MS. STILSON: We've had amazing response from our question board and people all over the world have questions for you.
Are you ready to answer a few of them?
MS. HIRE: You bet. MS. STILSON: Jorge from Mexico asks,
what are your thoughts in the first ten seconds of flight?
MS. HIRE: Well, I can tell you from my experience personally. I flew as MS-2, mission specialist number two,
and that was the flight engineer. So I was on the flight deck, and my responsibility during the ascent portion of the mission
was to help the commander and the pilot monitor the systems onboard and make sure that everything was going fine,
and if there were any problems, to take specific actions. So my thoughts just before the launch were just rehearsing
exactly which gauges, which displays, which things I would be looking at and what things I would be expecting;
kind of rehearsing that in my head. And I think most crew members do that, just as the launch countdown is proceeding.
They're anticipating what's going to happen, because we practice this so many times in simulation and it's become quite routine to us.