hello I'm Sonny Williams I'm up here on
the International Space Station no want
to say where we are so right now we're
in the Japanese laboratory it's one
laboratory out of many here on the
International Space Station it's
actually on the left-hand side if I was
International Space Station and I was
flying through space like this my left
hand would be where the Japanese
laboratory is so now again we're on the
right hand side all the way on the right
of the International Space Station this
is Columbus the European module it has
science experiments all over you could
see it looks a little bit crowded and
here we do a lot of our medical
experiments
so this is no - this is a really cool
module of course most of these modules
you'll see they have four sides and
they're put together that way we could
sort of wat work on a flat plane either
a wall a floor another wall or the
ceiling but you know again all you have
to do is turn yourself and your
reference changes the reason I'm
bringing that up is because this is
where four out of six of us sleep and so
people always ask about sleeping in
space do you lie down are you in a bed
not really because it doesn't matter you
don't really have the sensation of lying
down you just sit in your sleeping bag
so here's one sleep station right here
I'm going in right now you can follow me
if you want
so I'm inside it's sort of like a little
phone booth but it's pretty comfy I've
got a sleeping bag right here that we
sleep in so we don't have a sort of like
a little bit of a cover and we don't fly
all over the place
but you know you can sleep in any
orientation I have it sleeping feeling
like I'm standing up right now but like
you saw him on the floor but it doesn't
matter if I turn over and I sleep upside
down I can't have it I don't have any
sensation in my head that tells me that
I'm upside down so it really doesn't
matter the sleep station is also like a
little office we've got a computer in
here as you can see we've got a couple
little toys I've got some books I've got
some clothes with other things that make
it sort of like home I'm coming out
and just for reference that's one sleep
station this one's another
right here
there's one on the ceiling if you want
to call it right here and then there's a
fourth on the other wall over here so
all of us sleep in a little bit of a
circle all right come on back there's
more to show you
here we are in the u.s. laboratory again
this is a laboratory with science
experience on all of the walls here all
sorts of stuff that we do and one of the
things we also do is we exercise we have
some exercise equipment on board the
space station we need to do that because
we lose bone density and muscle mass
while we're up here and that's a result
of not having to fight against gravity
so how we keep ourselves in shape are
with a bike a treadmill and a
weightlifting machine this is the bike
you notice the clip the pedals so all
you need to do is actually clip your
feet in and then you can start pedaling
you don't need a seat because you don't
sit down actually I haven't sat down for
six months now so you don't need any any
type of seat just make sure you're
you're held in with your pedals you
probably see that the bike bounces
around a little bit as I move it it's
not steady and held to the wall firmly
and the reason for that is
the space station is pretty big you saw
that there's also solar arrays on the
space station if we start putting any
forces into the space station it's going
to make those solar arrays bounce around
a little bit so to prevent that the
machines bounce around a little bit move
around a little bit and that way we
don't put any forces on to the structure
of the spacecraft out to the solar
arrays all right a little farther on
come on
here's a pretty cool place this is sort
of like in your house where everybody
meets in the morning after you wash your
face brush your teeth you want to find
something for breakfast and this is our
kitchen
you might notice there's all sorts of
foods here it's like opening the
refrigerator you've got all your
different stuff that you want to have
drinks meats eggs vegetables cereals
bread snacks and that's a good place
that's where you find all the candy side
dishes and then some little power bars
just in case so we have all this type of
food some of it is dehydrated and so we
have to hydrate it fill it up with water
some of it is already made and then all
we have to do is heat it up so something
like this I'm pulling out barbecued beef
brisket pretty yummy not only is this
food made in the US but we also have
food here from Japan
we've got Russian food as you can see
all these red containers are filled with
food that's from Russia and then we get
some of our specialty stuff some things
that we like some of our favorite stuff
that your family can send up in fact I
like fluffernutter's and so I got sent
up some fluff so I could make my
fluffernutter with peanut butter so you
have a lot of food up here no problems
I'm here with my two buddies in the
airlock actually these are two
spacesuits that are ready primed up to
go outside as we call it to go do a
spacewalk in case we have to do any
thing outside some of the things we do
outside there's just like inside repairs
we have a lot of electrical boxes and
machinery in solar arrays in fact that I
talked about earlier that are outside
and sometimes they don't work quite
right remember space is really cold and
really hot and it's also the vacuum of
space with no pressure and so some of
the equipment doesn't work well all the
time so we might have to go out and do a
spacewalk right behind me is actually
the hatch that you go out into space and
right now we have it filled up with a
couple other spacesuits because we've
got four of them up here and some of our
tools but right behind here is the hatch
in which you actually go right outside
into the vacuum of space the space suit
is pretty big as you can see it's like
being a football player part of the
reason it's so big and bulky is because
of this backside this backpack it's like
going on a hike with a backpack but the
backpack and the suit weighs about 300
pounds luckily in space nothing really
weighs anything so you don't feel that
it's so heavy but we need to have such a
big suit because that guy back there is
essentially the heart of the space craft
this I call this actually a spacecraft
it has all the oxygen for you it has all
the carbon dioxide removal system for
you it also has a heating and cooling
system to make sure the regulate our
body temperatures while we're outside it
also has a computer so it tells you on a
display here if there's anything that is
going wrong with the suit if we're
running out of oxygen if we have too
much carbon dioxide
or any type of electrical problem so
it's a pretty awesome little spacecraft
and actually got to go out use my
spacecraft little spacecraft a couple
times and it worked like a charm lucky
that it works very nice you might want
to see what the helmet looks like it's
pretty cool too we don't usually go out
like this so you usually can see for the
helmets open so you can see what it
looks like inside somebody's little head
would be inside of here so you can see
you can turn your head all the way
around while you're inside of there but
the helmet stays still so it's
determined you're how far you could see
and it's usually pretty sunny out there
so we have to wear our sunglasses and
this is our sunglasses right here which
make you look pretty cool
here we are at the throne this is
awesome
you might see their little you might
have noticed a little moon on the
outside this is our orbital outhouse
right here
and of course it serves for two
functions
number two right here I'll show you but
you see it's pretty small so you have to
have pretty good aim and you'll be ready
to make sure things get let go the right
direction and it smells a little bit so
I'm closing it up and that's of course
for number two and this guy right here
is for number one so there's sort of two
slightly separate functions but you can
do a little essentially both by hanging
on right here and doing number one and
number two I might add it's color-coded
so you really don't get it mixed up
which is nice this is yellows for number
one and also there's a selection of
paper people always ask about toilet
paper what do you do with toilet paper
what kind of toilet paper do you have we
have gloves just because sometimes it
does get messy we have some Russian
wipes which are a little bit coarse if
you like the coarse type of toilet paper
we have some nice tissues which are nice
and soft if you like soft toilet paper
we have Huggies just for any cleanup you
know we're all babies once and this sort
of helps and then if things get really
out of control we have
disinfectant wipes just to make sure we
clean up here because you know just like
the water I showed you the number one
stuff can sort of go all over the place
if you don't aim correctly and did I
mention both of these have a little bit
of section so they should keep things
going in the right direction
but like I said sometimes things get a
little out of control if you are out of
control yourself flying around so we
have lots of protective stuff and of
course you do have your privacy there's
a little door so other people know that
you're in there now I'm going to take
you to one of the coolest places on the
Space Station
it's like a glass-bottom boat this is
the cupola it stick sticks down below
the space station it's one of those
places you find yourself hanging out and
all the time because all you want to do
is look back at our planet I think some
questions I had were about what are you
doing your free time and you can't help
but want to just come to the cupola and
look outside as much as you can and a
lot of folks I play this game with
myself about where we're flying over the
earth I try to come in here and just
guess after being here for a little
while you can sort of figure it out you
can tell different cloud types over
different continents you can tell
different soil types over different
continents so let's see and then of
course there's a lot of ocean so usually
we're over the ocean at first glance I
will tell you in just a moment where we
are
what
there we go right now we are right over
Africa it's a little bit cloudy as you
can tell so we're right over the
continent of Africa hey what's that I
think that's a Soyuz spacecraft that's
the spacecraft that's taking us home to
Planet Earth today oh my gosh we might
have to go take a look at that that's
pretty cool it's a little bit smaller
than the rest of the spacecraft the
space station so you'll see if we get go
there it will be a little bit more
cramped well we're going you can look
all the way back to the back of the
spacecraft which is where the Russian
segment is and then you could look all
the way forward to the front of the
spacecraft where the where the Japanese
laboratory the European laboratory and
the American laboratory hey one thing I
didn't show you or I talked about but I
didn't show you was the exercise one
another piece of exercise device this is
what we call the a red and with this you
can lift weights
based on vacuum in these cylinders just
like you do at home at a gym for example
if I wanted to do a squat I could do it
like this which means some weight on
this thing I'm not lifting with anything
so it's dirty it's too easy
one of the cool things you could do you
could do things that you can't do at
home for example single leg squats with
just one leg because the other leg you
won't fall over so all sorts of stuff
you can also do bench press we have a
bench that we could add on here so you
can work on your beach muscles alright I
showed you the Soyuz let's go check it
out
hey Aki what are you doing down there
this is one of the cool things about
space - it sort of looks like there's a
big old hole here but you don't even
think twice about it you can just jump
over the hole or if you want you can go
jump into the hole I'm coming down back
up again like Superman we were lucky we
have a really cool big Space Station
that you can fly around and that's
actually called
the PMM you might have thought out the
window is a big silver canister what's
really great about that is it's
essentially our closet in our pantry or
whatever you want to call it
we have extra food down there we have
extra clothes we actually throw the
trash out down there so it's nice and
organized and we have all of our stuff
that we need while we're working in all
these other modules all stowed in this
location down here and it's a lot of fun
to play in now that's a lot bigger than
the Soyuz oh one thing we need to show
you is our patches here well we've been
up here we've been expedition 32 first
and then just recently we're leaving
will be
we were expedition 33 and there's all
the crew members who are up here with us
right now myself yuri malenchenko aki
hoshide if you couldn't read japanese
you've guinea tarelkin if you can read
Russian Oleg Novitsky and Kevin Ford who
just took over as the commander of the
space station and will be the commander
for the next couple months and he by the
way is behind the camera right now so
you can say hi Kevin they were going
into the Russian segment
you ready you don't need a passport
either
it goes a lot farther back than this
we'll go take a trip and say hello to
the boys down there in just a minute but
let's do that first actually then we'll
go down to the Soyuz at the very end
this is your beginning this is the FGB
and what's cool about this modular it is
actually the very first piece of the
space station that came up in 1998 the
space station has been around for about
now man for 12 years but it's been up in
space for about 14 years and this was
the very first it is like the Russians
PMM it has a lot of storage as you can
see
so here we are in the heart of the space
station really this is the service mall
module this is the central post in case
we had any problems I know when a couple
of the questions are about what type of
things do you have to worry about and
some of the things we have to worry
about in space are fire if we had a fire
if we had a depressurization like we
were kicked by a micrometeorite and they
made a hole or if we had some type of
toxic atmosphere we use ammonia for our
radiator so there is a possibility that
ammonia could come into the vehicle and
then it would be bad for all of us if we
have any of those problems we come right
here which we call the central post it
is the main heart of the space station
it was also the first computers that
came up here that ran the space station
so behind this wall right here are these
main computers so we gather here as a
group of three or six and then figure
out how we're gonna either fight the
fire patch the hole or solve the the
toxic spill and what's cool about this
module of course is the central post it
also has great windows right down toward
Earth it has controls to fly in visiting
spacecraft if
some assistance right here it has
Russian computers as well as American
computers to help us control anything we
need to on the space station it's a cup
of our crewmates back there live Oleg
Novitsky on the right and nearing
launching code on the left
there's also second bathroom here which
is really cool because six of us going
to but one bathroom is really tough and
so there's one bathroom here in one
bathroom on the other side where I
showed you and you can probably see on
the wall behind a leg and earring some
of the heroes of the space program
Korolev Sergei Korolev who was a chief
designer of putting men into space and
of course on the right hand side Yuri
Gagarin the first man
this reminds us of our roots
I'm gonna I'm gonna stop here just for a
quick second you can see on the Russian
spacecraft there's also other modules
that stick out down and above right here
is let's see I'm trying to be oriented
that's a place where we do spacewalks
trim for the Russians the Russian side
there's Russian spacesuits in here and
also a visiting vehicle which brought
fruits and vegetables and becomes a
trash container when we undock upon this
side is also a future place where
they're going to do spacewalks from and
connected to it is Kevin's a legs and
you're Ginny's Soyuz spacecraft
and I will still see hours Venezia at
the program
coming down
it's a little tricky getting in here
this is the docking probe right here
this big thing this helps us connect to
the spacecraft this probe actually
sticks into this cone
and that's how the spacecraft this our
Soyuz becomes connected to the ISS
initially that is then replaced by
clamps which are around here that will
allow the two spacecraft to be stuck
together and then you can remove the
probe in the cone
all right so here we are business or use
this is what we call the vet oh the
living compartment fit Savoy on second
Russian it also has a little bathroom
it's not as good as the other bathrooms
so we try not to use it too much
it has drinking water in it if we need
something to drink and then of course
it's filled up with a lot of cargo for
us for us bringing up and also bringing
back down it has a second purpose when
it comes back to earth it serves as a
garbage container during the descent
will will get rid of this area right
here and everything that's in it will
just burn up as it's coming into the
atmosphere so that way we can get rid of
a little bit of trash but the main area
where we were when launched and where we
are going to be on descent is down here
because we're not part of the trash so
we're in a safe place so we're in the
descent module si
it's a little small but you can get in
not sure how well you could see in here
hold on for a second
I'm gonna turn it up this way just so
you could see the hatch and you can see
Kevin it's a little bit small but we'll
come in and show you around just
starting to get ready we're preparing a
couple days ago for a ride home it's a
little bit squishy but everybody asks
how do you sit in the Sawyer's and you
sort of sit in your seat like this seat
is molded to your body and so you can
just sort of squish in here and be
pretty relaxed everybody has a handmade
seat for them and then of course there's
a control panel and that's where we do
most of our actions and work right here
there's hand controllers which you can
fly the vehicle with and there's a stick
right here primarily used for
communications when we're trying to talk
to the ground so three of us fit in here
like I said it's a little squishy but
somehow it seems like we all managed to
get in here and and fit pretty well and
it's a pretty safe ride home
you're probably wondering what's all
this junk behind us well it's all of our
parachute first of all and then it's all
of our survival gear just in case we end
up landing in some strange place on the
planet and nobody is there to rescue us
right away we have all sorts of survival
gear with us keeping us safe in here so
they're pretty much thought of
everything
we'll be home on the planet within the
next 12 hours pretty shocking
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