I'm starting to go there.
I'm the director of the Office
of Communications here at Marshall.
and the whole other way.
Fred.
The expedition 71
crew carried out
numerous scientific investigations
and technology demonstrations,
paving the way
for the forthcoming space
exploration endeavors.
Fostering innovations
that bring tangible benefits.
At first,
we appreciate you taking the time
out of your busy schedules
to be kind
and share your experiences with us today.
served as flight engineer aboard
for the.
Next,
we have tremendous
Roving applause
Pretty awesome thing about it. Right.
The first time is you gotta walk us.
Walk us? Yeah.
This is the last time I walk for
eight months.
I've never quite understood
how the class of turtles greet each other
every time,
but this is a back
greeting his fellow classmates
and I saw coming through the hatch
for the first time.
Big, spacious, magnificent station.
being part of a relay team,
we take the baton from you guys,
and start kind of
doing our part to help
see these investigations through.
And then the joy of being able
to work with you, talking to you,
knowing that there's layers and, backroom
You don't need a lot
of special equipment.
You just need to learn some things
and you can practice medicine.
Quite nice in the end.
Or, you know,
hopefully as little as possible
Science with Don.
So things didn't go well.
There was Alka Seltzer in a water bottle.
We were trying to demonstrate,
propellant transfer.
For us
it also meant a delivery of fresh food
and a few niceties.
One of the freezers that came up
destined to take down
samples actually was full of ice cream.
This is our Olympics.
Yeah.
Matt basically produced this thing
and put it together.
And, boy,
we had a lot of fun making this.
Everybody was a winner.
But.
undock after 235 days.
After.
The.
And so I built a really big drive.
I know you guys
get the work in the space industry,
but you go out of town
and folks don't know what we're doing.
And so I built a really big drive
to share
Definitely set the standard
for Top Gear at the space station.
Hopefully people will continue your
legacy up there.
I know you guys talk about,
having more crew on station
for a longer period of
time than anticipated, and
And,
you can check out here
to take on the astrophysics
space that I have,
you know, on a regular basis, as I,
In anticipation of that,
the gate at NASA.
It's called
we servers
and was trying to figure out
how great he would handle the load.
So yeah, he did
So, you know,
the thing that I did was
I just decided to make my career
exactly what I wanted to do.
I did
miss the opportunities,
but they were calculated risk.
She had water everywhere,
and it was turning the ice instantly.
So think about that.
How how is she
get as close and then she can see you.
We connected back to see And,
I'm so thankful for the opportunity,
because it was the first and only time
that we had to really soak it
in on a shuttle mission.
It's a pretty,
highly choreographed timeline,
and you don't have
a whole lot of opportunity
to get it out the window.
Which is that the.
Don't put it in, you know,
you're not doing this just by yourself.
Part of what you do is,
so dependent on teamwork and,
and also mentorship
and finding people that,
you look up to to ask questions, to
be your guide and questions of life.
Besides time up there,
down here,
the the voice of the science.
it's incredible.
It's been a lot, like,
a lot long time
to figure out how
to capture with the camera
what you're able see.
It's really hard. It's some of the most
cool moments.
Really, really dynamic.
We transition from
That's
kind of a question.
You know,
at the same.
Understanding
like running around.
For you.
Oh, really?
Man.
Oh, you don't have to.
The rest of the year.
At the PGA
tour.
Actually, 100