Space Explorers: Moonrise on the ISS (2023)

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[ Dramatic music plays ]

[ Switch clicking ]

-When you sit on

the launch pad at that moment,

you have to be at peace

with everything in your life.

You want to make sure

that everything...

Everything's in order

and that...

people you love

know that you love them

and people that you've wronged

know that you're sorry.



Those final moments,

the person that is spending

the most time with you

is actually your flight surgeon,

your doctor.

They're the last person

that you see.

And you kind of hand them

the last important things,

like your cellphone

and your wallet.



And now you're wearing clothes

that have been picked out

for you.

You're going on

a six-month trip,

and you're not even taking

a toothbrush with you.



I was just Anne.

It is the most rawly human

that I've ever felt.



When we got to orbit,

it was nighttime,

and all I could see

was blackness.



And as we're flying,

I remember something

catching my eye.

And I look out,

and I see this thin, blue line.

You can just tell

that it's curved.

And I realized I was seeing

my first sunrise from space.



And I caught my crewmate's eye,

David,

and we just looked

at each other.

There was a smile on both of our

faces, and we just looked back.



-And confirmed hatch opening,

1:37 p.m. Central Time.

The International Space Station

was 250 miles...

-When I came through the hatch,

it was actually the first time

that I was in free float.

If there was

a quantitative moment

when you achieve your dream,

it's when you float

through that hatch...

-First down

is NASA's Anne McClain.

- because it's the first time

in your whole life

that nothing's gonna stop you

from getting to the

International Space Station.

-Being united

with the Expedition 57 crew.

Her first spaceflight.

-You're there.

You're just there.

And the joy is overwhelming.



[ Soft music plays ]



Okay. I'm Anne McClain,

and I'm on serial number 1001

for the audio recorder.

And this is my first

astronaut log event, so...

So, there's the sync-up.

I'm an engineer.

I'm a black-and-white thinker.

I'm not an orator.

But for my part,

I'm gonna do everything can

to try to describe to you...

really what this experience

is all about.

I really wish everybody on Earth

could have the perspective

that we have living up here,

you know?

And I think it's easy to assume

that that perspective

comes from sitting at a window

and looking back at Earth.

But a lot of that perspective

actually comes from

what it takes to live in space

and the people

that we do this with.

[ Dramatic mic plays ]





There's nobody further away

from Earth than I am right now.

We are exploring

on the very fringes

of what human beings

are capable of.



We're starting to talk

about going back to the moon

or even going to Mars.

And so I remember distinctly

looking up at the moon sometimes

and just thinking, "Wow.

Humans are gonna step foot

back on the moon,

and maybe that could be me."



-Station Huntsville

on space-to-ground 3

for David and ISS Experience.

-Video 3.

-Yeah. So we just need you

to move the "Z" cam

about 1.5 feet

towards the forward side

to center it up in the hatch.

And that's great.

We like that view.

-Before being an astronaut,

I was working as

a family physician

up in the Arctic, in Canada,

a little community.

So, I learned there the art

of being self-reliant

and having a strong bond

with your team.

The space station, of course,

is this giant, international,

orbiting laboratory,

with hundreds of experiments

being conducted

at any given time.

But mostly it's biological

and medical studies.

The reason why is that being in

space is just bad for your body.

The problems

that affect astronauts...

They all are resemblance

to real disease back on Earth,

except here, they develop very

quickly in healthy individuals.

So we're like the perfect guinea

pigs for medical research.

-Okay.

I might just watch it

for a few more sweeps here.

I think this is good to go.

I really like it, actually.

-And with everything

that we are learning

about the medical effects

of living in space,

that will help us

be more confident

to send people even further

than the space station,

back to the moon

and eventually to Mars.

-Our third and final node.

The last one was really great.

I was really excited

to see that one.

-Happy P.I., happy crew.

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-Up until yesterday,

there were only three of us

on board.

Then, yesterday, three new

crew members arrived...

Our good friends Nick,

Christina, and Aleksey.





-Christina Koch of NASA,

Nick Hague of NASA,

and of course Soyuz Commander

Aleksey Ovchinin,

warm greeting

by Expedition 59 crewmates.

-[ Speaks indistinctly ]

Welcome to the U.S. segment.

It's a little room here.

-Oh, my God!



-Cold drinks?

Are you ready for a cold drink,

or do you want to...

-I don't even know

what I'm ready for.

I'm definitely

not, like, dire need.



-Before I became an astronaut,

I worked in the Arctic

and the Antarctic.

I was running

science experiments

and doing maintenance upgrades

for scientists and researchers

that weren't able to be there.



My sort of bedroom on station,

what we call our crew quarters,

is actually

tucked into the ceiling.

So, you know, to get into it,

I would go like this

and then, you know,

go up into the ceiling,

into my crew quarters.

So that was obviously

very disorienting

my first couple days,

when I would come out

of my crew quarters

and have to figure out

which way I was pointing

and which way my feet should go

and whatnot.

-The net

is in front of the microscope,

so we don't want to touch

that rack.

CEVIS is on motion isolators,

vibration isolators.

So we don't want to grab that,

which is...

-They're so perfect.

- super tempting. They are.

And you want to keep

your legs together.

And if you happen

to kick something,

I will say that turn around

and look at what you kicked,

'cause it's probably important.

- Okay.

-Make sure

it's not floating away.

-Yes. And the sooner you can

remap everything to be 3-D,

the quicker you'll be able

to move through here.

When you first arrive,

you're dependent on the crew

that has been there before you

for pretty much everything.

You're learning

how to do everything

for the first time again...

How to eat, how to sleep,

how to call home...

All those really important

things.

- gond I will tell you this.

If your feet are stable,

the rest of you is stable.



-Good evening, Exhibition 59.

Y'all rest up tonight.

And that's all I have.

Anything for us?

- Nope.

Just thanks for a great day.

[ Folk music plays on speakers ]

-Love yourself,

and don't give it

And when you...

-Got some apples, David,

if you want one.

A lot of ways,

it's like camping here.

You don't have a table

to put your stuff down on

when you're eating in the woods.

You want me to toss you one?

- Yeah.

-Of course we have to have

duct tape on the table.

We accept that all of our food

has been attached to gray tape

at some point.

Here. I'll break it down.

You can just put it

on your mouth all at once.

Ready?

You think you can grab it?

You want me to... Here.

I'll cut it smaller for you.

Are you sure? It's kind of big.

-My race here

against the clock. About 56%.

- Okay, ready?

- I'm ready.

- You got it. Ah!

- Oh!

[ Laughing ]

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-Right now, space station,

we're camping in our backyard,

testing our technologies

for survival in space.

And when we're happy

that our camping equipment

works well in the backyard

of our own home,

then we can leave Earth orbit

and go deeper into space.

If we move to the moon,

well, that's like camping

on a little mountain

an hour's drive away.

But our Everest,

our big ambition, is Mars.

-Station Huntsville

on space-to-ground 2

for Christina and Veggie.

We just wanted to give you guys

a heads up that historically,

the plants have needed water

approximately every three days.

So if someone can check on them

about that often,

and then that should keep them

healthy and happy

and eventually ready

for you to munch on them.



[ Indistinct radio chatter ]

-So, we are learning how

to grow vegetables and plants

on a space station.

And this is not only good

for the human psyche,

like, allowing us

to actually see greenery

and have a salad with dinner,

but it's really important

for long-duration space flight.

Plants are vital

to maintaining our atmosphere

and to maintaining certain

nutrients in the human body.



-Route the cable

behind the FOP unit.

It will be connected

at the upper-left.

[ Beep ]

-On orbit, water is a really

big deal for us,

so we try to recycle

as much as we can.

I'm doing part

of a power cable install.

Even simple tasks

like installing

a new power cable up here

can be pretty complicated.

Cable has a mind of its own.



-Whoo!

- Aw, yes!

- Yes! Yes! I got it!

-Touchdown!

-[ Laughs ]

-When astronauts first started

flying long-duration missions,

astronauts were losing

the same amount

of bone density in a month

that an osteoporotic 80-year-old

woman was losing in a year.

We talk about

the International Space Station

as a proving ground for future

deep-space exploration.

Now, imagine if we had skipped

this proving ground,

and we sent people to Mars,

and then we discovered it and we

couldn't fight against it.

We had to come up with

a countermeasure.



-It's really important

to exercise

on board the space station.

If you're not careful,

you will waste your muscles

and your bones away.

In my case,

I have young children.

I hope

that I can come back to Earth

and be able to carry them

on my shoulders still.

-Good evening, Expedition 59.

Great work today.

You had a very busy day.

And it's a great job

across the board.

[ Telephone ringing ]

-Okay.

[ Laughs ]

[ Dramatic music plays ]



[ Mid-tempo music plays ]



- Good.

- Good?



-[ Speaks indistinctly ]

-50 years ago,

there was a group of women

with the same talents and the

same passion that I have.

Now known as the Mercury 13,

they were the first group

of women

who underwent the selection

process to become astronauts.

Jerrie Cobb was one of them.

I feel a very kindred spirit

with her.

-Max, would you send down

my chute?

-Jerrie,

when did you start lobbying

to get women

into the space program?

Or was it always

a part of NASA's idea?

-I think it's always been

a part of their thinking

that eventually

we will put women into space.

NASA's attitude was that

there's just no hurry about it.

-Why do you think, then,

with you available,

passing all of the tests

right and left and very quickly,

that they didn't make an effort

to get you up sooner

than you may go?

-Well, I wish I knew.

[ Chuckles ] I wish I knew.

There's no legitimate reasons.

There's no reasons at all

why we haven't used

women astronauts.

-Maybe that says something

about the state of thinking

about women

in the United States.

-By 1960,

she had 7,000 flight hours

and held three

world aviation records.

She was the best in the world.

Not the female best.

She was simply the best.

However, that's where her deep

passion for space exploration

met a barrier,

because she and the other women

were excluded

from being considered

as astronauts.



This is where I was born to be.

I never considered

and would never consider

a different line of work.

At the same time,

I am keenly aware now

how lucky I am to have had

the opportunities I had

when I had them,

because Jerry was also born

to be here.



-You can leave the lights off.

We'll just compensate

by changing the exposure

on the camera.

It shouldn't take

but a minute...

Actually, about three minutes.

-Space is an absolutely

unforgiving environment.

It is not built

for humans to live in.

Yet we do.

[ Indistinct radio chatter ]

-No response required.

We just wanted

to let you know...

-I prepared

for this space flight

by training

to be an army officer.

I spent 15 months in combat

flying Kiowa Warrior

helicopters.

And moving on to step 14

for the measurement.



[ Indistinct radio chatter ]



-15 months in Iraq

will teach you

how to work in a team

whose lives are in your hands.



It teaches you

how to not get complacent.



It teaches you

how to operate in an environment

where you're there for so long

that you have to be able

to relax.

But there always has to be part

of you that's ready to surge.



You can't work so hard

that you're exhausted

at the end of the day

and you have nothing left

to give.

Because at any moment,

in Iraq, flying in a helicopter,

and here on

the International Space Station,

we can get a single alarm,

and suddenly,

we're not watching a movie

on a Friday night with our crew.

We're actually

getting in our vehicle

and flying back to Earth.



-That's the surface that I put

the surface...

-Yeah.



[ Alarm beeping ]

[ Suspenseful music plays ]



-That was right when I hit the

close button on the door system.

-I'm looking, smelling to see

if there's any smoke.

I know that the rest of the team

is rallying

to make sure that we know

what's going on,

that everyone's okay.

-Are you getting anything?

on the racked power switch.

- Any CSACP reading?

- Five seconds.

-The most dangerous thing,

of course,

would be a fire on board.

You can't go outside.

You got to fight the fire

while it's inside.

-The motor is there.

we're still in 2.1.

We went through...

-Still zero, Anne.

-We did have a crew member

using T2 at the time,

and the T2 had just ramped up

from 6 miles an hour

to 10 miles an hour,

and we got the alarm.

-Just to see that surge

of all that training

was just super reassuring.



-Okay, guys.

We're gonna step out.

Don't have too much fun.

- Oh, wait.

- Let's do our picture.

-Anne and David

and Christina and I...

We had never done a spacewalk.

shirts down.

All we had was the training

we brought with us

on the ground.

[ Dramatic music plays ]



- hooked to the fourth

extension of the handrail.

You can release me

from the airlock.

[ Indistinct radio chatter ]



- Greetings.

- Greetings.

-Doing a spacewalk

for an astronaut...

That's one of the big highlights

of any astronaut's career.



After all these years

of training,

you kind of finally become

yourself,

a little satellite

of the planet,

in your own autonomous,

kind of human-shaped spacecraft,

thanks to our trusty spacesuits,

It's got everything

to keep you alive

in a deadly vacuum of space.

[ Indistinct radio chatter ]

-We're down to the bottom.

-Half an inch is inside,

and half an inch in depth.

-So, you're gonna head

to the... worksite

and be up the airlock.

So you're gonna go past

the high-pressure gas tanks

beneath the...



[ Indistinct radio chatter ]



-Okay. Copy that, Anne.

-I kind of had a moment

of a pause during the spacewalk.

And I turned, and I looked out

into the rest

of our solar system.

And the moon seemed so far away,

even from the space station.

Yeah.



-And the rest

of the solar system was just...

It was enormous.

And here I am,

this little, tiny human,

floating on the outside

of the space station, holding on

and just understanding

the vastness of it.

-On the UIA, EMU 1 and 2

oxygen valves open.



Okay. And both of you

can switch power to SCU.

Expect a warning tone.



Switch power, EV-1 and 2, to on

on the UIA.

- airlock.

-Okay.

That should be your last task.

Maybe a photo opportunity

in here.

-Sorry.

- test.

-Yes! Pretend it's normal!

[ Laughter ]

-[ Speaks indistinctly ]

-The first time that I told my

mom I wanted to be an astronaut,

I was 3 years old.

And I remember my mom telling me

from a young age

when I was feeling discouraged,

probably high school-ish age...

and...

I was sharing with her

some doubts

that people had shared with me

about...

this career path that I wanted.

And she asked me, and she said,

"Well, do they work for NASA?"

And I said, "Well, what are you

talking about? No.

They're, ike, kids

aty high school, teaers."

And she said, "Well,

if they don't work for NASA,

I guess their opinion

doesn't matter, does it?"

And her point was

that I needed to keep going

until the people that actually

had that decision told me no.

And so I did.

-I can hear you guys

having so much fun out there.

I know you did a great job.

We're real proud of you.

-On the space station,

it's a very known environment.

We put it there. We built it.

When you go to the moon,

you're back to an exploration,

to the unknown.

You know, I often get asked,

"Why are we going back

to the moon?"

Why Anne McClain

wants to go to the mn

is because I think

that we can answer

some really exciting questions

about the origins

of life on Earth.

As a society, we're always

looking around the next corner

and saying, "What's out there?"

And I want to be

a part of a society

that always asks

those questions.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]





-I have some numbers for you

guys throughout that procedure.

I have saved them.

-Copy that, Christina.

Thank you for doing that.

We have some ground

commanding to complete

prior to your next

physical activity.

If you'd like,

we can give you a call

when we're ready

for that activity.

-Good morning.

And go ahead.

-We have had the chance

to learn from a previous crew

and have passed the baton

to the next crew.

This is a wheel that turns.

Crews pass the baton

to each other,

keeping this amazing outpost

of humanity functional

and productive and beautiful.



-All the way up there is...





-Already been six months

on board ISS.

In a few weeks,

I'm leaving back to Earth.

[ Down-tempo music plays ]

We hear these stories

from previous crew members

about how gravity

is not your friend

when you haven't been

in her presence for a long time.

So, we're gonna go back

in our little Soyuz.

Imagine this is

the curve of the Earth

and this is the curve

of our orbit.

They're exactly matched.

That's how we're falling around

the world constantly.

If we slow down

just a little bit,

a few percent

of our total speed,

that's just enough

that the curve of our orbit

will converge

towards the curve of the Earth.

And we slowly come down and down

until our spacecraft

hits the atmosphere.

It will just inflame

the capsule,

and we'll turn into

a giant sh**ting star.

Going back to Earth,

it's a bit scary, actually.



-[ Laughs ]

-Got a whole nother thing

of shrimp.

-You can put maybe a...

- Maybe a little lemon.

- How about a Craisin on top?

Give it a little sweet

at the end of that.

- Oh!

- Mint Life Saver.

-Whoa. A mint Life Saver.

[ Laughs ]

[ Music plays on stereo ]

-A Craisin... there might be

something there.

-I'm all for it.

Kind of like Brie and...

-I just tried

to soak up the moment

and remember these faces.

Alright.

Being able to pass each

other our favorite foods

across the table

without even having to ask...

You know,

that same group of people

won't ever be around that table

again.

-Stacked real high, though.

It's gonna be tough

to, like, do a trick.

-I'm just gonna...

-[ Speaks indistinctly ]

That is actually...

-I'm gonna hold the shrimp

and take the olive off.

-There's no way that goes...

[ Both laugh ]

-Watch the shirt.

Precious few.

-It's a rare shirt.

-Oh! You got it.

Round 2. [ Laughs ]

We really are like fish

in an aquarium.

[ Laughter ]

[ Dramatic music plays ]



-We wish you safe travels

and look forward

to seeing you in the future.



-When a crew leaves,

you're not just saying goodbye

to those people.

You're saying goodbye

to your group dynamic.



You're saying goodbye

to all of the memories

that you shared together

that are so hard

to explain to other people.



- [ Laughs ] To humans.

- Spectacular humans.

-We said goodbye to Anne

and David and Oleg,

our crewmates

from Expedition 59.

One of my favorite moments

in the departure

was literally right before

the hatch was closing

and we were hugging.

And so we're having,

you know, "Love you.

Happy landing. Soft landing.

See you on Earth."

-And then my crewmate Anne

takes a moment to yell at me,

"Oh, by the way,

I left you some almond butter."

- He's been on...

- [ Speaks indistinctly ]

- Congratulations, Aleksey...

- We're not hugging.

- on taking command of the

International Space Station.

-Bring it on in.

-It just reminds you that even

though we do these things

that are grandiose,

it's all done by people.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-One big flip. Six of us.

1...

-Ohh!

-Gonna break something.

That's not a memento.

[ Laughter ]

-Like he's trying to escape.



-So, during my mission,

I broke the record

for the longest continuous time

spent in space by a woman.

But I happened to be in the

right place and the right time.

And that makes me grateful

for those that paved the way

for that to be an option.

My biggest hope, for the record,

is that it is broken

as soon as possible,

because that means

we are continuing

to push the boundaries.



In any given week,

my eyes see the same things,

the same colors.

Same for smells.

Same for the things we taste.

Same for the things we touch.

There aren't many differences to

sort of pin those memories on.

-Hey, Christina, please

stand by on space-to-ground 2.

I'll be with you

in just a minute.



-Living in space is not easy.

We've had some Americans

that have lived up here

for a long time,

but we have not had anybody go

for more than a year.

We think that missions to Mars

and the round trip

on the short end will be

somewhere 2, 2 1/2 years.

Those people

are not going to return to Earth

as the same people that left.

-The process

of welcoming a new crew

is really one of the milestones

of the life cycle

of a crew member

on board the space station.

I in particular really enjoyed

sort of setting up their rooms

so that they could

actually come into a space,

see photos of their families,

and have it feel

truly theirs immediately.

[ Dramatic music plays ]



When Jessica Meir arrived

to the space station,

I was so very excited

to see her.

-Hello!

-I joke that until I saw Jessica

arrive to space station,

I actually had forgot

that I was floating.

-Welcome, welcome, welcome.

-You look good.

-[ Squeals ]

- Good job!

- Welcome!

-So seeing her giddy to be there

and so excited

by all the little things

really reminded me that I was

in a unique environment.

-Welcome! Welcome!

[ Squeals, laughs ]

-I think Jessica and I share

a special bond,

because we went through so much

of our training together.

We spent time together

on the weekends.

We loved to do the same things.

I actually felt very alone

when I first got to space

and she wasn't there.

She is my best friend.

-And here's the last sample,

if you'd like to take a look.

-Jessica, NX Delta 1,

location empty.

-Just burn stuff.

-We are all checked out

and ready to go

on that camera you just set up.

Astronaut log, Jessica Meir.

-As long as you're not, like,

right above the camera

looking down

or something like that.

- Okay.

-And then the bias towards,

you know, having a camera,

like, at eye level,

but u can be upside wn,

you cabe sideways.

-Right.

Okay, thanks. Thank you.

- Bye!

[ Soft music plays ]



-After settling in a little bit,

I was very anxious

to get to the cupola.

We happened to be passing over

the Himalayas in my first view.

And seeing those mountain peaks

and the gradations

of the white snow

and all of the mountains

and valleys,

it was a breathtaking sight.

And the Himalayas are

of course quite special to me,

since before I was an astronaut,

I was studying

the bar-headed goose,

the species that migrate

over the Himalayas.

So there I was, my very first

moment on the space station,

looking out through the windows

of the cupola

and thinking about my geese

looking down at them.





-When you become

the senior crew member,

you realize that there's nobody

to turn around to

and ask a question to.

People are gonna be asking you

those questions.

And you really have to step up

and recognize

that sometimes

you might not know every answer,

but you can definitely rely on

your experience

to be the best person

to answer that question.

Alright. You guys good

to start the USOS part?

- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Need a break or anything?

-That sounds good.

-So...

when you're new here,

there's so much going on

that I made these little, like,

cheat sheets

for Amer stuff so that

before you go to bed at night,

you can just, like, have

something to look at real quick

so that you know

when you go to bed

that if there's an alarm

overnight,

you've just refreshed

on what to do.

It's the quick and dirty.

-Okay.

- Yep.

- Just like the training ones,

only in perfect condition.

-Yeah. Exactly.

They've got the weird

emergency switch

where emergency

is actually clockwise.

-Yep.

[ Dramatic music plays ]

-Good morning, and welcome

to Mission Control Houston

and NASA's coverage

of today's historic spacewalk

from the

International Space Station.

Astronauts Christina Koch

and Jessica Meir

have spent the past week getting

ready for this spacewalk,

which will be the first

to be conducted by two women.

And prep is proceeding

according to schedule so far.

They are already suited up

inside the Quest Airlock.

And as you can see now,

we are joined

by astronaut Anne McClain,

who is the most recent person on

Earth to have done a spacewalk.

So we appreciate you coming

to talk with us, Anne.

-It's great to be here

this morning.

-I had heard a lot

of different stories

about coming out of the hatch

the first time,

but I of course didn't know

how I was gonna feel.

It actually does feel

different looking at Earth

just through your helmet visor

versus looking out

of the window.

The colors are even more vibrant

and I think, also,

just mentally realizing that,

you know, there is nothing

between the vacuum of space

except for this spacesuit

and your visor.



-You're translating port

to bay 12,

headed nadir of the FHRC.

-The temperature can swing

outside the space station,

depending if you're in the sun

or the shade,

a total of about 400 degrees.

And so a big part

of that life-support system

is t c cooling.



It is very fatiguing.

It's physically

and mentally taxing.

It can be

the metabolic equivalent

of running a marathon.

So they're getting toward the

20th mile of a marathon here.

But one of the things that

they're trained to do very well

is to hone in more mentally

when they're physically tired.

-You can drive all four bolts

to torque

with a minimum

of three additional turns.

Any order.

-Participating in the first

all-woman spacewalk

with Jessica was definitely

the highlight of my career

and maybe even my life

to this day.

I remember a moment where

we caught each other's eye.

At that point,

we knew we had done it.

We were two women

outside the airlock,

in the vacuum of space,

in our spacesuits.

And that would never change,

no matter what.





-Christina and Jessica,

incredible work today.

Welcome home.

We're glad to have you back,

and we're so proud

to be up here with you.

With that, under DCM,

if you would,

please take your O2 actuator

to press.



-Thank you.

- A pretty good pass up here.

- Perfect.

-I got something the other day,

but there were a couple other

spots that I wanted to look at.

-Awesome.

It's really nice

that we have these great passes

over the Amazon on the weekend

so we can actually get in here

and get some pretty...

- Oh, wow.

- I know.

I love seeing

the agricultural lands

and how they're centered

around rivers and stuff.

It just never ceases

to amaze me.

-I am very honored to feel like

I was part of

something historic,

given the first all-women

spacewalk.

I have actually been

pretty overwhelmed by that,

to see how much people

have paid attention to it,

how much

it has resonated and meant

to people

of all different backgrounds,

of all different ages.

The closer that we get

to making space more accessible

e everybody,

the closer we get to being

a truly spacefaring species.



[ Dramatic music plays ]



-Station Houston on 2-4.

Jessica or Drew?

I just wanted to let you know

that we are ready for you...

-Time to wash the hair.

I'm going to apply

a little bit of shampoo

and work that through.

-So, it's Expedition 62 now.

It's just Drew Morgan,

OlOleg Skripochka, and myself.

Christina Koch

and Luca Parmitano

and Sasha Skvortsov

left just last week.

So a pretty big change for us

up here,

going from six people to three.

-Hey, Drew.

-Bridging that gap

from the Apollo program,

which is now 50 years behind us,

to the Artemis program,

NASA's new program

to return to the surface

of the moon,

is the ISS.

Because the ISS has taught us

about international partnership,

and it has taught us

how to live and work in space

for a continuous,

long period of time.

-It's a team effort up here.

-Here's an opportunity

to go to the moon...

and understand now

what we didn't know

hundreds of years ago

about "Hey, we are big enough

to have an impact

on an entire planet

by the things we do."

And they're visible from space.

We can see evidence

of urbanization

and glacial retreat.

We owe it to our moon

and to Mars

to minimize the impact

that we have

when we go there.

-One of the photographs

that really has played

a big role in my life

is that iconic

"Earthrise" photo.

That was captured

the very first time

looking back at our planet

with human eyes.

It really transformed

how human beings felt

about our own planet,

about themselves,

their significance

in the solar system.

And it's that Apollo image

that really was pivotal

in creating

the environmental movement.

And this time, with Artemis,

I think it will be

an even stronger impact

on that inspirational component,

because we'll be representing

a much more diverse population

coming from Earth.

-Hey, Jessica.

We had to reconfigure

some of your camera

routing in the cupola.

Thank you very much.

-I'm not really looking

forward to going home right now.

[ Soft music plays ]

And that is interesting

in a whole new way now,

given what is going on

back on Earth.

Since we have been up here

on the space station,

we have had this terrible

outbreak of COVID-19.



We're not the first humans

to see something

of great magnitude

while people were removed

from Earth up here

on the space station.

Frank Culbertson was up here

when the 9/11 attacks

took place.

Sergei Krikalev,

a Russian cosmonaut,

was up here in 1991,

and there was the collapse

of the Soviet Union.

But this one seems

ev the most extreme.

The COVID-19 outbreak

is something

that has swept across

the entire planet

and is really affecting

every other human

but the three of us up here.

with you on three.

-It's been a good mission,

a successful mission.

10 EVAs conducted.

Got to do robotics support,

captured visiting vehicles.

But I found

that I missed my family

more than I thought I would.

I have four kids at home.

I missed an entire school year

of their lives.

I'd say I'm ready to go.

Nine months is l lg g time.



-1,001.

This will be

r r trtronaut log number three.

This is gonna be

my last log experience.

I'm worried that once

I get back down to the ground

that it's going

to start seeming like a dream,

like it never actually happene



-Great job, guys.

Good luck on the trip back home.

-Okay. It's stardate 107.

And it'separtuture day.



-Expedition 62 departing

[ Bellininging ]

There's so mh h going on

just in terms of your body

dealing with returning

to gvivity again

and the thrill, really,

of the ride down.

-All three of tonight's

departing crew members

here in e framame.

And the hatch n now closed

on the Soyuz.



-It's a ve i interesting time

right now in hanan spaceflight.

We areuiuiing nenew vehicles

in the U..

Thate can n launch aga

from Amecacan soil

withpapaceX and Boeing.

Hope t that we have

a spectaculasusuccess rate

with our new

coerercial spacecraft,

and I hope

that we do so internationally.

No one count o on their own

can accomplish something

truly sptatacula

likeetettingllll t way to Mars,

icich ththinmakekes it

all the rerexcitining.

Becacae juju likikhere at

the Internatioiol Space Statatn,

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and imimpaful mission

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-And that was s good

voice check, loud and clear,

so we are e ady to begin

the welcoming ceremony.

[ Applause ]

-And there they are.

First across the hatch,

Mike Hopkins.

Today begins the first

full-duration science mission

of NASA's

Commercial Crew Program.

And here's Victor Glover.

-As a test pilot flying

the first operational mission

of the Crew Dragon

was literally the dream mission.

This is an important step

in our journey to the moon

and eventually on to Mars.

-And recording has now started.

-Victor Glover, astronaut log,

in the Columbus module,

on GMT 3:59,

Christmas Eve, 2020.



Apollo happened

in the '60s and '70s.

And so the world was in

a very interesting place...

The Civil Rights Movement,

Vietnam.

So Apollo happened

while all of those real-life

things were happening.

And it was uplifting to a lot

of people all around the world,

but it also missed

a lot of people.

-Hey, Mike, we are a go

with your plan

to take off some of those ties,

and we'd just appreciate

pictures when you're done.

-I think that that is another

strength of the Artemis program,

is that

because it's happening today,

it has a greater chance to bring

the world collectively together,

especially because that crew

could potentially look much more

like the rest of the planet.

-Okay, big picture,

our game plan is for you

to do the APFR relocate

and the O.I. lift relocate,

as well.



-That's a good view.

On two.

-This space station...

It has given us a process

to test out technology,

to test out spacesuits,

to test out

laboratory facilities,

manufacturing capabilities.

But it haslso gin us place

to lea to exist in space.

And so that process is more

important than an end state.

I think the biggest thing

I learned

on the International

Space Station

during my time in space

is that you have to listen

to space

and let it teach you.

-The most significant

realization

I had on this mission

is that if I had been born

50 years ago,

I would have never had

this opportunity.

And I look back at the Earth,

and I wonder,

"Who do we exclude now?"

-The one thing that I hope

that I can convey

and share with people

is that we are all in this

together.

We need to live our lives

that way.

It's so easy to understand

when you're looking back

at the planet from above.

It just makes sense.

-Our beautiful, blue planet

in the middle of

the deadly vacuum of space,

with no new air, no new water.

It's all recycled.

When you see that, it's obvious

that this is our spaceship

for the whole of humanity.

-Together, we're exploring.

And to me,

that's an important reason

why we even have a space station

and a space program.

You know, if we're not moving

forward, we're moving backward.

And this is the moving-forward

part of what we do as humanity.

-5...

Core stage engine start.

3... 2... 1...

Boosters and ignition.

And liftoff of Artemis I.

We rise together,

back to the moon and beyond.

[ Dramatic music plays ]