- So you just went 12 miles in space, 2012 miles.
- I just went 2012 miles.
- Space miles.
- Yeah, well we don't need to tell 'em that.
(choir music and keys clicking)
- [Hillary] This is commander Emma Green here.
Getting to Mars it requires the best of us,
from all of us.
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I feel like I'm dreaming.
This is just remarkable.
- Karen Nyberg, so nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
It's so great to be here.
I'm just so gobsmacked, quite frankly
that I'm speaking to you.
I can't believe we're actually watching them up
at The International Space Station right now working.
- [Karen] On board right now, we have Jessica Meir.
She was in the class of 2013,
which is the first class to have half women and half men.
There was four of each.
Which I think is fantastic.
- Wow.
- It's cool, isn't it.
- It's so cool.
Hello, it's so incredible to be here
and to see you up there.
I'm, I'm quite emotional.
Believe it or not.
I wanted to be an astronaut at five years old.
I, I just play one.
I'm just so gobsmacked, quite frankly
that I'm speaking to you.
I feel like I'm dreaming.
Well, I feel that way a lot of here too.
So you're a good company.
- [Hilary] How long have you been up there?
- [Jessica] I've been up here a little bit over four months.
I arrived at the end of September.
- What's your favorite thing up there right now?
- How overwhelming and how incredible all of it is
because it's something that we've been training for
for so long.
I've been training for this for over six years now
and I've been dreaming of being an astronaut
since I was five years old.
But nothing really can prepare you
for how it feels personally.
And for me, as soon as I arrived
and you're just floating all the time, 24 hours a day.
I mean, you're, you're down here,
you can jump up to the ceiling,
like, be like a Spiderman, spin all around,
(Hillary laughing) do whatever you want.
- I was gonna ask you, what is one of your favorite parts
of being an astronaut, but I'm, that might answer
my question, your pose right now.
You look awesome.
That is so fun.
I can't even believe it.
- [Jessica] It really does turn you
into a bit of a five-year-old,
where, you know no matter what time of day it is
it's something you might just end up
doing a little spin because you can.
And I think one of my favorite things
as part of this mission
has been the spacewalks
that we've been fortunate enough to do.
We did nice spacewalks during that four month period.
And that's a lot more than normal.
So we were doing a lot
of maintenance and activity up by the Space Station
and that was a really incredible thing to be a part of.
- I just got so emotional listening to you
talk about that.
- I think the other thing
that's really extraordinary though.
I love to look at it from up here
are the oceans and the currents.
So you can see where rivers are emptying out.
You can see the different colors of the water
and when you're in the Cupola, looking down on the Earth
and that feeling, it's just simply difficult to describe
and put it into words.
- I can only imagine,
what a blessing that you get to experience that.
- Would love to go to Mars one day.
But again, in this series that you'll be exploring.
Maybe you'll get there before any of us.
- Yeah, I'll give me some tips when you guys are ready.
(giggling) - Wanna do a photo with her?
- [Hilary] Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Should I do a Cartwheel?
- [Photographer] Yeah.
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- So this is all of the space shuttle flights
that did the assembly of Space Station.
- Oh, that's so cool. - Yeah.
- So these are different iterations?
- Iterations as the Space Station was being built.
And that's the-- - You have been on that
and gone into space.
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- So you met your husband in here, in training?
- Right, we were both in the class of 2000 of Astronauts.
- That's incredible.
Is there any chance
that you guys could ever go to space together?
- We wouldn't, because we have a child.
So even if there was a opportunity to do that,
I don't, we wouldn't do that.
(cheering and clapping)
- [Reporter] And there are their families
right in front of them.
- [Male Reporter] The virtual hugs, a very special moment.
- [Announcer] Three, two, one, zero, ignition.
Lift off for the Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon.
Go NASA, go SpaceX.
God's speed Bob and Doug.
- One of the things I get asked a lot is,
are you gonna have kids?
Or when are you gonna have kids?
- Right. - But my male counterpart,
doing the same interview, won't get asked that.
- Right. - Does that translate
into you guy's press?
- It kind of did.
I would get asked a lot about being a mom
and leaving my child behind and all that
where my male counterparts didn't
even though they were parents as well.
And I didn't, I didn't really mind
because he's the most important thing in my life.
So you can ask me about him all you want.
Turns out probably 90% of the men
who have flown on long duration
have children where only maybe 20% of the women.
So most of the men are fathers.
- Right. - And don't get asked
that question as frequently as I did,
at least I noticed at the time.
- Yeah, that's fascinating to me.
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- [Hillary] Okay, where are we?
- [Karen] This is the Countermeasures Lab.
And this is where they have all of the exercise equipment.
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- In space, if you're not strapped down,
you won't be running very long.
- [Hillary] No, you won't.
- So one of the things--
- You'll be running in the air.
- One of the things we need to do is put you in a harness.
- Okay. - And.
- I've worn a lot of these in the show
to pretend that I'm in zero G.
- [Bob] We're not going to go very fast.
- We'll just pretend we are
they'll speed the film up. (all laughing)
- [Karen] The whole thing's on a vibration isolation system
your kind of moving funny.
Or, and when I started, I walked, I couldn't get to a jog.
I had to work up to it,
- Yeah, this is a lot of work,
- up to a jog with that load.
And then we could - This might be
the new like workout.
We might create something.
This is really intense you guys.
I'm, and I'm just walking.
I'm about to start breathing hard.
- [Bob] So you just went 12 miles in space, 2012 miles.
- I just went 2012 miles.
- Space miles.
- Yeah, well we don't need to tell them that.
So we're coming off the T2 to the, what?
- [Karen] This is the, ARED,
the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device,
which is basically our weightlifting machine.
- You guys need like a, you need a full on degree
just for this machine. - Let alone
for going into space. - We do a lot of,
we do a lot of training on it.
- Is this where you pull your espresso, right here?
- [Bob] We can load this lift bar up to 600 pounds,
and then you can pull-- - That's what I need.
- we can pull on that cable up to 250 pounds.
- [Hillary] This is not like the equipment at Gold's gym.
- Wanna give it a go? - Yeah.
- All right, stand up nice and straight.
- Oh yeah, you got it on 600.
- So.
(Hillary exhaling heavily)
- [Karen] These exercises also
take some getting used to in space
because this platform is floating.
Good job with all the equipment,
I think you're a natural.
- [Hillary] Thanks.
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- [Karen] This is the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility.
And we have full-size mock-ups
of the entire habitable volume of the Space Station.
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So where we're walking right now is the Japanese lab
and this is true to size.
This is exactly the size.
We have equipment and science on this,
this is called the Overhead,
The Deck, Forward and AFT.
- And other portals like that
where you look down-- - There is a window.
They called it the Lab Window.
There's a sleep station on the overhead
and the deck and port and starboard.
- Oh wow. - And this
is basically the size.
And so we would put our sleeping bags on the wall.
We had a couple of computers
and this is kind of the homie part of Space Station sort of.
- We've definitely done the film version of a sleeping pod.
When you see ours,
you'd be like, - oh yeah.
- that is not what ours look like. (laughing)
- Let's see, here's our bathroom.
So we have a limited number of washcloths
and towels we can use.
So I would try to conserve it and I would use,
you squirt water from a bag.
I would comb it up because combing it down
would be useless because it doesn't stay down.
- Yeah. - So you just kind
of comb it up.
- [Hillary] That's so fun.
- Yeah. - And then you,
so after you're done
with your towels after they're dirty
'cause clearly you don't have a washing machine.
You just put them in a bag and then?
- We put them in the trash
and then they go, they get burned up in the atmosphere
But we would, after--
- That's one way to do laundry.
- Exactly.
This is where we eat our dinners.
There's a galley table.
This is where we prepare our food.
- [Hillary] Has the food gotten better?
Speaking of-- - The food is good actually.
I, I enjoyed the food.
There's a huge variety.
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- Hello. - Hi there.
- Hi there, nice to see you.
- Good to meet you.
- Hi, I'm Hillary.
- Kimberly, it's nice to meet you today.
- Nice to meet you too, all right.
What do you have here?
- So we have some space food products
that we'd like to share with you.
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We've got asparagus and pineapple.
- Oh yes. - We have a facility here
at JSC called the Space Food Systems Laboratory.
- Okay. - And so these
are very similar to the meals
ready to eat pouches that the military uses
but we have our own formulations.
- [Karen] What you do is you add water in the galley,
to your node one into it
to hydrate it and then let it sit.
Usually it'll tell you how long they want you to let it sit.
- Five to 10 minutes it says here on this package.
- [Karen] And it'll tell you hot water,
cold water, depending on what the food is.
- Excellent, then you cut it open.
And how do they, they don't they fly away?
- [Karen] No, usually there's enough liquid in it
that it all sticks together.
- Oh, that's good.
That's so good.
Word on the street is, you know, all
in all the movies that are depicted,
oh, it's not good, can't wait to get back to Earth to eat.
- We have a-- - This is better
than most food I find,
- Yes, we have a very wide variety
- on Earth.
- I mean they've really been working on getting the recipes.
A lot of fruits choose from,
a lot of entrees to choose from.
We take raw pineapple and hand cut it and pouch it.
- This is so good. - Yeah the fruit,
- This is fresh.
- [Kimberley] That's actually a package
for you to take today and,
- Oh my gosh.
- see what different kinds of products we make are.
- My mom and dad are gonna fight over this.
Thank you.
- [Kimberley] You're very welcome.
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- [Karen] This is the Orion
which is what is going to take us to the moon.
And it could also go to Mars eventually.
So basically the idea is this goes beyond low Earth orbit.
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- This is cool.
Okay, so is this where you would lay in when you take off?
- Yeah, so this would hold four crew members.
You can see all of your systems, you know, RCS
your Reaction Control System, the different valves.
When they're open, when they're closed
what the pressures are.
- Like, you know what you're doing.
I know what I'm doing.
- Right. - And we do it.
- Ready to go?
No, I wanted-- - To space?
- Yes! - That's what I mean.
- I'm ready to go to Space.
- Yes. - I don't wanna leave.
♪ When I float away ♪
♪ I get closer ♪
- [Hillary] Showing up at NASA was a dream come true.
It's something that I always wanted to experience.
♪ We can go the distance ♪
- I wanted to be an astronaut.
This is extraordinary.
I was emotional when I walked in.
♪ Up, up, up, up and away ♪
- The exploration that that is being accomplished
and what's happening in the future,
it's just been, it seems surreal.