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Tim Kopra

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“Two bucks that come to mind as a kid. I was really inspired by the right stuff. I mean, for the folks that were my age, we were watching men land on the moon. I mean, there is nothing more inspiring to a young person than watching these American heroes do something that was virtually impossible, right? I think the entire planet was inspired by this, right? And it was really started by seven people who did things that none of us thought were possible. And to me, that was just really inspiring. It was a starting point of a lifelong dream. And then this is somewhere between classic and cliche at this point. But Stephen Covey's seven habits of highly affected people. It's a classic, right? I mean, everybody should read that. And there's so many things in that book to aspire to. I mean, I need to go back. I have it on my list of things to do to go back and reread it because it's a big rock, right? I need to go back.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lots of conditions here, right? You said one book, and what I'm willing to share. You know, there are two books. I mean, it's really hard to narrow down to a book, right?”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is to make sure that we can do it quickly because time is risk. So I would caution all of us to include NASA that we focus on that risk. And I know that here at NASA, we talk about it a lot, and we should because we've had bad things happen before.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's really hard too, right? Because the environment in which you have is exactly what you have. Whatever you have is what you brought with you or what you make. And that's a level of complexity that cannot be overstated. It's really hard to make sure all that works out. We haven't really been outside of low Earth orbit for any length of time ever. We went to the moon, but that's not the same as going to Mars. And currently, it might take us six to nine months to get to Mars. That's a really long time. And in my mind, spending six to nine months going to Mars is wildly risky from the standpoint that time is risk, right? The longer you're in space, the more radiation you're exposed to. The more time you're in that transit to another planet, it's more time for things to break, for things to go wrong. And so I think the right answer for us to be really ambitious and go to Mars or even beyond someday.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wouldn't have killed the crew on Columbia, right? So I bring that up because it's an important lesson for everybody who's involved or that may be involved in human spaceflight to realize that it is really, really dangerous, right? To get outside of our gravity field requires lots of thrust through nozzles on highly explosive rockets in a very complex environment and hazardous environment. Once you get to space, in a lot of respects, you've crossed that biggest hurdle in terms of your life being in peril. But when you launch into space, you know your life is in peril. And these people will be in the exact same situation as we have been when we put non-stronauts or at least civilians that are not fully trained into that environment. So we just have to be very cognizant that it is not easy. And then once you get to space and say we have plans to go well beyond lower Earth orbit like to Mars, we know what?”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The thing about spaceflight is that it turns out that spaceflight, human spaceflight, is really hard, right? So I came to NASA as an astronaut in 2000. In 2003, we killed seven people on space shuttle Columbia. And we talk about that a lot here because it keeps us focused because the consequences of us doing things all the time nearly perfectly is that we lose our colleagues and our friends and our crewmates. That's a big deal, right? It's a huge deal. I was just at a meeting recently to look at approval of one of our spacecraft, one of the resupply vehicles going in. We had a senior manager talk about a meeting where they were supposed to review the foam that was coming off of the space shuttles at the time and how we didn't 100% listen to the people we should have because if we had, we would”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like you mentioned, they're able to land their first stage vertically, which is like a Buck Rogers thing, right? I mean, it's just amazing to see that kind of thing happen. And they're going to progress to having a vehicle that they put people on. And, you know, in the case of SpaceX, they're very closely connected to NASA and our contracts. And that's largely how they're funded. And then in the case of Blue Origin, which is Jeff Bezos' company, at this point in time, it's, I think probably 100% private, so a little bit different model, right? One that is largely government funded, one that is privately funded. In both cases, though, I mean, I think it's really important that we have people that have the kind of vision that's necessary to push things forward and to eventually get to a place where perhaps it's not just a government venture. It is something that can be done and your average person can do it. And I think that's a very admirable goal. And I look forward to getting closer and closer to that objective.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, you know, I respect visionaries because they help to chart a path that other people might have thought was impossible. And sometimes those visions are impossible initially, but that's where you start, right? You start with this big picture and you work towards it. And so I respect people like Jay Bezos and Elon Musk with their vision of what we can do. And they have accomplished a lot, right? In the case of SpaceX, we work with them closely.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think you need to focus on the hard task at hand, but I think my point is that you're building a set of skills over time that will contribute to whatever your goal is. And most things that are worth doing are really hard and require a lot of preparation.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're really important, right? So a lot of these fundamental subjects like math, you may never be a mathematician, but it'll teach you how to think.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With us, and I realized that maybe that could be something I would do someday. I would go to the library and I would find out what former West Pointers had done who had become astronauts, what their history was. I read their biographies, what their steps were, and not that you can replicate that exactly, but you can get a feel by trying to model someone else's behavior and their steps to help you along with your goal. And at the end of the day, it won't match exactly. And it may not match at all, but man, it is a great starting place to be able to model. And then thirdly, I think probably the most important part are a preparation for your goal. And it usually requires a lot of hard work. So for young people in school, for example, you know, when you're an eighth grader having to study algebra and it may not feel like it's worthwhile, for me, things like math and science in particular are like tools in a toolkit. And you have no idea when you might need it again, but.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And goal becoming an astronaut that was sort of reinforced when I was at West Point and was able to listen to some form of Apollo astronaut speak to us, which told me, hey, look, they could do it, then maybe I could do it. And so having that big goal was really powerful. And what was also encouraging from this was to recognize that in order to accomplish those big goals, you need to figure out a very methodical plan. And every time one of those smaller goals that we contribute to the big goal worked out, then it was just one more motivator to keep on working harder. And I thought for me, that was very important. The second thing I would say that also relates to that, and it was true for me specifically, is that it's possible to model your behavior off of someone else's accomplishments. And so even when I was a young cadet at West Point after this sort of seminal moment when those Apollo astronauts who spoke,”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A great question. Everybody's different, right? So, you know, my advice may not be applicable to everybody, but I can tell you what has been good for me. Things have worked out in a way that I never could have anticipated. And I feel really blessed as a consequence. But for me, I think it's really important to have big goals. And sometimes goals that seem completely impossible or maybe even ridiculous, like becoming an astronaut because that's where it starts, right? I mean, you have to have the goal in order to make it work out. I mean, if you don't have the goal to start with, then you're certainly not going to accomplish it. But there's something about really big goals that is empowering that smaller, lesser goals are not. They provide this sort of motivation, this drive that really doesn't come, at least to me or for me out of smaller goals. And what happened from my experience was this crazy design.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is mind blowing. And what's also mind boggling is that when we're inside space station, it feels so normal and so comfortable and so safe, but it's not, right? We're living in a vacuum and we're living in an environment that is completely man-made. The temperature that we have, we have very complex systems to remove the heat and disperse that heat outside of our living volume. We scrub the carbon dioxide that we're expelling all the time. We're replacing the oxygen that we breathe and we breathe a lot. It's just amazing what we're able to do in space. And we're going to continue to do these kinds of things with more complex vehicles in the future.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I mean, it's really truly unbelievable what we've done. I think that it's really hard to compare any human accomplishment with what we've done in space with the International Space Station.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Effort. And I don't think the average American in particular appreciates what we've done in space in an international way. I think it's just amazing, right? The first time I was on Space Shuttle Discovery and we're undocking and pulling away, looking at this amazing spaceship that is, I mean, it's almost hard to get your head around how big it is, how complex it is. And it reminded me of the times that I'd spent in Italy and Germany and Canada, Japan preparing for this mission in an earlier role preparing the hardware for spaceflight. And here it is in space, all assembled and working so effectively. I mean, it's pretty amazing, right? It's amazing from a technical standpoint. And it's also amazing from the standpoint that it was done in a very international way. It's a real testament to what we all can do when we put our minds together and have a common goal. And that may sound a little bit cliche.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is better because after six months taking pictures of our planet and just really studying it because it's just absolutely so beautiful, I just have this really deep appreciation for what we have because it's all we have. When you look out beyond Earth and you see that black of space, you realize that we are really, really alone. Everything else is really far away. Like Mars, you can see the movie The Martian. little spaceship goes out there, comes back. It's not like that. It's really far away. And only closest thing we have is the moon. Even that's a few days away. But everything else is really far away. And so that is just really striking how beautiful our planet is and how alone we are from everything else, especially from the second time that I flew because of how mature the space station is from the standpoint of our systems and processes and people. It is a tremendous team.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Transformation so that you could move in any orientation and it felt completely normal. That's bizarre, right? That we can accomplish and adapt to that environment. And then conversely, coming back home, it was really, really tough the first time. The second time is still very uncomfortable, but not as harsh as the first time. The first time I landed, it was like a combination of the flu and a hangover for like two days. It was really terrible. And everybody's different. But that was definitely my experience. After a few days, you feel pretty good and comfortable again. And really within a few weeks, you're at the same baseline as you were before going off into space. So that first learning experience, I think, was just how adaptable we are as humans. And then the second experience, you know, it's hard to really bring it down to one. I think it's really two things, really, for the second mission. One is, I mean, two months sounds like a long time, but six months.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the thing that was so surprising from the first mission, which was about two months, was how the human body and mind can adapt to its environment. I mean, it's kind of crazy that after a short period of time on space station, you're carrying things with your legs and you're moving with your hands, right? I mean, it's just really bizarre. I remember almost distinctly when it got to the point where you could move around on space station and it felt normal. I mean, for a while, you're just trying to feel comfortable. But then after maybe a couple of weeks, you'd move around to different orientations because you can use all the surfaces, right? It's a volume as opposed to the 2D world that we have here on Earth. But it would take like maybe a potato for you to figure out exactly how you're oriented and how everything was situated around you. But there was a point in time when something is happening in your head, this matrix.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Land. And so all that was very, very benign. About 600 feet before landing, the pilot on the flight deck of the space shuttle lowers the landing gear. You squeak it on. You land, and then a crew comes and helps you off. But radically different experience than a Soyuz.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, compared to the space shuttle, which was a very gentlemanly way to come back in from space, it's a pretty stark difference. The space shuttle, it landed like an airplane. And so the maximum G's in a space shuttle was around 1.6. You know, one difference is that you're sitting up. And so it's a little bit different in that respect, but it's a very smooth ride in comparison. It does a couple circles that manages the energy. And it's interesting the way the shuttle comes in because there is no engine or there was no engine on it. It's essentially a big glider. It's like a refrigerator with wings. And it's coming back in. And so in order to land exactly at County Space Center, or in our case, Edwards Air Force Base, you have to make sure that you get low enough at the exact right point. And they would do this by flying a circle, and the size of that circle would change based upon what your endpoint had to be in order to come in and”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You could definitely see as you're coming back into the atmosphere. I didn't actually spend a lot of time looking out the window because we're pretty focused on our job trying to get things done, but looking out the window, you can see the plasma burning past your ship. You know, when you see that ship after it lands, it's all burned up and it's burned up because when you go through the atmosphere, the air is moving so fast that it's a plasma. It's about 3,000 degrees. And if it wasn't for the way the ship was designed with its heat shield, we would just burn up coming in. And so you can see all that passing the window. And you can see the atmosphere as you get closer and closer towards our planet.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After that, just to continue the story, they take us to a tent. We get out of our spacesuit, put on a flight suit, and we get in a helicopter to fly to a place called Cotter Gun. But pretty amazing. We got in the helicopter, flew to our airplane, airplane back to Houston, Texas in about 25 hours after leaving space station, I'm walking off an airplane and greeting my family”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was the third guy to get out just because of how we were oriented inside the ship. And it's a little bit like a berth. So just like it was to get in, it's really hard to get out. And these guys are such pros. They've done it so many times. They're reaching in, trying to make sure that you're fully unbuckled, that your oxygen tube is disconnected, your com cable is disconnected, and they pull you out. And probably the first thing you notice is this super strong smell of the grass in the desert in Kazakhstan because you haven't been exposed to this smell or any smells besides the ones on station for half a year. And it's almost overwhelming how strong that smell is. And then the brightness of the sun, they put you in a seat. And I think all of us don't feel so great, right? Because just like our bodies have been so accommodated to zero gravity, we're really not accommodated to 1G. And it takes actually a couple days just to feel halfway.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Search and rescue crew that are in helicopters, and they see the descending spaceship, and we're talking to them to let them know that everything is going okay. And then the next big event is landing. Just a few seconds before landing, the seats cock up and they cock up so that you have a shock absorber that's in place. And when you do that, your face is maybe six inches away from the screen that you've been watching. So now this tight little compartment is even tighter. About 200 milliseconds before impact, they have these jet stiff fire and they call them soft landing jets, but there's really nothing soft about them. And then you hit the ground and you hit the ground so hard that I think most of us spend about 20 seconds doing this personal inventory to make sure that nothing is broken. It's unbelievable how hard you hit, but everything works out fine. And typically what happens is you hit and you bounce. And in our case, we bounce and we're hanging upside down and waiting for the search and rescue crew to come. And thankfully they only took about eight minutes to get there. And then they pull us out of our ship one by one.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're really thrown around like a ragdoll. I mean, it's almost hard to believe that you're shaking that much when it comes out. I mean, eventually it settles down. But it seems like an eternity, you're really being thrown around like a ragdoll. And so you're putting your faith in that seat liner that was made from plaster and a big tin bucket. But it works great, which is good. And we had a very experienced Soyuz commander in Yuri Malenchiko, and he was very adamant to make sure that as the G's increased early on that we tightened our seatbelts because you want to make sure that you're fully tightened down. And when you're in zero gravity, you might be floating out a little bit. So then once the shoot comes out, now we're in sort of this quiet. We're floating to the earth and we're watching the altimeter as we get closer and closer and we're starting to talk to the”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so it gets dynamic, it gets violent when the shoots come out. In fact, a friend of mine in the astronaut office said, I think he put it well. And that is that if you weren't completely strapped down in this seat liner and with all your limbs in your lap and things constrained, you would die. And I think you might be right because...”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But what it means is that it's just hard to breathe because you're trying to breathe against this huge force. And that's probably the biggest thing that you notice from a physiological standpoint. But it's non-trivial to be flying in that G environment, especially when your body's been used to no gravity, right? floating around to, I mean, getting hammered by five and a half G's almost”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I'm not entirely sure. Preston, it might have been on the order of 30 seconds. The difference from your jet experience is that the Gs are going through your chest. And so the blood's not getting pulled away from your head.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And your body reacts in very strange ways. Like, one of the things that happens is it's really hard to focus your eyes on one point. They're looking for a gravity field. And so they're always moving and you're trying to focus on these screens so that you can make sure that the right thing is happening. So in that respect, it's a very demanding environment.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The entire structure to include you, but it's a good sign to have those two things separate because there was at least one circumstance when that instrumentation compartment didn't fully separate. It had one bolt that held it on. And the way this ship is designed is that when it gets into the atmosphere and it has that drag, it flies in a certain way. Well, as soon as you have this big chunk of metal on the bottom, it doesn't fly that way anymore. And so in their case, they were swapping ends like every second, which is pretty horrible. And that lasted for a while until that bolt broke off and they were able to enter in a normal way. So when those two components of our little ship break away as planned, and that's a good thing. And so we can begin our ride back in. And the ride back in is pretty amazing because I think we maxed out with about 5.2 Gs. And that's a pretty heavy load.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Space Station depart away from us. You're pretty tired. You're trying to keep awake for about 45 minutes. And then things start to speed up a little bit. We burn the engine on our little spaceship on our Soyuz, and that helps us slow down. And when we slow down, we get lower in the atmosphere. And we get lower in the atmosphere. There's more atmosphere that makes us slow down. So it starts this chain of events that gets us to enter the atmosphere. And then another long wait, about 45 minutes. And this is where the ride really starts to become dynamic and violent, frankly. We separate the two components of our little spaceship that we don't need, the living compartment and the instrumentation compartment. And the way it separated is with explosive bolts. So those explosive bolts are essentially like two feet above your head. And they all go off in a sequence. And so you know when you have this separation. I mean, it is something that sort of vibrates through.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's perfectly fine. It's a little bit interesting that the things that surprised me were when things didn't happen, right? Because we did our simulations on the ground. And, you know, it's like all of our training, really. You're always practicing when things go wrong. And so it's always super busy and they want to make the most out of the time so they don't simulate the times and their delays. But in our case, you know, we're pretty tired because we had to sleep shift to come home at a certain time. You have to plan this just right because you have a space station going around the planet. You have your spaceship that's going to undock. It has to land on a very specific place in Kazakhstan. And so that means that departure time is predicated on all those different items as opposed to when we want to get up and go. So we got up in the middle of the night after a couple hours of sleep. And all of us are pretty tired. And so the first 45 minutes after you undock and you see.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, things don't float away. You don't have to use Velcro to put things down. You don't, yeah. So it's a lot of components of this daily life in 1G that you really start to appreciate over time. And you don't really dread the return trip because I think all of us have a pretty decent understanding of what it's like because you've talked to your friends who've done the same thing. And so you're ready for it in large measure. And I think most of us kind of like that stuff. I mean, we like the really interesting dynamic environments in which we can work. Some people ride roller coasters, some people don't. I would say that in our population, most of us probably like the roller coasters.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I wouldn't call it a dread at all, actually, because one aspect of that is that you know for a while, at least usually, that you're coming home on a specific date. And so you're ready, right? I mean, I spent 186 days in space this last time, and I could have stayed longer if that was the mission, but the mission was coming to a conclusion, you have family and friends back home. You know, there's that turkey sandwich and that diet coke waiting for you since you haven't had that in a while. There are a lot of things that make coming back to earth appealing.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. Yeah, it's open domain. Any pictures you'd like and any of the ones that I've taken belong to NASA and they're available for everyone.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So different just like with your experience of the Grand Canyon or ours looking out on the planet Earth is that the field of view, I mean, it's everything that you see, right? And the other component of that is just when you see things that are in 3D like you normally do, I think that's the component that makes it really challenging to try to capture in pictures. But I tell you what, to see the planet, when you have you're over cities or over huge bodies of water or in the daytime when you look out into space and your eyes can't see the stars, but all you see is this thick black of space. It's pretty awe-inspiring.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're exactly right, Preston. There are no pictures that do it justice. It is such a surreal experience to be outside on space station for so many reasons, right? I mean, one, you're in space, right? That's pretty strange. But for some things you might not think about, like when you walk around here on planet Earth, you just take for granted that you have sort of the security of always being attached onto the surface below you, right? Well, it's not like that, right? All you have is this little space station that you're connected to. And the way you're connected is with the tools that you use to connect to you. We have the tether reel that connects us straight back to the airlock, but that's not really a feeling of security that you're connected because it's really just a safety line. And so really it's up to you to have a hook connected onto a handrail that keeps you from floating away. But it's all you have. It's really the main thing that attaches you on to any sort of structure. And then looking out, the thing that I think is”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, absolutely. Yeah. You know, cities at night are absolutely beautiful. It depends on what city. Some cities are brighter than others. Some regions of the planet are brighter than others, but they're absolutely beautiful.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is pretty amazing. And you have to adjust what you have on your suit for that as well because when it's really bright outside, you put down this visor, you know, that gold looking visor that you see. And when it's dark outside, you have to make sure you pull the visor up and make sure that your lights are on. Because when it's dark outside, it is really dark. It can be a little bit disorienting if you don't have the right lighting and if you don't really keep your bearings about where you are.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But then as soon as you go out, you just start with whatever you've learned and everything turns out great. In our case, the very first thing that we do when we go on a spacewalk is take this tether reel. And it's like what you said. It's really the rope that connects us onto space station. It's kind of like a thick fishing line. And so we take that hook and we connect it outside on space station. And once both you and your buddy have those connected, now we're cleared to go to work because we're connected onto space station and exactly what we did.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Little volume that goes down to a vacuum and now we open up the hatch and as soon as you open up the hatch you're looking down on our planet and it's going past at 17,500 miles an hour, you know that your next step is going to go outside and do this. It's not dissimilar to jumping out of an airplane for anybody who's ever done that before, you know, like when you shuffle to the door and you get ready to jump out of that airplane and you're looking out the plane for a second and you're thinking why am I jumping out of an airplane, right? It's crazy.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whereas in space, there's none. So it's a very foreign environment. And our suit is pressurized to 4.3 psi. And what that means is that it's under pressure and it's a little bit more difficult to move than if it wasn't under pressure. And so all of the tools have to be designed so that we can work in this big, bulky, and really clumsy spacesuit. So we get configured with our tools. And then that person who had helped us out before puts us in this really skinny tube that is hauled the crew lock. And that's what we're going to get inside to exit into space. The guy who's helping us, Guy or Gal is helping us, closes the hatch that separates us from him. And now the two of us are inside this little airlock that has us, all of our tools that are on top of us, and all of the different boxes and things that we have to replace outside or maybe additional tools that we have in different boxes. And so then we reduce the pressure in the”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It all buttoned up, and there's a third person inside the airlock with us that helps us get all configured. And so once we're inside the spacesuit, we can breathe pure oxygen. And so we no longer have to worry about the nitrogen component. So at that point, they repressurize the airlock. They open the hatch. And now we're going through all the different checks that are required to get us outside. Once those checks are complete, that includes all the settings on the suit, putting on our tools. And the tools are not like anything you've really seen because they have to be compatible with working in a pressurized spacesuit. We work in an environment which is a vacuum, meaning there's no air, there's no air pressure, and it's for someone who's not a scientific”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have a whole lot of time to prepare, but I think both Scott and I felt very comfortable going outside because we were so well prepared from the previous training. And it's a long procedure. You know, in the movies, you see them throwing a spacesuit, go inside an airlock, close a hatch, deep press go outside, and it seems like it's basically like taking a walk outside in the park. But for us, it's a very methodical and very thoughtful and planned out procedure that has to be that way. You know, it's interesting that it's not too dissimilar to the things you have to do for scuba diving when you ascend. You have to scrub your body of the nitrogen. And so we have this procedure where we go inside our airlock, which is our door to space, and we close the hatch, we breathe oxygen, pure oxygen. And once we have that hatch closed, we can depressurize the airlock. And so that puts us in an environment so that we can get rid of this nitrogen. Then we get inside the space.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're very well prepared by the time we go out on a spacewalk. Sometimes they're different in terms of preparation. The first spacewalk I did, we trained for really over the better part of a year. And so it was very closely choreographed. And we knew exactly what our steps were. And sometimes you have to deviate from those steps, but it was very well coordinated. Nowadays, we really don't have that capability because we only react to the issues that we have on board space station and they may not coincide with the training flow that you have. And so you really have to be prepared from the standpoint of having a set of skills that you use in order to do your spacewalk. In our case, the first spacewalk that we did on Expedition 46, this most recent flight, we arrived on a Tuesday night on space station, Thursday night, we found out that there was a cart that was stuck out front on space station on the big trust element, which is like the backbone of space station. And then Monday morning we did the spacewalk.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My body's feeling are completely different. I probably had a similar sensation, not so much that I was falling, but just that everything was not right. And I didn't feel so hot. I took a shot of a medicine that helps us with that sort of thing. And then after an hour or so, went to bed and woke up the next day. It didn't really feel great the next day. But every day is a lot better. Work through that second day. The third day, we docked a space station. And because of how our mission was organized, that fourth morning, I woke up and did a spacewalk. So it wasn't a whole lot of time to really accommodate to being in zero gravity.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very similar in terms of the overall experience of launching into space, the separation of the boosters and that eight and a half minutes when everything starts to float. The thing that was different about the space shuttle was that it was a unique vehicle in that it launched as a rocket and then it was an orbiting spaceship and then it would land like an airplane. And so when it became that orbiting spaceship, we had to reconfigure the ship to make it suitable for that, setting up computers, putting away our seats, which was a very time consuming and a well-coordinated task. So after eight and a half minutes floating in space, coming out of my seat for the first time, which feels really, really strange. And I was feeling pretty good, but not great. And then I floated up to the flight deck, which has this huge set of windows that looks out into space. And all of a sudden I looked out the window, my gyro is completely spun because what was different was, you know, what my eyes.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know, the second mission was really interesting because I remembered my first mission and was concerned that I wouldn't feel so hot for that first day. But something that's really amazing about the human body and the human mind is that it accommodates to its environment. And so when I got on board Space Station, I was probably a little bit more clumsy than I had been on my previous mission initially. But I felt like it was the 59th day of being in space. I had been on space station for 58 days before. And this has felt like a continuation, which is pretty amazing, right? That even after several years, your body and your brain, it just resides. It has that memory of what it was like and it makes it that much easier. Now, it wasn't like that the first time when I launched a spatial endeavor.”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly It's a lower orbit. It's not the same orbit as the space station. We still need to burn an engine a couple of times to make our orbit higher so that we can intersect with space station”
2017-02-26 · We Study Billionaires · TIP 127 : Living In Space and What's Next w/ NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT