1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,203 Good morning, welcome to NASA's the Pegasus. 2 00:00:03,203 --> 00:00:04,471 My name is Joseph Robinson 3 00:00:04,471 --> 00:00:06,172 I'm the Marine Operations Manager on board. 4 00:00:06,172 --> 00:00:08,441 It's my job to insure the barge ready to go at a moment's notice 5 00:00:08,441 --> 00:00:09,709 for NASA. 6 00:00:09,743 --> 00:00:12,879 The barge is 310 feet long, its got a 50 foot beam 7 00:00:12,879 --> 00:00:15,415 It's specifically built to ship core stage. 8 00:00:15,415 --> 00:00:18,651 We ship parts from here to Huntsville, Alabama 9 00:00:18,651 --> 00:00:21,621 Huntsville, Alabama all the way down to Kennedy Space Center. 10 00:00:21,621 --> 00:00:25,091 It's a unique platform and the crew is nothing but the best 11 00:00:25,825 --> 00:00:27,894 My name is Jeffery Whitehead and 12 00:00:27,894 --> 00:00:30,163 I'm the AB on the barge Pegasus. 13 00:00:30,163 --> 00:00:32,799 What I do on here is the same thing you would see a captain 14 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:35,502 do on any other marine vessel 15 00:00:35,502 --> 00:00:38,004 I manage the deck crew and I work as a team with the engineer 16 00:00:38,004 --> 00:00:40,440 on here to make sure the barge is ready to go and ready to ship 17 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,741 the rockets. 18 00:00:41,741 --> 00:00:44,711 Scott Ledet, marine engineer aboard the NASA barge Pegasus. 19 00:00:44,711 --> 00:00:48,214 When I came here to do this I take it a little more personal 20 00:00:48,214 --> 00:00:51,484 it's a wider scheme and less room for error than 21 00:00:51,484 --> 00:00:52,952 on another vessel. 22 00:00:52,952 --> 00:00:55,922 I mean you're working with a rocket that everybody has 23 00:00:55,922 --> 00:00:58,591 poured their heart and soul and took time away from their 24 00:00:58,591 --> 00:01:00,994 family to come out an work on it, you don't want 25 00:01:00,994 --> 00:01:01,895 anything to go wrong. 26 00:01:01,895 --> 00:01:04,864 Stennis to KSC is a pretty nice trip, we have a couple tugs 27 00:01:04,864 --> 00:01:07,534 that'll latch on to us over ther up at Stennis, we'll come out 28 00:01:07,534 --> 00:01:10,503 the locks and head South on the Pearl, we'll go out the 29 00:01:10,503 --> 00:01:13,473 little Rigolets bridge and come out the Mississippi Pass 30 00:01:13,473 --> 00:01:15,975 and we meet up with an sea- going tug out there, and he'll 31 00:01:15,975 --> 00:01:18,178 hook up to our bridle and he'll drag us all the down to the 32 00:01:18,178 --> 00:01:20,680 Florida Straight and take us out to the East coast of Florida 33 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,882 and back up, it's usually about a 6-day trip. 34 00:01:22,882 --> 00:01:25,852 And then we get up there and a couple tugs grab us and they 35 00:01:25,852 --> 00:01:27,220 bring us on in to KSC. 36 00:01:27,220 --> 00:01:30,190 We acutally monitor every aspect of the trip. The people at NASA 37 00:01:30,190 --> 00:01:32,859 will know the wave heights, they'll know the temperature 38 00:01:32,859 --> 00:01:35,562 outside. They'll keep up with the movement of the barge, 39 00:01:35,562 --> 00:01:37,931 how much of a list we had to the port or to the starboard or 40 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:39,332 from the bow to the stern. 41 00:01:39,332 --> 00:01:42,202 And all that is constantly being monitored and updated. 42 00:01:42,202 --> 00:01:45,171 Beautiful water, fun trip, we always have a good time 43 00:01:45,171 --> 00:01:48,141 good fellowship out there talkin guys. You really get to know 44 00:01:48,141 --> 00:01:50,310 each other when you're just sitt in the ocean like that for 45 00:01:50,310 --> 00:01:51,478 a few days 46 00:01:51,478 --> 00:01:53,746 When people come out here and they look at this barge, I mean, 47 00:01:53,746 --> 00:01:55,782 its a reflection of us and how well we work together and how 48 00:01:55,782 --> 00:01:56,649 hard we work.