-Explorer, Dr. Stone requesting faster transport to bay area.
Explorer, do you copy?
-Explorer, permission to retrieve Dr. Stone?
-You're a go, Kowalski.
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-Hi from the "Gravity" Junket in Los Angeles.
Today is so exciting.
I was just talking to Sandra Bullock about the new movie,
"Gravity."
And now, I'm standing next to two real-life astronauts.
Cady and Michael, thank you so much for being here today.
-Pleasure.
-It's such a cool opportunity to get to talk to you.
-It's our pleasure.
-So you just saw the movie, right?
How did you like it?
-It was awesome to go to space again without actually leaving
the planet.
To me, Mike, it just looked like what we see up there.
And it also, I think, makes everybody down here
realize that people live in space right now-- in the movie
and also in real life.
We have a space station.
We're doing research up there.
I trained in [? Koln ?] and also over Pfaffenhofen
for my European training for the space station.
And it's a 16-country international team
doing amazing work up there.
-Wow.
So, was there a scene that didn't feel real?
Was there a scene where you thought, nope,
that's not how it goes?
-Well, it's a movie.
When we do our work, we're generally very,
very conservative because it is very risky,
which they showed in the movie.
So you move very slowly.
And you're very conservative about how you move around.
Some of the space walking is the way I would like to do it.
But they wouldn't let me.
-Really fast, and furious, and one thing--
-You want to go really slowly and very cautious
so you don't break anything.
And if there's an emergency, you can react well.
But they went spacewalking the way I would like to.
But in reality we're a little more conservative.
But it's a movie.
And I think it had so many other things.
The realism of the-- the model of the Hubble
looked exactly like the Hubble that I worked on.
And the tools they had, they had a cutter tool
that I hadn't seen since I've flown in space.
And then I saw it in the movie.
And it's a one of a kind tool that they had.
So it was a lot of realism there that
brought back some great memories.
-So, Cady, you got in touch with Sandra Bullock, right?
And through a very funny story, you
got in touch through your families.
-It's true.
My brother met her sister who said,
Sandy's making a movie about being an astronaut.
Would your sister talk to her?
And my brother said, I think so.
And it was really a neat event.
I was up there for six months.
And so this is about three months into it.
And after a little while living with five guys,
it's really nice to have a girlfriend to talk to.
-And Sandra Bullock as a girlfriend.
-I know.
It was actually really neat.
It's a special place that we get to be.
And to be able to share with her, knowing that she's
making this movie that is going to enable us to share
the important work we're doing, and how amazing it
is to see the Earth from that vantage point,
Just knowing that I was helping facilitate
that, that was really nice for me and really fun for our crew.
Our guys on the crew would say, did she ask about me?
-And you were having a beer with George Clooney, were you?
-No, I didn't.
But I will if he wants to.
But I think he did base his character on my personality,
because he's really cool in the movie.
-I love the sentence where he says, well,
I think you haven't realized how good-looking I am.
-Yeah, he didn't get that one from me.
I would have given him some other lines.
No, I've never had a-- but we think he's a cool guy.
And one of my last flights, we really
enjoyed watching his movies together.
Some of the Oceans movies that he did,
we liked watching them as a crew.
Because it was like a group a group
of people together doing a caper,
going doing something risky and fun.
And that's what we felt our space mission was like.
So we've enjoyed his work.
-"Gravity" is coming to the cinemas in the beginning
of October.
Be sure to check it out.
Thank you so much, guys.
Thank you.
-Pleasure.
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