMETHING REALLY SIMPLE.
AND WE WERE BROKEN UP INTO
ABOUT 15 TEAMS AND WE WERE
TOLD THE-- BASICALLY,
THE END GOAL IS TO GET
THIS BALLOON THAT HELD UP
A SIGN THAT SAID
"SSP '17" ON IT.
SO THAT'S ALL-- THAT'S ALL
THE OBJECTIVE WAS, BUT
YOU HAD TO WORK WITHIN
YOUR SMALL TEAM AND ALSO
COMMUNICATE WITH
THESE OTHER TEAMS.
SO THE IDEA WAS PASSING
A BALL FROM ONE END
TO THE OTHER AND IT DIDN'T
HAVE TO BE THE SAME BALL,
BUT THE IDEA WAS THAT THE BALL
WOULD-- MARBLE WOULD START
THE PROCESS AND WOULD ALSO
END THE PROCESS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF-- JUST
TO GIVE YOU LIKE A PRACTICAL
EXAMPLE OF WHY THIS MIGHT BE
DIFFICULT, SO YOU'RE WORKING
IN YOUR LITTLE TEAM,
FIGURING OUT WHAT YOU WANT
TO DO THAT'S KIND OF FUN
AND CREATIVE, BUT NOW
THE TEAM NEXT TO YOU NEEDS
THE BALL FOR THEIR SYSTEM
TO BE GIVEN TO THEM UP HIGH,
AS OPPOSED TO DOWN LOW.
MAYBE THE LAST PART
OF YOUR THING IS GOING
DOWN A RAMP.
SO IT'S ALL ABOUT LEARNING
TO COMMUNICATE AND WORK
TOGETHER, AND SO THIS WAS
WHY IT WAS ONE OF
THE FIRST ACTIVITIES.
IT GAVE US THE ABILITY
TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE
ABOUT EACH OTHER, AND ALSO
LEARN TO WORK IN SMALL TEAMS,
BUT ALSO A LARGE TEAM.
SO IT WAS A LARGE TEAM,
112 PARTICIPANTS ALL AT ONCE,
BUT ALSO SMALLER GROUPS
OF 7 OR 8 PEOPLE.
THEN, WE ALSO DID THINGS
LIKE ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS.
THESE WERE OTHER SMALL THINGS
THAT WE DID USING LEGO
MINDSTORM ROBOTICS.
AT THE SAME TIME,
IN THE EVENING, WE WERE
DOING PANELS AND
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES.
SO WE GET DONE-- SO OUR CORE
LECTURES WOULD USUALLY
GO 8:00 TO NOON, WE'D HAVE
AN HOUR FOR LUNCH, AND THEN
GO 1:00 TO 5:00, WE'D BREAK
FOR DINNER, AND THEN
WE'D HAVE CORE LECTURES
USUALLY THREE OR FOUR NIGHTS
A WEEK-- OR I'M SORRY,
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
AND PANELS THREE OR FOUR
NIGHTS A WEEK.
SO THIS IS
THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE PANEL.
THE SUBTITLE IS "WHERE SPACE
"MEETS POPULAR CULTURE."
SO THIS IS NOT
YOUR TYPICAL PANEL.
THIS IS ALL A GROUP
OF FASHION DESIGNERS AND
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE,
MORE ARTISTIC PEOPLE, AND
HOW THEY RELATE THEIR WORK
TO SPACE.
SO THIS IS THE EDUCATION PANEL,
AND IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR,
THAT IS DR. DAVA NEWMAN.
SHE WAS ON THE EDUCATION PANEL.
WE HAD THE ASTRONAUT PANEL,
SO THIS IS AN ANNUAL THING
THAT IS HOSTED.
THAT'S DAN TANI,
NICOLE STOTT, BOB THIRSK,
AND SO-YEON YI.
NOW, SO-YEON YI IS
AN INTERESTING PERSON.
SHE WAS THE-- AND ONLY--
SHE WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY
SOUTH KOREAN ASTRONAUT.
AND SHE SPENT ABOUT
THE FIRST MONTH WITH US.
SHE WAS A REALLY FUN,
INTERESTING PERSON.
WE REALLY GOT TO KNOW HER
PRETTY WELL.
SHE PLAYED MUSIC WITH US
IN THE EVENINGS AND REALLY
A GOOD PERSON.
ONE OF THE INTERESTING
THINGS ABOUT SO-YEON
IS THAT SHE COMPLETED--
SHE COMPLETED HER ASTRONAUT
TRAINING AND WENT THROUGH
HER FLIGHT, AND THEN
AFTERWARDS, SHE JOINED
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM.
SO SHE WAS A PART OF THE SPACE
STUDIES PROGRAM AFTER SHE WAS
AN ASTRONAUT, SO I IMAGINE
BEING PART OF THAT CLASS
MUST'VE BEEN PRETTY COOL, HUH?
WE ALSO HAD LECTURES
BY OTHER-- SO INDIVIDUAL
ASTRONAUTS, NOT JUST
THE PANEL.
AND THIS WAS PROBABLY
MY FAVORITE LECTURE.
THIS WAS-- IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHO THIS IS, THIS IS
A FAMOUS CANADIAN ASTRONOMER
WHO'S DISCOVERED SEVERAL
NEW NEAR EARTH OBJECTS.
BUT THE REASON WHY HE WAS
MY FAVORITE WAS BECAUSE
HE'S REALLY MASTERED THE ART
OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND
HE HAD A GOOD STORY TO TELL.
SO AT THE SAME TIME
ALL OF THAT IS HAPPENING,
YOU'RE ALSO DOING TEAM PROJECTS.
SO WEEK 2 WE STARTED
TEAM PROJECTS.
THIS YEAR, THERE WERE
FOUR TEAM PROJECTS.
THEY WERE THE ASTROPRENEURS,
THE GALACTIC GUIDE TO SPACE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SO THIS WAS
A GROUP OF ROUGHLY 28 PEOPLE
THAT DEVELOPED A GUIDE FOR
HOW TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR
IN SPACE-- OR FOR SPACE,
I SHOULD SAY.
THE MIDDLE ONE IS DEVELOPING
A ROADMAP FOR EMERGING SPACE
NATIONS, SO MAYBE NOT--
THIS ISN'T AS RELEVANT
TO NASA FOLKS OR ESA,
OR THOSE TYPES.
BUT COUNTRIES LIKE YOU SAW,
MAYBE OMAN, MAYBE SWEDEN,
MAYBE HUNGARY-- IRELAND
WOULD BE ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE.
SO EVERY YEAR THE HOST SITE
GETS TO PICK A TEAM PROJECT
AND THIS WAS THE TEAM PROJECT
PICKED BY IRELAND THIS YEAR.
NETSPACE, WHICH IS
THE INTERNET OF THINGS IN SPACE.
SO HOW CAN WE USE IoT
IN SPACE?
AND THEN, WE HAVE THE FOURTH
TEAM PROJECT, BUT I'LL LET
THIS VIDEO TO INTRODUCE IT
TO YOU FIRST.
[ MUSIC ]
>> IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY,
THERE'S A GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL
BIRD CALLED THE PHOENIX.
IT HAS BROAD WINGS AND SOARS
GRACEFULLY ABOVE THE EARTH.
WHEN ITS LIFE COMES
TO AN END, THE PHOENIX
SACRIFICES ITSELF AND IS
REBORN FROM ITS OWN ASHES.
THE CHINESE BUDDHISTS
HAVE A SIMILAR BIRD
IN THEIR LEGENDS.
THEIR PHOENIX USES FIRE
TO CLEANSE THE HATRED AND
UNHAPPINESS FROM THE MORTAL
WORLD, EXCHANGING ITS LIFE
FOR THE PEACE OF ALL.
IN THE MYTH, IT IS REBORN
FROM THE FIRE WITH A CLEAR
VOICE AND A PURE SOUL.
THIS PROCESS OF PURGING
THE WORLD AND BEING REBORN
IMPROVED IS CALLED
THE NIRVANA OF PHOENIX.
TODAY, IN REALITY,
THERE'S A GREAT PHOENIX CALLED
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION, ORBITING THE EARTH
IN THE VAST EXPANSE OF SPACE,
WAITING TO BE REBORN IN 2024.
WE TOOK ON THE MISSION
OF BRINGING OUR THOUGHTS
AND IDEAS TO HELP UNCOVER
THE FUTURE OF THE ISS.
THE ISS IS CURRENTLY THE ONLY
LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE
IN EARTH ORBIT AND EVEN THOUGH
IT IS AGING IT IS STILL
PERFORMING VERY WELL.
IT IS SCHEDULED TO BE
DEORBITED IN 2024,
BUT OUR TEAM CHOOSES
TO REPURPOSE IT INSTEAD.
REPURPOSING THE ISS WILL
OPEN UP POSSIBILITIES FOR
THE FUTURE OF HUMAN EXPLORATION.
COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
MAINTAINING SUCH A STATION
IN ORBIT REQUIRE NEW
POLITICAL COLLABORATIONS
AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK.
SPINOFFS FROM THE CREATION
OF THE ISS ARE CONTRIBUTING
TO VARIOUS FIELDS
DOWN ON EARTH AND WILL CONTINUE
TO DO SO IN THE FUTURE.
IT IS NOT ONLY A SPACE
ENGINEERING MARVEL, BUT ALSO
AN OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT
ON HOW TO DEVELOP HUMAN
INTERACTIONS IN SOCIETY,
HOW TO CONTINUE OR EVEN EXPAND
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION,
AND HOW TO MAKE PROGRESS
TOGETHER IN A HOSTILE
AND COMPETITIVE WORLD.
THE ISS IS A PLATFORM THAT
HELPS US BROADEN OUR VISION
OF THE COSMOS AND EXPAND
THE DEFINITION OF OURSELVES.
IT BECOMES A PART
OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN SPECIES
RATHER THAN JUST
ONE OF MANY COUNTRIES.
OUR PROJECT IS ALIGNED WITH
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
UNIVERSITY'S PHILOSOPHY:
IT IS INTERDISCIPLINARY,
INTERCULTURAL, AND
INTERNATIONAL.
THERE ARE 28 PARTICIPANTS
FROM 15 COUNTRIES, DIFFERENT
CULTURES, AND DIFFERENT
BACKGROUNDS.
THE TECHNICAL ASPECT IS
CONSIDERED TOGETHER WITH
LEGAL, ECONOMIC, AS WELL AS
THE HUMAN ELEMENTS
OF SUCH A PROJECT.
AS IN THE MYTH,
THIS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
WILL NOT JUST BE A MODIFICATION
OF THE ISS, IT WILL BE
A RENEWAL.
WE HOPE THE FUTURE OF
THE ISS WILL BE A LIGHTHOUSE
FOR HUMAN ADVANCEMENT,
PROSPERITY, AND COOPERATION.
WE HOPE IT WILL BE
THE NIRVANA OF ISS.
>> SO THE FOURTH TEAM
PROJECT WAS A TEAM PROJECT
THAT I LEAD.
A GROUP OF 28 PARTICIPANTS,
16 COUNTRIES, TO DEVELOP
AN ALTERNATE FUTURE FOR
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
BESIDES DEORBITING IT
INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
IN JUST A FEW YEARS FROM NOW.
AND WHILE I DON'T WANT
TO GET INTO THE DETAILS
OF WHAT OUR FINDINGS ARE,
IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST
I CAN FORWARD YOU OUR EXECUTIVE
SUMMARIES OR OUR FINAL
REPORT SO YOU CAN WATCH
OUR PRESENTATION ONLINE.
I DO WANT TO TALK A BIT
ABOUT THE PROCESS.
OKAY.
I REALLY LIKE THIS PICTURE
BECAUSE IT SHOWS
THE DIVERSITY IN OUR GROUP.
IN THIS GROUP, WE HAVE
STUDENTS, MEDICAL DOCTORS,
NUTRITIONISTS, ENGINEERS,
POLICY MAKERS.
WE ALSO HAVE MANY DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
IN THIS PICTURE.
THERE'S GERMANY, FRANCE,
ITALY, THE UNITED STATES,
IRELAND, ISRAEL, ENGLAND,
AND CANADA.
SO, WE SPENT A LOT OF OUR TIME
IN THESE SMALLER WORKING GROUPS,
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WHAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO
WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
SO HERE'S A FEW MORE
REPRESENTATIVES FROM
OUR GROUP.
THIS IS CAESAR FROM MEXICO,
AND ALSO TWO REPRESENTATIVES
FROM INDIA, LIAM, AND THEN
MYSELF IN THE PICTURE AS WELL.
WE SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS
DOING RESEARCH-- ENGINEERING,
POLICY, MANAGEMENT
AND BUSINESS, ALL THESE--
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT
ALL THESE SEVEN DISCIPLINES
TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS
A POTENTIAL ALTERNATE FUTURE
FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME DOING
THIS KIND OF THING, LIKE
MAKING SKETCHES, AND DRAWING
ON THE BOARD, AND WORKING
IN SMALL GROUPS BEFORE
WE EXPANDED OUT INTO-- COMING
BACK TOGETHER TO THE LARGER
GROUP TO DISCUSS OUR FINDINGS.
MY ROLE AS THE TEAM LEAD
WAS TO FACILITATE THE WORK.
SO YOU HAVE ALL THESE PEOPLE
FROM ALL THESE DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES, YOU HAVE COUNTRIES
THAT ARE REPRESENTED
THAT AREN'T A PART
OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION COMMUNITY.
YOU HAVE CHINA, AND INDIA,
AND ALL THESE OTHER COUNTRIES
THAT DON'T REALLY
HAVE A STAKE IN THE ISS.
SO MY JOB IS TO MOTIVATE,
MY JOB IS TO FACILITATE
THE WORK AND MAKE
THIS WORK HAPPEN.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, THIS IS
LISA AND [ INDISTINCT ].
SO LISA'S FROM CANADA,
[ INDISTINCT ] IS FROM INDIA
AND YOU SAW THEM PREVIOUSLY
IN THE VIDEO.
TOWARDS THE END OF OUR TP,
WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF TIME
WORKING ON TP-- 15, 18 HOURS
A DAY IN THE SAME ROOM,
WORKING ON OUR TEAM PROJECTS.
AND SO, LISA COMES TO ME
ONE DAY AND SHE SAID,
"MICHAEL, I'M, TIRED.
"I'M JUST GOING TO GO HOME.
"I JUST NEED TO REST.
"I HAVEN'T--" THIS WAS ALSO
THE PERSON THAT SAID,
"I HAVEN'T SLEPT
"IN A COUPLE DAYS."
SO INSTEAD, I ASKED THAT
THEY-- THAT THE STAFF
BRING IN BEAN BAGS.
AND SO, TO KEEP THE PEOPLE
THERE WE BROUGHT IN BEAN BAGS
AND JUST LET PEOPLE
SLEEP ON THE FLOOR
FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
SO THIS PICTURE WAS PROBABLY
TAKEN AT 9:00 OR 10:00
AT NIGHT.
THEY PROBABLY SLEPT FOR
AN HOUR OR TWO, AND THEN
WE WORKED AGAIN UNTIL 2:00 OR--
1:00, 2:00 IN THE MORNING.
AND THIS WAS A COMMON THING
IN THE LAST THREE WEEKS
WHERE THE TEAM PROJECTS
REALLY PICK UP.
OUTSIDE OF OUR TP ROOM,
THERE WAS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
AND THINGS THAT ALLOWED PEOPLE
TO KIND OF LET LOOSE
A LITTLE BIT, AND GET
CREATIVE, AND THINK WITH
A DIFFERENT PART
OF THEIR BRAIN THAN WHAT
THEY'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT.
THIS WAS A SUGGESTION FROM
ONE OF MY FELLOW PARTICIPANTS
TO BRING IN BUBBLES.
SO WE WENT AND GOT BUBBLES
AND IT JUST BROUGHT OUT LIKE
A MORE CREATIVE, CHILDISH,
PLAYFUL SIDE TO SOMEBODY,
AS OPPOSED TO JUST SITTING
THERE WRITING THIS REPORT
THAT ENDS UP BEING ROUGHLY
100 PAGES THAT YOU DEVELOP
IN THREE WEEKS WITH
28 DIFFERENT PEOPLE,
AND IT'S A REAL CHALLENGE.
BUT, THESE SORT OF THINGS
CAN-- BROUGHT THE GROUP
BACK TOGETHER.
IT WAS AMAZING WHAT I COULD
ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DO
FOR LIKE SOME ICE CREAM
OR CHOCOLATE OR SOMETHING
JUST TO LIKE KIND OF
GET THEIR MIND IN
A DIFFERENT SPACE.
OUR FINAL PRESENTATIONS ARE
NOT SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR TYPICAL
NASA PRESENTATION, RIGHT?
IT'S NOT JUST ALL POWERPOINTS,
SLIDES, BULLET POINTS.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO TAKE INTO
ACCOUNT THE HUMANITIES
ASPECT OF THINGS.
SO IT'S MORE OF LIKE A PLAY
THAN A REAL PRESENTATION.
SO SOME PEOPLE DO A TALK SHOW.
PART OF OUR PROJECT
INCLUDE-- FINAL PRESENTATION
INCLUDED MORE OF LIKE
A TED TALK INTERACTION.
THERE'S OWEN, MEMBER
OF THE IRISH MILITARY, PLAYING
HIS ROLE, GIVING ORDERS.
AND HERE'S SOME MORE PEOPLE
FROM OUR TEAM PROJECT.
THIS IS THE PLAY ASPECT
OF OUR FINAL REPORT.
AND THEN, WE HAVE
OUR CRUISE SHIP SINGER.
SO SHE'S USED TO WEARING
CRAZY OUTFITS AND SINGING
IN FRONT OF PEOPLE.
SO I ASKED-- WHEN WE WERE
DEVELOPING OUR FINAL
PRESENTATION, I SAID,
"THE AUDIENCE IS OUR PEERS
"OR OUR FELLOW PARTICIPANTS.
"WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS
"INCLUDE AS MANY THINGS FROM
"OUR SESSION OF SSP INTO
"OUR FINAL PRESENTATION."
SO YOU'LL SEE STEPHANIE
IN A FEW MORE SLIDES HERE
AS I TELL YOU MORE ABOUT
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM
AND THINGS THAT HAPPEN
OUTSIDE OF EVERYTHING
YOU'VE SEEN SO FAR.
BUT KEEP THIS OUTFIT IN MIND.
SO AT THE END OF OUR FINAL
PRESENTATION, SORT OF LIKE
OUR FAREWELL THING WAS
SHE SANG "SPACE ODDITY."
CULTURE NIGHT-- SO WE ALL
GET IN A ROOM AND EACH COUNTRY
HAS A DIFFERENT PRESENTATION
THAT THEY GIVE, AND USUALLY
IT'S VERY LIGHTHEARTED,
IT'S VERY FUNNY.
THERE'S USUALLY DRINKING AND
FOOD INVOLVED AND THINGS.
SO HERE WE ARE, ALL WATCHING
PROBABLY THE FIRST WEEK
OF CULTURE NIGHT
BY [ INDISTINCT ].
THIS IS A REPRESENTATIVE
FROM CHINA, A VERY GOOD
PUBLIC SPEAKER, WHO--
THIS WAS PROBABLY
ONE OF THE BEST PRESENTATIONS.
AND THEN, THIS PICTURE'S
QUITE DARK, BUT SOMETIMES
PEOPLE WOULD DRESS UP
IN THEIR-- IN THEIR RESPECTIVE
NATIVE GARB.
SO THIS IS ISTVAN FROM HUNGARY.
WE ALSO DID THINGS LIKE
WE BROUGHT GIFTS ALONG
AND DID GIFTS FOR CULTURE
NIGHTS, SET UP TABLES.
WE HAD FUNNY COSTUMES AND
THINGS, AND HAD LOTS OF FOOD.
SO FOOD WAS A BIG PART
OF IT, TRYING FOOD FROM
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
SO THIS IS-- THIS IS
IRELAND, BECAUSE THAT'S
SHEPHERDS PIE THERE.
BUT, YEAH, WE ALL JUST
KIND OF TOOK TURNS HOSTING
EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD,
WELL SORT OF, EVERYONE
THAT WAS A PART OF SSP,
AND JUST TAUGHT THEM
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
OUR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES.
SO THERE'S-- OF COURSE,
WE ALL HAD OUR PLATES
AND HAD SOME FOOD.
HERE I AM LEARNING A LITTLE
BIT ABOUT NORWEGIAN FOOD
FROM-- I THINK THAT'S TOM.
ANOTHER PART OF CULTURE
NIGHT WAS THE BAND.
SO AFTER-- EVERY FRIDAY
NIGHT, WE'D GET TOGETHER
IN THIS ROOM, WE'D DO
THE PRESENTATIONS, AND THEN
THE BANDS WOULD PLAY.
AND IT STARTED OFF BEING
THE STAFF BAND, RIGHT?
THE STAFF BAND WOULD PLAY.
THEN, WE REALIZED THAT
THERE WAS ACTUALLY QUITE A FEW
MUSICALLY TALENTED PEOPLE
IN THE ROOM, AND SO HERE'S
THE STAFF ON THE LEFT HAND
SIDE, AND THEN WE HAVE, AGAIN,
OUR CRUISE SHIP SINGER
AND SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE
FORM-- THEY FORMED A BAND.
AND SO, THIS PERSON HERE
IS OUR DIRECTOR, OMAR.
HE'S FROM JOHNSON SPACE CENTER.
THE CHIEF INNOVATION
OFFICER, I THINK, AT JOHNSON
SPACE CENTER.
AND JOHN CONNOLLY FROM
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER.
YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
AND OMAR WAS ALL ABOUT
MAKING SURE PEOPLE HAD
A GOOD TIME.
ALL ABOUT MAKING SURE
THE OBJECTIVES GOT MET, BUT
ONE OF THOSE OBJECTIVES WAS
YOU HAD TO HAVE A GOOD TIME.
AND SO, HE PLAYED THE DRUMS
IN THE STAFF BAND.
AND I ASKED HIM ONE NIGHT--
SO THIS WENT ON FOR
A COUPLE WEEKS.
IT WAS KIND OF LIKE
BATTLE OF THE BANDS.
AND HE ASKED ME ONE NIGHT--
OR I ASKED HIM ONE NIGHT,
"ARE YOU PLANNING ON PLAYING
"AGAIN TONIGHT?"
HE SAID, "I DON'T KNOW,
"THE STAFF BAND'S--
"THE PARTICIPANT BAND IS
"TOO GOOD.
"I THINK WE'LL JUST
"LET THEM PLAY."
SO THEN IT JUST BECAME
THE PARTICIPANT BAND.
BUT IN THIS PICTURE, AGAIN,
WE SHOW THE DIVERSITY
OF THE GROUP.
THIS IS ELI FROM CANADA,
STEPHANIE FROM ENGLAND,
ISRAEL-- DANIEL FROM ISRAEL,
PABLO FROM PORTUGAL,
AND I'M NOT SURE WHO THAT IS
FROM CHINA.
BUT IT WAS ALL ABOUT JUST
HAVING A GOOD TIME, RIGHT?
WE SPENT SO MUCH TIME
TOGETHER DOING REALLY
STRUCTURED THINGS, BUT
THIS WAS OUR TIME TO--
THERE'S LOTS OF MUSIC, AND FOOD,
AND DRINKING, AND DANCING.
IT WAS JUST A CHANCE
TO KIND OF LET LOOSE
A LITTLE BIT.
IT WAS A CHANCE TO DO
SOME FUN THINGS.
BUT, WE ALSO DID
OTHER FUN THINGS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
WE DID WAS WE HAD THE--
I THINK THEY CALLED IT
THE SPACE BALL.
IT WAS SORT OF THE-- IT WAS
A FORMAL NIGHT WHERE
WE ALL DRESSED UP-- SO HERE ARE
SOME OF MY FRIENDS FROM
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM.
THIS IS AGAIN OMAR,
THE DIRECTOR, AND HE WANTED
TO DO A MEN IN BLACK PICTURE
WITH ME, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE
MY SHADES SO I COULDN'T,
BUT HE JUST DID IT ANYWAY.
HE WOULD-- THIS IS THE TYPE
OF PERSON HE WAS THOUGH.
LIKE, HE WAS VERY, VERY
SERIOUS, BUT LIKE ALWAYS
YOU HAD TO HAVE A GOOD TIME
AT THE SAME TIME.
REAL INTERESTING PERSONALITY.
ONE OF THE NIGHTS HE COMES
TO ME AND HE SAID, "MICHAEL,
"THIS CULTURE NIGHT NEEDS
"TO BE THE BEST CULTURE NIGHT
"THAT WE'VE HAD YET."
AND I SAID, "OKAY, WELL,
"WHY ARE YOU CONCERNED?
"WE'VE ALL HAD A GOOD TIME."
AND HE SAID, "WELL,
"IT'S THE ALUMNI WEEKEND."
SO EVERY YEAR THERE'S
AN ALUMNI WEEKEND WHERE ALUMNI
COME FROM AROUND THE WORLD
AND HAVE FUN WITH
THE CURRENT PARTICIPANTS.
HE SAID, "YEAH, WELL,
"IT'S ALUMNI WEEKEND SO I REALLY
"WANT TO LIKE SHOW THE ALUMNI
"A GOOD TIME.
"SO I ORDERED A SMOKE
"MACHINE, A LASER LIGHT SHOW,
"AND A COUPLE OF KEGS
"OF BEER, SO I THINK
"THAT'S GOING TO DO THE TRICK."
WE ALSO DID THINGS LIKE
THE SPACE MASQUERADE.
SO THIS WAS-- SOME ARE MORE
SPACE RELATED THAN OTHERS.
I'M NOT SURE THAT--
I GUESS MAYBE ALIENS,
I'M NOT REALLY SURE.
BUT THIS WAS JUST A NIGHT
WHERE AFTER EVERYTHING WAS
DONE WE JUST KIND OF
GOT TOGETHER AND PUT ON
FUNNY COSTUMES AND DID
SPACE RELATED--
SPACE RELATED COSTUMES.
IT WAS JUST A REALLY
GOOD TIME.
THERE'S THAT COSTUME THAT
I TOLD YOU TO KEEP IN MIND.
SO THIS IS BERNADETTE
AND HER HUSBAND, JOHN WALTER,
FROM GERMANY.
AND SO YEAH, I TALKED WITH
STEPHANIE AND I SAID,
"I THINK YOU SHOULD WEAR THAT
"FOR OUR FINAL PRESENTATION."
BECAUSE EVERYBODY REMEMBERED
IT, AND SO SHE DID.
SO HERE I AM
ON THE LAST NIGHT.
THIS IS OUR CLOSING CEREMONY
AND YOU CAN SEE I'VE GOT
A SMILE ON AND TIRED EYES.
SO ISU STANDS FOR
INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY,
BUT SOME PEOPLE SAY
IT ALSO STANDS FOR
INSUFFICIENT SLEEP UNIVERSITY,
BECAUSE ON AVERAGE
WE WOULD WORK 12 TO 15 HOUR
DAYS, 6 OR 7 DAYS A WEEK.
OVERALL, I WAS THERE FOR
67 DAYS AND SPENT MAYBE
4 DAYS NOT DOING STUFF
RELATED TO SSP.
SO 63 OF THE 67 DAYS
I SPENT RELATED-- DOING
SSP RELATED THINGS.
SO HERE I AM STANDING
NEXT TO OMAR AND THE PRESIDENT
OF ISU, WALTER PETERS,
AND HE'S AN INTERESTING GUY.
SO THERE'S THIS THING CALLED
THE SPACE MAFIA.
ONCE YOU GET PAST THE--
ONCE YOU GET PAST THIS COURSE
THERE'S A PINNING CEREMONY.
YOU BECOME PART OF THE SPACE
MAFIA, BUT WALTER PETERS
DOESN'T LIKE IT, SO HE SAYS
THAT WE SHOULD CALL IT
THE SPACE FAMILY INSTEAD.
SO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED
IN BECOMING PART OF THE SPACE
FAMILY, OR SPACE MAFIA,
THERE'S THE CALL NOW
THAT'S OUT IN ELDS.
YOU SHOULD ATTEND
INFORMATION SESSIONS.
SO THERE WAS AN INFORMATION
SESSION YESTERDAY.
THERE WILL ALSO BE
AN INFORMATION SESSION
NEXT WEEK, JANUARY 23rd,
AND I THINK IT'S BEING HELD
IN THIS BUILDING,
IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
IT'S IN THE DAILY NEWS,
SO CHECK OUT FOR THAT.
YOU SHOULD TALK WITH
PAST PARTICIPANTS.
SO I'M A PAST PARTICIPANT,
BUT THERE'S LOTS OF OTHER
PAST PARTICIPANTS.
OVERALL, OVER 30 YEARS,
WE'VE SENT 26 PARTICIPANTS
FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.
SO THERE ARE LOTS OF PEOPLE
HERE THAT HAVE BEEN
A PART OF THAT PROGRAM.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
RELATED TO HOW THE APPLICATION
WORKS OR THAT SORT OF THING,
YOU SHOULD TALK WITH
JOETTE FEENEY.
SHE'S THE PROJECT MANAGER--
OR PROGRAM MANAGER FOR IT
THIS YEAR.
SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE
AND I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE
ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE
AT THIS TIME.
BUT YEAH, IT WAS
AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE.
A ONCE IN A LIFETIME
EXPERIENCE.
IT WAS A-- I WILL NEVER BE
IN THE SAME ROOM WITH
SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE AGAIN
IN MY LIFE AND I KNOW THAT.
BUT ALSO, I LEARNED SO MUCH
PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY.
I DON'T KNOW THAT--
IT WOULD BE VERY HARD FOR ME
TO TRADE THIS OPPORTUNITY
FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
IT WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE
AND I HOPE THAT THERE ARE
SOME OF YOU IN THIS ROOM THAT
ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING.
THANK YOU.
[ APPLAUSE ]
SO DO YOU USUALLY--
GO AHEAD.
>> SO THE CALL GOES OUT
[ INDISTINCT ].
>> YEAH.
>> I'VE BEEN WITH NASA NOW
FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS
AND I DON'T HAVE MUCH
EXPERIENCE IN LEADERSHIP.
DOES THAT PUT YOU AT
A DISADVANTAGE, WOULD YOU SAY?
OR DOES THAT MATTER?
OR IS IT ALL JUST BASED ON
WHAT YOUR APPLICATION STATES?
>> I WISH I WOULD HAVE
BROUGHT THE APPLICATION
WITH ME.
IT'S THREE QUESTIONS.
>> I LOOKED AT THEM, BUT--
>> YEAH, OKAY.
SO IT'S NOT-- THEY'RE NOT
VERY COMPLICATED QUESTIONS,
BUT IN HOW YOU ANSWER THEM
CAN REALLY SET YOU APART
FROM THOSE THAT JUST ANSWER
THE QUESTIONS DIRECTLY.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, I WOULD SAY
ISU IS ALL ABOUT-- AND SSP,
IS ALL ABOUT THE THREE Is--
INTERNATIONAL,
INTERDISCIPLINARY, AND
INTERCULTURAL.
SO IN EACH ONE OF YOUR RESPONSES
YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE
YOU HIT THOSE THREE Is.
YOU SHOULD ALSO TALK ABOUT
THE SEVEN DISCIPLINES.
SO THERE ARE THE SEVEN
DISCIPLINES, WHICH YOU CAN
FIND ONLINE, BUT THOSE ARE
THE MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS,
THE POLICY, ECONOMICS AND LAW--
AND YOU SHOULDN'T JUST
DO THAT FOR THE APPLICATION,
BUT YOU SHOULD REALIZE THAT
THAT'S WHAT THIS PROGRAM
IS ALL ABOUT.
IN TERMS OF-- IN TERMS OF
LEADERSHIP, I'D BET THERE'S
SOMETHING YOU CAN PUT
ON YOUR RESUME--
ON YOUR APPLICATION--
>> [ INDISTINCT ].
>> WELL--
>> [ INDISTINCT ].
>> YEAH, YEAH.
ALSO, REALIZE THAT THERE ARE
PROBABLY FEWER PEOPLE THAN
YOU THINK THAT ARE WILLING
TO DROP EVERYTHING
AND GO SPEND THE SUMMER
IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY.
>> MY WIFE'S NOT GOING
TO BE HAPPY.
>> YEAH, SO THAT'S--
SO FAMILY THING IS
ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS
I ALWAYS ANSWER ABOUT THIS.
SO I HAVE A WIFE AND I HAVE
A TWO YEAR OLD SON AT HOME.
AND ULTIMATELY, WE DECIDED
THAT THIS OPPORTUNITY WAS
A CHANCE IN-- ONE CHANCE
IN A LIFETIME AND I HAD TO
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT,
AND SO WE DID.
AND YOU'LL HAVE TO MAKE
THAT SAME DECISION, TOO,
YOU AND YOUR WIFE,
AND IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN.
YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT
WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU.
AND IF IT'S NOT THIS YEAR,
THEN IT COULD BE
ANOTHER YEAR.
BUT NEXT YEAR, IT'S GOING
TO BE-- OR SORRY, YEAH,
NEXT YEAR, 2019, WILL BE
IN JINJIANG, CHINA.
AND THERE MAY BE SOME ISSUES
WITH US GOING TO CHINA.
IN 2016, WE WERE NOT ALLOWED
TO GO TO ISRAEL,
SO I'M THINKING THERE MAY BE
THAT SAME ISSUE
IN CHINA AS WELL.
SO ANYWAY, YEAH, I SAY
GIVE IT A SHOT.
>> OH, I INTEND TO.
[ INDISTINCT ].
>> SO I WOULD SAY USE
THE THREE Is, USE THE SEVEN
DEPARTMENTS, AND REALLY
THINK ABOUT YOUR RESPONSES.
THINK ABOUT-- YOU SHOULD
DO THIS WITH ANY APPLICATION
OR PROPOSAL OR ANYTHING.
IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT
WHAT YOU GAIN FROM IT, BUT
WHY IS NASA CHOOSING YOU OVER
SOMEBODY ELSE?
WHAT DOES NASA GAIN FROM YOU?
AND WE SHOULD DO THAT
IN ANY TYPE OF APPLICATION,
BUT ESPECIALLY WHEN
WE'RE SELECTING ONE PERSON.
SO THINK ABOUT IT FROM
THE REVIEWER'S PERSPECTIVE,
I THINK THAT'S
A GOOD STRATEGY.
THE THREE Is, THE SEVEN
DISCIPLINES, AND
THE REVIEWER'S PERCEPTION.
THAT'S WHAT I WOULD SAY.
MM-HMM.
YUP?
>> WHAT'S THE BIGGEST TANGIBLE
BENEFIT YOU'LL WALK AWAY--
THAT YOU HAVE NOW
THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE?
I MEAN, IN TERMS OF THE BIG
PICTURE OF LIFE, CAREER,
AND SO FORTH, OTHER THAN
HAVING A THING ON YOUR RESUME
AND THE EXPERIENCE INSIDE
YOUR SOUL, WHAT ELSE?
>> SO I KNEW I'D GET
THIS QUESTION AS WELL.
WHAT'S THE BIG TAKEAWAY?
OR WHY SHOULD I DO IT?
WHY?
FOR ONE, IN TERMS OF TANGIBLE
BENEFIT, SO TO ME TANGIBLE
MEANS LIKE THINGS THAT
I CAN HOLD OR THINGS THAT
I CAN USE.
DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP
SKILL, YOU ALSO HAVE
CONTACTS NOW-- I NOW HAVE
CONTACTS IN 26 COUNTRIES,
ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHERS
THAT WERE NOT REPRESENTED
IN THE PARTICIPANTS.
YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE--
SO FROM A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE,
YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE
OTHER CULTURES.
YOU LEARN TO MAYBE TAKE INTO
CONSIDERATION BEFORE
YOU SAY SOMETHING.
MAYBE YOU TAKE INTO
CONSIDERATION THAT PERSON'S
CULTURAL BACKGROUND.
THERE'S THE CULTURAL ELEMENT,
THERE'S THE LEADERSHIP
AND THE DEVELOPMENT ASPECTS,
AND YOU'RE ALSO LEARNING
ABOUT A LOT OF
DIFFERENT SUBJECTS.
SO FROM A TANGIBLE
PERSPECTIVE, WE DID
63 LECTURES IN FOUR WEEKS.
SO IF YOU WANT SOMETHING
TANGIBLE, I HAVE I GUESS
LECTURE NOTES ON
63 DIFFERENT TOPICS.
THAT'S SOMETHING TANGIBLE.
IF YOU CONSIDER MY KNOWLEDGE
TANGIBLE THEN I GAINED
A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE.
>> IN TERMS OF HOW--
WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
DIFFERENT POSITIONS
OR ADVANCEMENT WITHIN NASA--
>> SO THE SPACE STUDIES
PROGRAM HAS HAD ABOUT
4,000 PARTICIPANTS
OVER ITS 30 YEARS.
AND THE CONTACTS THAT
YOU GAIN FROM THAT IS PROBABLY
ONE OF THE BIGGEST--
THE BIGGEST THINGS.
I ACTUALLY WAS TALKING WITH
SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY
WHO WALKED INTO A JOB INTERVIEW
WEARING HER ISU LAPEL PIN
THAT SHE GOT AT THE PINNING
CEREMONY AT THE END.
AND SHE WALKED IN, AND
THOSE TWO PEOPLE WERE ALSO
ISU GRADUATES, AND ULTIMATELY
SHE GOT THE JOB.
SO DON'T UNDERESTIMATE
THE NETWORKING OF THE SPACE
STUDIES PROGRAM, OR ISU
IN GENERAL, WHETHER
IT'S THE MASTERS PROGRAM,
OR THE EXECUTIVE PROGRAM,
OR THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM.
MM-HMM?
>> [ INDISTINCT ]?
>> THE TUITION IS PAID
BY THE CENTER.
YOUR ORGANIZATION
WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH
THE TRAVEL FUNDS, WHICH IS
ESTIMATED TO BE $3,500.
THE TUITION IS ABOUT
$20,000 AND IS-- AND
YOUR ORGANIZATION DOES NOT
HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT.
THAT'S PAID FOR BY
CENTER FUNDS.
OKAY.
SO THAT INCLUDES FLIGHT
THERE, FLIGHT BACK, PROBABLY
TWO NIGHTS IN A HOTEL--
THE NIGHT BEFORE OPENING
CEREMONY AND THE NIGHT
AFTER-- AS WELL AS SOME FOOD
EXPENSES AND THINGS.
$3,500 IS THE ESTIMATE
TO TELL YOUR SUPERVISOR.
>> [ INDISTINCT ].
>> SO IT'S ALWAYS HOSTED
AT A UNIVERSITY
AND SO IT DEPENDS ON
WHAT KIND OF ACCOMMODATION
THE UNIVERSITY HAS.
IN THIS CASE, WE STAYED
IN SORT OF THE MORE
PROFESSIONAL STYLE DORMS.
WE ALL HAD OUR OWN BEDROOM
AND OWN BATHROOM IN A COMMON--
MORE OF LIKE AN APARTMENT
TYPE THING.
THERE WAS COMMON AREAS
AND THEN SEVERAL BEDROOMS.
AND THAT'S THE WAY
IT USUALLY GOES.
IT DEPENDS ON WHAT
ACCOMMODATION THE UNIVERSITY
HAD, BUT IT'S ALWAYS HOSTED
AT A UNIVERSITY TO EASE
THAT STRESS ON TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO DO
LECTURES EVERY DAY AND
HOW TO GET PEOPLE
ON AND OFF CAMPUS.
THE UNIVERSITIES ARE
PRETTY MUCH SET UP FOR
THAT KIND OF THING.
TONYA?
>> [ INDISTINCT ].
>> OH, OKAY.
YUP?
>> DO YOU HAVE TO PASS
A BASIC PHYSICAL FOR
ALL THESE PHYSICALLY
DEMANDING ACTIVITIES?
>> BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING
MORE THAN 60 DAYS,
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE
A HEALTH EVALUATION
BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
BUT THOSE PHYSICALLY DEMANDING
THINGS NOT EVERYBODY DID,
AND YOU DON'T NECESSARILY
HAVE TO DO THEM.
SO AS A PART OF HUMAN
PERFORMANCE WE DID
THESE TYPES OF THINGS.
THE POLICY, ECONOMICS AND LAW
FOLKS DID NOT, SO THOSE
PHYSICALLY DEMANDING THINGS
THAT YOU SAW WERE A PART
OF THE HUMAN PERFORMANCE.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY MEDICAL
ISSUES OR CONDITIONS THERE'S--
THEY'LL ACCOMMODATE YOU.
>> ARE THERE ACADEMIC
CRITERIA BEFORE APPLYING?
LIKE GRE TYPE STUFF?
>> NOPE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE
A BACHELORS DEGREE, THAT'S IT.
A BACHELORS DEGREE
FROM AN ACCREDITED UNIVERSITY
AND, YEAH.
I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S
ANYTHING ELSE BESIDES THAT.
BECAUSE IT'S NOT-- YOU GET
A CERTIFICATE BECAUSE
YOU DON'T GET A-- IT'S NOT
A DEGREE THAT YOU GET
OUT OF IT.
THINGS LIKE THE GRE AND THINGS
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PASS OR TAKE.
>> SORRY, WHERE AGAIN IS
THE SSP '18 BEING HELD?
>> IT'S IN DELFT
IN THE NETHERLANDS.
>> THE NETHERLANDS?
>> MM-HMM.
>> WHAT ARE THE DATES ON THOSE?
>> I'D HAVE TO LOOK, BUT
IT'S JUNE 25th THROUGH
AUGUST 25th, OR IT'S
RIGHT AROUND THOSE DATES.
>> HOW LONG IS IT?
>> NINE WEEKS.
JUNE TO AUGUST.
>> DO YOU HAVE ANY TIME
WITH YOUR FAMILY OR SPOUSES
TO FLY OUT AND VISIT YOU?
IT LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE
PRETTY MUCH BOOKED
THE WHOLE TIME, SO I DON'T
SEE HOW YOU COULD HAVE
FAMILY VISITATION TIME.
>> MOST PEOPLE DO NOT--
WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS
THE FAMILIES USUALLY COME OVER
BEFOREHAND OR THEY COME OVER
FOR THE CLOSING CEREMONY,
WHICH IS OPEN TO FAMILIES.
BUT, WITH THAT SAID, MY WIFE
AND MY TWO YEAR OLD SON
DID COME TO VISIT ME
PART WAY THROUGH.
AND I SPENT A COUPLE OF DAYS
WITH THEM, SO THEY WERE
THERE FOR TWO WEEKS.
I SPENT TWO FULL DAYS
WITH THEM OVER ONE WEEKEND.
BASICALLY, ORGANIZED IT WITH
MY TEAM PROJECT GROUP
AND WHATEVER-- EVERYONE WAS
VERY UNDERSTANDING.
"HEY, MY FAMILY'S HERE,
"SO I'M GOING TO TAKE OFF
"FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS OVER
"THE WEEKEND WHERE I'M NOT--"
THERE AREN'T REALLY
STRUCTURED THINGS OVER
THE WEEKEND, BUT YOU'RE ALWAYS
DOING SOMETHING, BASICALLY.
AND EVERYONE WAS
VERY ACCOMMODATING OF THAT.
ALSO, TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE
OF ACCOMMODATION,
UNFORTUNATELY DURING MY TIME
IN THE SPACE STUDIES
PROGRAM, I HAD A COUSIN
THAT PASSED AWAY.
AND SO, I FLEW FROM--
I LEFT ON A MONDAY MORNING
AND I WAS BACK ON WEDNESDAY
EVENING IN IRELAND.
SO I WAS GONE FOR BASICALLY
TUESDAY FOR THE FUNERAL
IN BROOKLYN, AND
WHAT A CULTURE SHOCK THAT WAS.
TO GO FROM ONE OF THE NICEST
PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE
SO NICE TO YOU, TO BROOKLYN,
NEW YORK.
AND IT WAS FUNNY, WHEN I WAS
THERE IT MADE ME REALIZE
LIKE HOW MUCH I REALLY
ASSOCIATED THAT-- MY SSP
FAMILY WITH BEING AT HOME,
AND HOW I JUST WANTED TO GET
BACK TO THAT VERY STRUCTURED
AND SAFE AND FRIENDLY
ENVIRONMENT, AND NOT BE
IN BROOKLYN ANYMORE.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY DO
BECOME PART OF YOUR LIFE.
THERE'S NOT A DAY THAT'S
PASSED THAT I HAVEN'T
TALKED TO SOMEBODY FROM
THE SPACE STUDIES PROGRAM
SINCE I LEFT IN AUGUST.
EVERY DAY WE TALK
TO EACH OTHER, AND SO, SURE,
YOU CAN'T TALK TO ALL 112
PARTICIPANTS EVERY DAY, BUT
THERE IS-- I DON'T BELIEVE
THERE'S A SINGLE DAY THAT'S
GONE BY THAT I HAVEN'T
TALKED TO SOMEBODY
FROM THERE.
AND THIS IS THE CONNECTION,
THE FAMILY ASPECT THAT
YOU GET FROM THIS PROGRAM,
THAT WOULD BE VERY HARD TO FIND
IN ANY OTHER TYPE OF PROGRAM,
UNLESS IT WAS AS RIGID,
AS STRUCTURED, AND AS IMMERSIVE
AS SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
OKAY, SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED
IN PARTICIPATING, I WOULD SAY
NEXT WEEK THERE IS
AN INFORMATION SESSION
IN THIS BUILDING WHERE
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT--
SO YOU'LL SEE AN ABBREVIATED
VERSION OF THIS TALK.
IT'LL BE ROUGHLY 15 MINUTES
OR SO, SO YOU'LL SEE
SOME OF THE SAME SLIDES.
BUT THEN, WE'LL TALK
A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT
THE LOGISTICS OF APPLYING,
THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD
INCLUDE IN YOUR APPLICATION.
SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED
YOU MAYBE WANT TO COME TO THAT.
I BELIEVE IT'S JANUARY 23rd,
BUT IT'S IN THE DAILY NEWS.
>> I THINK IT'S THE 22nd.
>> TWENTY-SECOND?
OKAY.
ALL RIGHT, SO EITHER WAY,
THERE'S-- IT'S NEXT WEEK
SOMETIME, SO IF YOU'RE
INTERESTED IN APPLYING
YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY COME
TO THAT SESSION.
ALSO, SEEK OUT
FELLOW PARTICIPANTS,
OR PAST PARTICIPANTS.
THERE'S LOTS OF US
HERE ON CENTER, SO JUST
COME TALK TO US.
AND IF YOU NEED A LIST
OF NAMES OR WHATEVER,
JUST COME TALK TO ME.
I'D BE HAPPY TO-- HAPPY
TO GIVE YOU A LIST OF NAMES.
ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.