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id="thebody" style="defaultCaption">Mike
Massimino: So here we are at the world's largest indoor pool.MM:
It is- yeah, it's true.
What do you think, I'm making this stuff up here?
Come on.
I think it is.Jin Hansen: The biggest
pool there is?MM: The biggest pool- indoor
pool.JH: You don't have a natatorium or anything?<p
begin="00:00:23.400" end="00:00:28.966">MM: What is a natatorium?
Where people swim?
Is that what you mean?JH: Isn't your kid on a
swim team?MM: Yes.
I think it comes from the word nuotare, which means to swim in-<p begin="00:00:34.433"
end="00:00:46.633">MM: In what?
In Italian.
Anyway, how did we got on this?
Natatorium, yes.
I don't- when you're filming me- do you want to get on this side so you don't fall in the
water?MM: Because one rule we have here at the Neutral
Buoyancy Lab- NBL- Is don't fall in the water.MM:
Other than that, you can do pretty much whatever you want.MM:
But no.
It is, Jim.
It is the largest indoor swimming pool if you consider all the water that's inside of
it.
Because it's-JH: Deep?MM:
Yeah, it's very deep.
It's a hundred feet wide, it's two hundred feet long, and it's forty feet deep.<p
begin="00:01:05.433" end="00:01:14.433">MM: So, maybe there is a natatorium that is wider
or longer, but when you combine the length and the width and the-<p begin="00:01:13.000"
end="00:01:15.533">JH: Depth.MM: Depth.
Then we get volume, that's what your kid's- you know, studying.<p begin="00:01:16.900"
end="00:01:27.766">MM: It's the largest indoor pool in the world.
There may be one that's outdoor, but this is not a swimming pool, might I add.
This is a working pool.MM: You know?
We come and do a swim test here in order to operate in here, but this is meant for people
to work and practice their spacewalks.MM:
So, this crew over here, this SCF-133 crew, is getting ready to practice one of their
spacewalks in the pool-MM: Watch out for the water.<p
begin="00:01:44.300" end="00:01:54.800">MM: Alright.
We don't want you falling in, Jim.
Jim is our cameraman, by the way.
Can I turn the camera on you for a second?
Yeah, see, there's Jim.
Here you go.MM: Alright, so- we're going to come over here
and these guys, they've got their fancy underwear on.MM:
What's going on here?
Making you get your right and your left together?Mike
Barratt: Right.
Tim Koppa: Dressy Bessy.
Mike's dressing me.MB: I play with paper dolls
at the end of the day.MM: Do you really?
That gets you ready for Tim?TK: Yeah.<p begin="00:02:18.066"
end="00:02:27.966">MB: Just want to make sure that there's no little bits of thread or lint
or anything like that to compromise your seal.MM:
Yeah, this is very- this is very important because you're going to lock him in there.
You know, underwater today, if there's a problem, they'll detect- they'll detect a leak.
But in space, you don't want any leaks of course, so-MM:
Mike's over here practicing, so-MB: So, you've got to do
this [INAUDIBLE].MM: When you get in space,
it will be- it will run very smoothly.MM:
Mike, you're the robot guy for all the EVAs, is that right?<p begin="00:02:58.300"
end="00:03:02.000">MB: I'm the suit IV guy and the robot guy.<p begin="00:03:01.166"
end="00:03:05.033">MM: The suit IV, which is a fancy way of saying you get them dressed.<p
begin="00:03:03.766" end="00:03:07.366">MB: That's right.
You've got to get them all-MM: Is that right?
You're like the butler.MB: That's right.<p
begin="00:03:07.300" end="00:03:09.833">MM: Alright.MB:
Get them all dressed and ready to go, then go hustle it over to the robotic work station.<p
begin="00:03:11.666" end="00:03:14.733">MM: And work the robot arm?<p begin="00:03:13.333"
end="00:03:14.866">MB: That's right.MM:
And you're always going to have one of the crew members on the end of the robot arm for
this stuff?TK: I'll be on the end.<p begin="00:03:18.466"
end="00:03:21.966">MM: For the whole time?
For this one?TK: For [INAUDIBLE] one and two.
I'll spend some time on the arm, and Mike's going to be flying it around.<p begin="00:03:24.300"
end="00:03:27.466">MM: That's the way to travel.TK:
It is a nice way to travel.MM: You know?
It's like driving around in a Lincoln or a Cadillac.MM:
Better than that even?TK: It's even better.<p
begin="00:03:30.500" end="00:03:33.733">TK: I think so.MM:
You say, "I want to go over here," and you go there.
You know?
It's nice.TK: [INAUDIBLE] He knows where to take me.<p
begin="00:03:36.400" end="00:03:41.533">MM: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
You say "I need to go over here".
Bang, he'll get you exactly where you need to go.MB:
Bang.
Like a hunk of bait on a fly rod.MM: Boom.
Yeah.
Like a what?MB: A hunk of bait on a fly rod.<p begin="00:03:46.700"
end="00:03:47.433">MM: Wow.TK: Yeah, that's a good
analogy.MM: Check it out.
They just locked Alvin inside, so-Nichole Stott: [INAUDIBLE].
Okay.MM: So he can't scratch his face anymore.<p
begin="00:04:01.600" end="00:04:05.266">NS: He can use the little-<p begin="00:04:04.666"
end="00:04:06.300">MM: He can use that, yeah.MM:
So Nicole, you've got any- you doing one of these EVAs as well?
Or two of them?
What are you doing?
Are you going outside for this one?NS:
No, I'll be the IV for these guys [INAUDIBLE].MM:
These are the only guys that are going outside?NS:
Yeah.MM: That's it?NS:
Yeah.
It's nice.
We have two, I think if we had three EVAs we might have swapped around a little bit.<p
begin="00:04:23.700" end="00:04:25.800">MM: Might swap around a little bit.<p begin="00:04:27.366"
end="00:04:29.066">NS: Working out nice, it'll be nice to see Al go out the door.<p begin="00:04:31.433"
end="00:04:36.033">MM: Well, you've done- you did a spacewalk on your first flight,
didn't you?NS: Yeah, with the 128 crew.<p begin="00:04:36.300"
end="00:04:38.666">MM: Yeah.NS: Amazing experience.<p
begin="00:04:39.566" end="00:04:44.800">MM: Yeah.
You wish you were going out again?
Or are you like, "Oh, let those guys go up there".<p begin="00:04:43.100"
end="00:04:45.566">NS: You know, I'm not going to lie.MM:
Yeah.
You'd like to go up again?NS: I'd love to do it again.
But I mean- Like, this is so cool to get to see- You know?
And I think the IV experience is going to be a neat thing, too.<p begin="00:04:55.100"
end="00:04:55.966">MM: Yeah.
You get to tell them what to do.NS: Because totally different-
yeah, I'll be the boss of them.MM: You should take advantage
of that, especially since you have to go outside and what you do is say, "Oh, this is
so easy.
It would be no problem for me." You know?
You tell them that- That's what you do to rub it in.MM:
If I was out there, this would be really easy, so I'm sure this won't take very- that kind
of thing, rub it in.NS: If I was out there-<p
begin="00:05:09.333" end="00:05:12.000">NS: Right.MM:
You know what I mean?NS: Right.<p begin="00:05:13.500"
end="00:05:16.600">MM: Yeah.NS: Right.
As classmates from 2000, these guys know very well that I can be the good boss of them.<p
begin="00:05:20.366" end="00:05:23.566">MM: A good- what does that mean?<p begin="00:05:22.233"
end="00:05:23.500">NS: The good boss of them.NS:
A nice boss, yeah.
I'm willing to tell them what to do, but they'll know I'm meaning it.<p begin="00:05:23.766"
end="00:05:24.633">MM: Like a nice boss?MM:
I think you should take advantage of that situation.NS:
We don't use these in space.MM: Don't use these weights-
why not, Nichole?
Tell us.NS: Well, because we don't need them for microgravity
but here, we're going to try to do our best, and these guys do a wonderful job of-<p
begin="00:05:44.433" end="00:05:48.033">MM: We won't have- we won't have them in space,
neither.NS: No.
I know, that's why we don't get [INAUDIBLE].NS:
Neutrally buoyant in the pool.
So, we try to simulate that.MM: Right, because people-
Even though you're in the water, you're still- things will still drop.
NS: Yeah, this is heavy, so.
We could put Al in there, he'd go straight to the bottom.<p begin="00:05:58.133"
end="00:06:06.400">MM: You know, you throw a rock, it'll drop.
It'll drop, it'll go.
So you need different things like this- this is made out of some kind of foam here, right?
Or lightweight stuff?NS: Yeah, and they can
apply a little foam.
Like weights in here.MM: They can put foam and
weights around here to try and get him so he's floating in there and that's the trick
of- these divers are very skilled at doing that.MM:
So you don't need these big weights in space.
What else do you want to tell us?
Is there like, any funny things that Al needs when he gets dressed?
That you've discovered?NS: No, no.
No, I don't think so.MM: No?<p begin="00:06:30.800"
end="00:06:35.400">NS: These guys are using them- did you use those safety tether packs
before?MM: What?NS:
The safety tether pack?MM: I guess not, because
I don't know what it is.
What is it?NS: Okay, you know how, you know, you've got this
deal where you get to a certain point and your tether runs out and you have to swap
to another tether-MM: No, see we were - we
only stayed inside the payload bay.NS:
Yeah, you were- You only got like ten feet out, right?MM:
We weren't allowed to go very far.
You know, like when your kid first takes his bicycle out?
You only let him go to the mailbox?NS:
Right.MM: That's kind of like- we weren't allowed to-
I mean, you guys go way far out on that space station.NS:
These guys are going way out.MM: We had to stay in the
neighborhood.
No, so we didn't have to worry about tethers or anything.NS:
Well, this is cool, because-MM: But go ahead.
So what is this now?NS: We have eighty-five
foot and fifty-five foot safety tethers.MM:
Right.NS: You always want to have one of these on you,
of course.
And so now, there's this way that you can hook these two tethers together and use one
as what we call a fair lead tether.NS:
And when you get to a certain point, you drop that one off, and then you're working, basically,
from your same anchor point way back at the airlock.
NS: But now you've got eighty-five feet plus another
eighty-five feet to go out on your-MM:
Oh, okay.MM: Sounds like a good idea.<p begin="00:07:28.400"
end="00:07:30.833">NS: So it basically doubles-NS:
Yeah, it's really cool.
Very simple.NS: Where did they go?
We put them on [INAUDIBLE].MM: Where are these things?
Now you've got me interested.MM: Alright, make sure
you get them.NS: And they're colored, like color-coded.
So you know this is my green anchor- or, my green fair lead hook-<p begin="00:07:40.066"
end="00:07:45.266">MM: That's clever.
Yeah, trying to make it astronaut-proof is what we call that.<p begin="00:07:42.500"
end="00:07:45.466">NS: Yes, exactly.MM:
So, you can't make mistakes.NS: Colors and numbers.<p
begin="00:07:46.100" end="00:07:49.400">MM: Colors are good.
Pictures are good, too.NS: Pictures.<p begin="00:07:50.800"
end="00:07:55.433">MM: You know, but that's too expensive sometimes, but the color is
a good thing.NS: You've got to get a big bag that comes out
of the airlock, it's got a big green G on it.MM:
Really?
Alright, so both of these guys are buttoned up.NS:
The tools will be next.
We'll load them up as soon as [INAUDIBLE].MM:
Alright.NS: Because you don't want to go out with, you
know, nothing on you.MM: You need tools.
Yeah, you need tools.MM: So he's putting on
what we call a mini work station.
Right in front of him that allows- MM:
You can set up the tools anyway you want for the day, and then you attach them to the suit
and then everything he needs- everything Al needs will be right in front of him.<p
begin="00:08:31.300" end="00:08:41.566">MM: He's got a camera to take pictures in case
he- sometimes you need to take pictures to document stuff, and then it's nice to have
a camera to take pictures of the nice scenery around you.NS:
Yeah, we're using this one.
Al, on the camera, this guy? [INAUDIBLE].MM:
That's a tether hook that Nicole's showing.
Everything needs to be tethered so we don't lose it.MM:
So once she attaches that hook, we're pretty sure that that camera won't float away and
if it does float away, the hook will allow Al to get it back.<p begin="00:09:02.033"
end="00:09:16.166">MM: And that gizmo there is a body restraint tether.
So the jaw on that thing, which is near Nicole's right arm- that you can attach to a handrail
to keep him steady.MM: So when he- so he won't
go floating around.
If he needs to be in one place, he can attach that thing and be nice and steady.<p begin="00:09:21.400"
end="00:09:25.666">MM: He can attach that to a handrail or a piece of the station.
MM: And this is another tether, so Al doesn't
float away.
He can attach that, keep him close to his work site as well.<p begin="00:09:38.200"
end="00:09:41.533">MM: He's got a lot of options to keep himself steady.<p begin="00:09:41.133"
end="00:09:44.666">MM: And then this is the safety tether here.<p begin="00:09:42.033"
end="00:09:44.900">NS: This is the safety tether pack.MM:
So this is what you were saying that is-NS:
So this would be like the fair lead hook.MM:
Right.NS: So this is the one that's on Al, and this
one goes back to the airlock.
So if you got out to some place that you needed more tether, you could drop this one on structure
and then this one would pull you another eighty-five feet out.MM:
Okay.
And he's always going to have that, because that's his safety tether- <p begin="00:10:05.000"
end="00:10:15.933">MM: will always be attached in case Al lets go for some reason and we-
so he doesn't float away he can get back with his- you know, the tether will bring him back.<p
begin="00:10:17.300" end="00:10:18.666">MM: Safety first.MM:
Now we're going to get him in the water.