Good morning, welcome to NASA's the Pegasus.
My name is Joseph Robinson
I'm the Marine Operations Manager on board.
It's my job to insure the barge ready to go at a moment's notice
for NASA.
The barge is 310 feet long, its got a 50 foot beam
It's specifically built to ship core stage.
We ship parts from here to Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville, Alabama all the way down to Kennedy Space Center.
It's a unique platform and the crew is nothing but the best
My name is Jeffery Whitehead and
I'm the AB on the barge Pegasus.
What I do on here is the same thing you would see a captain
do on any other marine vessel
I manage the deck crew and I work as a team with the engineer
on here to make sure the barge is ready to go and ready to ship
the rockets.
Scott Ledet, marine engineer aboard the NASA barge Pegasus.
When I came here to do this I take it a little more personal
it's a wider scheme and less room for error than
on another vessel.
I mean you're working with a rocket that everybody has
poured their heart and soul and took time away from their
family to come out an work on it, you don't want
anything to go wrong.
Stennis to KSC is a pretty nice trip, we have a couple tugs
that'll latch on to us over ther up at Stennis, we'll come out
the locks and head South on the Pearl, we'll go out the
little Rigolets bridge and come out the Mississippi Pass
and we meet up with an sea- going tug out there, and he'll
hook up to our bridle and he'll drag us all the down to the
Florida Straight and take us out to the East coast of Florida
and back up, it's usually about a 6-day trip.
And then we get up there and a couple tugs grab us and they
bring us on in to KSC.
We acutally monitor every aspect of the trip. The people at NASA
will know the wave heights, they'll know the temperature
outside. They'll keep up with the movement of the barge,
how much of a list we had to the port or to the starboard or
from the bow to the stern.
And all that is constantly being monitored and updated.
Beautiful water, fun trip, we always have a good time
good fellowship out there talkin guys. You really get to know
each other when you're just sitt in the ocean like that for
a few days
When people come out here and they look at this barge, I mean,
its a reflection of us and how well we work together and how
hard we work.