It is a long road, and it is very hard. I've seen him behind the scenes I've seen the hard work
He's [put] in and here. We are and this is the moment and so it can't
You know it can't not
Pull you in and you know joke a team here and there
I do
Sometimes dream of being in space sometimes I'll wake up, and I'll tell [them] [Ii] go ahead this dream
I was launching on space shuttle or the space station and sometimes there are people with me like she's been with me in my dreams
My kids have but in reality while I'm up there most of humanity is 250 miles below you
If anything goes wrong on earth, you're not coming home
for decades human beings as a whole and Americans in particular have been talking about going to Mars as
long ago as
1969 after the apollo 11 moon landing people were predicting Americans would be on Mars by
1975
It has been a dream deferred
for half a century
Getting to mars requires multiple systems in Nasa to be working at once
The system. That's the most fragile [indestructible] of all however is the human body
It's the one we didn't invent. It's the one we're stuck with
If we plan to get to mars we have to figure out how to make that
Biological machine survive in a place it was not built to survive
Scott Kelly has been working toward this mission his entire career. He's been working toward this mission his entire life in some respects
he knows what it's like to have a
football-field-sized piece of 100 billion dollar infrastructure in his control and now he's going back for
One Year to run one of the most important biomedical studies, Nasa has ever run
Yeah, but why [you] misses the people and then the the weather?
It's kind of like
Well, it's going outside. [you] know you ever. There's no sun on your face
You never feel this on my feet this fire. You never feel this cold breeze
It's always exactly the same
So I had this Texans hat and it was completely
Faded and stained and it was the best hat ever and then I lost them
so I went and
I
[bought] two of the exact same hats this one's Gonna go to
Kazakhstan with me, but then I took the other one
I screwed him to the fence over there, and he's gonna be exposed to the [Houston] weather for a year
And he's gonna turn back into old smokey for me when I get home
You're gonna come home in a year later, and you can see [your] chainsaw [you] do [I] hope not you
Won't figure it out
When the first time was I actually had an [interaction] with you at one you know you came in
And I thought I [it] was so weird to me now to think of that. I couldn't it was my brother
I know couldn't tell the difference between the two of you
Which is weird to me now, because I can tell when you're walking away like I know in the back way who's who?
Yeah, we used to look I guess very much alike
to some extent still I mean for people who don't know us and
My mother used to dress us the same now look at these old pictures
You know with you know orange shorts and a striped orange shirt and a bow tie
When we were little we had like our own secret language
And we did almost everything together. You know I remember laying in bed one time in the morning
And talking to my brother. How about how we were Gonna build an airplane in the backyard
You [know] we just said five or six years old we figured we could do that if we had the skill to do this
Obviously, we did we didn't get very far with the airplane
or later with the spaceship
You know I think twins tend to be a little bit different. You [know]. I think their [relationship] is different than just siblings
The City's not meant to Walker
Nasa's do any kind of a comparative study between my brother mark, and I since four identical twins I
Call him much more when I'm in space than I do on Earth
And it's because you know you you [just] feel like you're so far away. You need to try to maintain some kind of a connection
I'll be probably more excited [for] him than anybody else. You know I flown four flights. This will be his fourth flight
You know for my mom's passed away, but for my dad. You know to have
You know gone through this whole experience. You know eight times now. It's a lot
Throughout history people have done things that are risky
So even though it is a risky [thing] to be doing then
I think it's a lot more risky than some people might think it in my mind is worth it [even]
[if] you know the
unfortunate and Tragic
thing was to happen to you know myself and my crewmates I
Still think it's worth it being part of something that you feel is larger than yourself
Yes, sir. Like it's going to be a long [year] for me. I'll tell you that
Dad I can call you from space and harass you just as much as I can [I] write you over the frontier
Don't have to worry okay. Thank you
What did you say this morning? That was funny, and I told you don't say that yet?
It will be talking about
[Matheny's] oh you say he's a good bump it goodbye
Goodbye, [then] gonna Miss your silky smoothness [sure] how to remote works I
Don't even got it. I think I got
Borrow me a jump in the shower real quick, okay?
Hello Scott. Hey, Gabby, and I just wanted to say on my
origin
Own voyage, and you know we know you only have a couple more days here in the us
And then you're gone for I don't know like five years
You know what it is. How long [oh]?
one Year in space
Hey, dad. I just want you to know that. I'm really gonna Miss you
[you've] made so many sacrifices over the years for Charlotte, and I you helped me become the person [I] am today
Hi, Dad. I
like to wish you
Good luck on your trip
It's exciting and you're going to be working, but remember to take in the view I love you daddy. Thank
[you] people [ask] me what am I gonna do and I always just say you know
I'm Gonna just see how far love traveling
we want to know how long you is it's
[31.6] million seconds, it'll be 30 1.6. Million times. You're on my mind [I]
Said to my [brother]. I'll be in space and flying all the way around the sun. You know one lap in a year
he's like yeah, so will I the rest of us will be doing the same thing on spAceship Earth, [I]
The question, how does it feel to be the daughter of an astronaut?
You [know] he's been an astronaut since I was 1 years old. I wouldn't know anything else
I can't compare it to anything else. So you know everybody's like oh, yeah, it's so cool. Your dad said your dad's an astronaut
He's going to space for a year and for me. I'm like yeah. He's my dad
You know he's my dorky Dad
One who gets mad at me if I don't do my [homework] or you know if I don't come home on time
He's still my dad. No matter what his job is and you know he's a great one at that
you