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Tim Kopra

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  1. “Not for a while. Yeah, you're exactly right. At that point, there's no more propulsion. And so it's really eight and a half minutes in order for us to get into 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

  2. “On our mission, we had this nuisance alarm and it was for the humidity level inside our capsule. We've had this problem before. But what it meant was that every several minutes, I had to go ahead and silence the alarm and make sure that it wasn't anything important and to make sure that the rest of the vehicle is working correctly. And so actually the launch went perfectly normal. The very last separation is pretty violent, actually. And you shake in your seat, but then as soon as you're done with that last separation of that final stage, everything is quiet and everything floats.”

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  3. “They separate from the rocket with pyrotechnic devices. And so you hear that and feel that separation. And each time one of the stages separates, You feel that piece of the rocket leave. And then after several minutes, there's a fairing or a shroud that covers up our little spaceship. And as soon as that separates now, we can look out our windows. And you're seeing that you're going into space. And by the time those shrouds come off, you can see the curvature of the earth. You can see this little thin veil of our atmosphere, the black of space. And there's not a whole lot of time to focus on that because one, the window is small and it's not in the best position to be looking out. But also you're trying to make sure that you're doing your job correctly and you're following things in a very specific way.”

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  4. “Little speaker. The speaker has some rumbling noises. You're looking at the clock and then you start your procedure. But this one's a little bit different in that it's not a speaker with a little bit of rumble. This is like, no kidding. There's rumble underneath you. And it is a really visceral experience because as soon as it starts to light, it's like this slow buildup of noise and a slow buildup of vibration. And pretty soon, the whole thing is shaking and you can feel that you're lifting off and you can feel that it's a little bit unsteady and that you're getting ready to leave the launch pad. And then little by little, the force of gravity, the G's on your body starts to increase and increase. And you're going through the checks just like you had done in the simulation. But this time it's for real and you're feeling that G build up. And it's a very visceral experience. You're vibrating. You're shaking. And after about two minutes, we have some strap-on boosters. It's considered the first stage of this rocket.”

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  5. “Wild. And so we spend some time just waiting for the launch after we've done all of our checks. We've done the pressure check on our suit. We've got all the systems set up. We've checked all the different menus and the data that's entered in that is set up for our launch. And we listened to some music for a while, actually, until get to the point where we're ready to launch. And so just maybe about 10 minutes before launch, the music goes away. We do our final checks. And then you're just sitting in the seat waiting for it to happen. Now, it's funny about this is that it feels a lot like the simulations we've done because it looks almost the same. The suit is basically the same, but this time it's like no kidding for real. And you know that this rocket is going to light below you and you're going to get thrown into space. So we're very focused on the task at this point, as you can imagine, you know, we're waiting those last several minutes until the engine lights. You know, in the simulation, when we do this, they have a”

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  6. “It's 100% Russian. In fact, our training in Russia is in Russian, our class is in Russian, our exams, which are a really big deal in Russia, are in Russian. And all of our simulations are in Russian too. So all the communication we have with our mission control is in Russian.”

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  7. “And then at that point, we closed the hatch. There's no going back because the hatch is closed and we're getting ready to go.”

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  8. “Yeah, that's it, which is pretty amazing, right? Usually it was a couple days, but we figured out how to do the entire orbit increase and the whole process that we can get to space station faster. So once I'm inside the sea, you have one of the Russian technicians who's helping you strap in. And you're trying to make sure that the seat is strapped down so hard that you really can't move. Because it's possible even on launch that if things weren't to work out and you had to separate from this rocket, it's going to be a very dynamic ride. And so you need to make sure that you're very secure inside the seat. And so once I'm in the seat, you're really trying to organize yourself because you have books that are your procedures that you're going to be using. You've got your kneeboard. You have your gloves that are down in little pockets in your legs that you'll end up putting once you get your suit completely configured. And then one by one, we get loaded into the vehicle. Then Tim Peak got in and strapped in. Yuri was in the center.”

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  9. “So, your knees are crammed up basically as far up as you can move them. And I'm pretty lucky because I didn't have a whole lot of knee or back pain. A lot of folks do. And you're in this position for a really long time. You get inside the spaceship maybe two and a half hours before launch. And nowadays it takes us six hours to get to the space station. We do four orbits around our planet, each one about an hour and a half. And so we get to space station after six hours. But that means that you're crammed inside the seat for a really long time. And that can be pretty uncomfortable.”

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  10. “You hit the ground, you hit so hard that you have to have something that completely distributes the load. And so you have the seat liner that's exactly conformal to your body. And along the lines of typical Russian design, the way that they make this seat liner, about a year and a half before flight, we get into this big 10 bathtub wearing long underwear. Somebody brings in this big plastic bucket of plaster. They pour it around you. It firms up. You hop out. This guy takes a putty knife and he carves off the hot spots. They put cloth on it and that's your seat liner. And that's what you're sitting inside this whole spaceship.”

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  11. “The Soyuz spacecraft. And in the right seat was Tim Peak. And since my job has lots of requirements going uphill in terms of my responsibilities, I'm basically thinking about all the initial steps I need to have done as we get strapped in and get ready to launch. And then once we get through the whole process of launching into space. So we get out to the rocket and we take some photos. We climb up a ladder and get in a very small elevator. It's barely enough for a few people and get to the very top of the rocket. And to get inside this spacecraft, it's very typical Russian design. And that is”

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  12. “Make sure that it stays tight when we do the pressure check. And it's funny that we do this behind this big glass window so that all of the press and our family and friends are watching this procedure where we get in the spacesuit and we sit down in a little seat that is our seat liner inside the Soyuz space capsule and they pressurize a suit and make sure that it's all going to be good. And then we have some words with our family through the glass since we're essentially in quarantine. And we march outside to the bus that then takes us to the launch pad. And as you can imagine, most of us are kind of quiet as we take that final bus ride to the rocket because it's a culmination of about two and a half years of very specific training for this launch. In my case, I was in the left seat of the Soyuz, which is essentially the co-pilot in this very small space vehicle. The center seat was Yuri Malenchico, who's a very experienced cosmonaut and also the commander of”

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  13. “By our friends and family and a Russian Orthodox priest blessed us and they're dressed in their full garb and the way we're blessed is with, looks like this big washcloth sponge looking thing and they throw water on us so that we're blessed. We walk downstairs and as we walk outside to get on the bus and take us to our suit fit, they're blasting this music that's been played, I guess, for the last couple of decades as part of their tradition. We get on the bus and we drive quite a ways because we launch out of Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is a huge area. It's much bigger than Kennedy Space Center. And after about a 45-minute ride, we get to the place where we put on our spacesuits. And this is a very important check because when we put the spacesuit on, we have to make sure that it holds pressure because it's one of the safety factors in launching into space. If we were to have some sort of breach in the vehicle in emergency, this spacesuit is going to save our life.”

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  14. “Yeah, sure. You know, it's a full day, whether it's the Soyuz or it was going up on space shuttle endeavor. Most recently going up on Soyuz, that one is still very vivid in my memory. We got up mid morning, maybe like 7.30 in the morning. And our doctors made a final check on us to make sure that we're healthy, put on our flight suits, and had some breakfast. And we went through several different ceremonies that are part of the Russian spaceflight program. We had some toasts beforehand and we have a backup crew. So it's really the backup crew that's doing the toasting. But the Russians really treat all of the components of their space launch and really their spaceflight program with a lot of tradition. And so after saying some nice words to each other about where we were and what we were planning on doing, we signed the door of the crew quarters that we stayed in, and that's been done all the way back to Yuri Gagarin, who launched back in 1961. And then the three of us marched forwards.”

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  15. “Yeah, we launched on Endeavor and actually stayed on space station for two months and came home on Discovery. So a couple different shuttles.”

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  16. “Know, I'm on the selection committee for this next class astronauts that will pick and we'll probably announce this summer started out with 18,000 applicants, whittled it down to several thousand that had the basic qualifications down to 600 that had the references checked, 120 who came to NASA, and now we brought it down to 50, and we'll pick 10 out of that 18,000 that applied.”

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  17. “Breast, it is actually our pleasure to be able to connect with you, and I'm very grateful to have the job that I've had here at NASA working as an astronaut. It's really been a boyhood dream that turned into a tangible goal. If you think about it, it's kind of a ridiculous goal to have to become an astronaut. So I just feel really grateful that things have worked out and I've had a chance to go to space a couple of times now.”

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