0 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,071 MY NAME IS TOM MARSHBURN, 1 00:00:01,071 --> 00:00:02,904 I'M THE PILOT OF NASA'S 2 00:00:02,904 --> 00:00:05,732 SPACEX CREW-3 MISSION TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 3 00:00:05,732 --> 00:00:07,731 I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHY SPACEFLIGHT 4 00:00:07,731 --> 00:00:08,947 GRABBED ME THE WAY IT DID, 5 00:00:08,947 --> 00:00:10,240 IT FOUND ME REALLY. 6 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,723 MORE THAN ME DECIDING TO BECOME 7 00:00:12,723 --> 00:00:13,949 FASCINATED WITH IT. 8 00:00:14,237 --> 00:00:16,583 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT LEAVING 9 00:00:16,583 --> 00:00:18,470 EVERYTHING WE KNOW BEHIND, 10 00:00:18,470 --> 00:00:20,633 EVERYTHING NOT JUST OUR FRIENDS OR FAMILY 11 00:00:20,633 --> 00:00:23,247 OR HOME BUT EVEN THE PLANET. 12 00:00:23,247 --> 00:00:25,797 GOING TO PLACES THAT WE KNEW ALMOST NOTHING 13 00:00:25,797 --> 00:00:27,760 ABOUT AT THE TIME I WAS READING ABOUT IT. 14 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,898 AND UNDERSTANDING HOW SOMEBODY COULD CHANGE, 15 00:00:31,898 --> 00:00:34,029 SO IT WAS ALMOST LIKE GOING UP INTO HEAVEN OR 16 00:00:34,029 --> 00:00:35,867 SOMETHING AND COMING BACK. 17 00:00:35,867 --> 00:00:38,160 THAT WAS JUST INFINITELY FASCINATING TO ME. 18 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,295 I HAVE THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. 19 00:00:42,295 --> 00:00:44,000 FIVE OF THEM HAD DECIDED TO BECOME 20 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,414 DOCTORS. SO THE ONE THING 21 00:00:45,414 --> 00:00:46,847 I KNEW I WAS NEVER GOING TO BE WAS A 22 00:00:46,847 --> 00:00:48,720 DOCTOR, BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO BE JUST LIKE THEM. 23 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:50,970 BUT WHILE I WAS IN GRADUATE SCHOOL 24 00:00:50,970 --> 00:00:52,784 IN THE ENGINEERING PHYSICS, 25 00:00:52,784 --> 00:00:54,876 I REALIZED THAT EVERYBODY WAS HANGING OUT WITH, 26 00:00:54,876 --> 00:00:56,624 EVERYBODY I ENJOYED BEING WITH WERE 27 00:00:56,624 --> 00:00:59,301 EITHER MEDICAL STUDENTS OR DOCTORS. 28 00:00:59,301 --> 00:01:01,127 MAYBE MEDICINE IS SOMETHING FOR ME, 29 00:01:01,127 --> 00:01:02,729 AND TURNED OUT I LOVED IT. 30 00:01:02,729 --> 00:01:04,107 GOT SO IMMERSED WITH IT THAT 31 00:01:04,107 --> 00:01:07,910 I ACTUALLY FORGOT ABOUT SPACE FOR A FEW YEARS. 32 00:01:07,910 --> 00:01:09,498 BEGAN TO PRACTICE AFTER THAT IN 33 00:01:09,498 --> 00:01:12,183 TOLEDO, OHIO WHERE THEY HAD A LIFE FLIGHT PROGRAM, 34 00:01:12,183 --> 00:01:13,796 AND THAT'S WHERE I DID MY RESIDENCY 35 00:01:13,796 --> 00:01:15,680 FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE I WANTED TO FLY. 36 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,000 AND SO I APPLIED FOR THE FIRST CLASS 37 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,419 OF WHAT WAS THEN THE SPACE MEDICINE 38 00:01:19,419 --> 00:01:23,340 FELLOWSHIP AND IN '93, I SHOWED UP AT NASA, 39 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:25,095 I WAS ALL STARRY-EYED, EXCITED, 40 00:01:25,095 --> 00:01:25,840 AND READY TO 41 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,111 START LEARNING ABOUT SPACE MEDICINE. 42 00:01:28,111 --> 00:01:29,926 I GOT TO KNOW THE PATIENTS. 43 00:01:29,926 --> 00:01:31,544 I GOT TO KNOW THE ASTRONAUTS AND THE 44 00:01:31,544 --> 00:01:33,211 PILOTS THAT I WOULD BE WORKING WITH LATER. 45 00:01:33,211 --> 00:01:35,000 AND THAT WAS ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF FUN. 46 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,497 ONE OF MY FIRST JOBS THEN AS A FLIGHT SURGEON 47 00:01:37,497 --> 00:01:38,761 WAS TO GET SHIPPED OUT TO RUSSIA 48 00:01:38,762 --> 00:01:42,791 TO SUPPORT THE PHASE ONE PROGRAM, WHICH IS WHEN WE TOOK NASA ASTRONAUTS, 49 00:01:42,791 --> 00:01:45,046 PUT THEM ON THE MIR SPACE STATION 50 00:01:45,046 --> 00:01:46,313 SO THAT WE COULD LEARN ABOUT 51 00:01:46,313 --> 00:01:48,000 LONG-DURATION SPACE FLIGHT BEFORE WE 52 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,023 STARTED SENDING ASTRONAUTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL 53 00:01:50,023 --> 00:01:50,828 SPACE STATION. 54 00:01:51,658 --> 00:01:52,660 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT WORKING AT 55 00:01:52,660 --> 00:01:55,178 JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, I THINK THAT IF ANYBODY 56 00:01:55,178 --> 00:01:57,006 HAD EVER CONSIDERED FLYING IN SPACE 57 00:01:57,006 --> 00:01:59,862 OR WANTING TO, WHEN YOU SHOW UP AND YOU SEE 58 00:01:59,862 --> 00:02:01,649 THE INCREDIBLE THINGS THAT EVERYBODY IS DOING, 59 00:02:01,649 --> 00:02:03,221 IT'S HARD NOT TO GET THE BUG 60 00:02:03,221 --> 00:02:05,440 TO WANT TO APPLY AND BECOME AN ASTRONAUT. 61 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,000 SO I DID THREE SPACEWALKS, AND SUPPORTED 62 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,845 A FOURTH AS THE INSIDE CREW MEMBER. 63 00:02:12,845 --> 00:02:17,014 THE MAIN GOAL FOR US WAS TO TAKE THESE BATTERIES, 64 00:02:17,014 --> 00:02:19,366 EACH WEIGHING ABOUT 200, 250 POUNDS, 65 00:02:19,366 --> 00:02:21,405 AND MOVE THEM FROM THE ROBOTIC ARM 66 00:02:21,405 --> 00:02:23,180 THAT WAS HOLDING THEM FROM THE SPACE SHUTTLE AND 67 00:02:23,180 --> 00:02:24,842 MOVE THEM ON TO THE SPACE STATION. 68 00:02:24,842 --> 00:02:28,131 THIS HAD NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE SO IT WAS VERY THRILLING. 69 00:02:28,131 --> 00:02:30,125 THE LONG DURATION MISSION IS QUITE A BIT DIFFERENT 70 00:02:30,125 --> 00:02:31,678 FROM THE SHUTTLE MISSION. 71 00:02:31,678 --> 00:02:34,050 YOU REALLY FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BECOME A RESIDENT 72 00:02:34,050 --> 00:02:36,400 OF SPACE, A RESIDENT OF ZERO-G. 73 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:37,775 AND YOU START TO FEEL 74 00:02:37,775 --> 00:02:40,320 LIKE YOU'RE GETTING THE IDEA OF HOW THIS WORKS. 75 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:43,616 I'M LOOKING FORWARD MORE TO FLYING WITH 76 00:02:43,616 --> 00:02:45,527 THREE PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T FLOWN IN SPACE BEFORE. 77 00:02:45,527 --> 00:02:48,309 THIS IS A VERY UNIQUE CREW, THEY ARE INCREDIBLY 78 00:02:48,309 --> 00:02:52,304 OPERATIONALLY SAVVY ALREADY. I IMAGINE FROM THEIR PRIOR 79 00:02:52,304 --> 00:02:55,027 JOBS AT ESA, AND IN THE MILITARY. 80 00:02:55,027 --> 00:02:57,440 I KNOW THEY CAN DO THE JOB THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT. 81 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:00,593 ONE OF THE GREAT LEGACIES OF THE 82 00:03:00,593 --> 00:03:03,291 SPACE STATION IS NOT JUST GOING TO BE 83 00:03:03,291 --> 00:03:04,187 THE SCIENCE, 84 00:03:04,187 --> 00:03:05,841 BUT VERY IMPORTANTLY THE INTERNATIONAL 85 00:03:05,841 --> 00:03:09,071 COOPERATION. IT'S NOT FOR SURVIVAL, 86 00:03:09,071 --> 00:03:11,542 IT'S NOT FOR COMPETITION IN THE MARKETPLACE, 87 00:03:11,542 --> 00:03:14,000 IT IS FOR JUST EXPLORATION. 88 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,790 AND IT'S JUST A VIBRANT WONDERFUL PLACE 89 00:03:16,790 --> 00:03:19,401 WHERE GREAT SCIENCE IS HAPPENING. 90 00:03:19,933 --> 00:03:21,933 [MUSIC]