WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to k I Am six forty the bill 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:07.839 Handle show on demand on the iheartradiop. 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:11.240 I Am six forty bill Handle. 4 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:15.839 Here it is a taco Tuesday, June seventeenth. Pretty special 5 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:20.120 guest this morning a friend of Amy's, Colonel Nick Hayes, 6 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:26.000 NASA astronaut, who is on a four month tour, a 7 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.679 PR tour around the country because that's what they do. 8 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:33.920 And he brought his fourteen year old son with him, Asher, 9 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:38.560 And I asked, Asher, are you bored silly coming to 10 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.280 these things? He said absolutely so, Colonel Haig, how can 11 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:43.320 you do that to your kid? 12 00:00:43.799 --> 00:00:45.960 I know it's cruel and unusual punishment, isn't it. 13 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.799 Yeah? Yeah, fourteen year olds? Look what you did. 14 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:52.479 Hey, congratulations, you're starting your summer vacation and you get 15 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:54.000 to follow me around for a week. 16 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:54.320 Yeah. 17 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:56.840 I also asked him, so do you stay in the 18 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:57.960 same hotel room as your dad? 19 00:00:58.000 --> 00:00:59.920 He goes absolutely. I go do they give you an 20 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:00.679 nice hotel room? 21 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.000 Goes no, no, no, no, this is the gard special 22 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.079 treatment nothing, you know, this small hotel room and yeah, 23 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:09.040 none of that. Although you have the Dodger game today, 24 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:11.640 it's a Colonel Haig, do you mind if we get 25 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:13.840 inform informal, can I just call you colonel Haig? You 26 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:15.480 could just call me Nick and that'd be great. Oh 27 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:17.680 that's even better. Well you can call me your excellent 28 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:18.680 See that works out. 29 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:19.040 Well. 30 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.120 Oh do I have questions? Now? 31 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:24.599 I know you've gotten every question in the world. Inevitably 32 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.000 the bathroom question everybody asked you. 33 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:27.840 Is that where you're starting? 34 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.599 No, God, now I will finish up there. Yea, yeah, 35 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:34.319 I couldn't care less. Uh. And the food, there's so 36 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:37.040 much tang you can drink, of course, you know the 37 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:40.920 food that Yeah, okay, fine, we've done that. But life 38 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.480 on the space station. Uh, that one gets kind of interesting. 39 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:50.000 First of all, what's the difference between, for example, being 40 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.959 weightless and going in a really fast elevator? 41 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:54.879 So is it just a question of time? 42 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.959 So weightless, it's it's the we're up there in orbit 43 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.519 because we're all falling toward the center of the Earth. 44 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:07.200 We just happen to be going fast enough forward that 45 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.800 as we fall the trajectory, the curvature of our trajectory 46 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.879 matches the curvature of the Earth. And so if you 47 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.639 could throw a baseball five miles a second, then it 48 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.879 would go into orbit, but you can't throw it that fast. 49 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:22.840 But that's what we do with the space station. So 50 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:24.599 there's this thing up there that's the size of a 51 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.000 football field that we assembled over the course of a 52 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:31.280 decade and over one hundred spacewalks put this laboratory together, 53 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:37.400 and it allows us to float or free fall NonStop 54 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:38.879 as long as we want to. 55 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.400 So, uh, do you get used to it? I mean, 56 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:43.120 does that become do wayless? 57 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.000 This just becomes sort of a normal thing like gravity 58 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:46.439 is here. 59 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:50.520 We don't pay attention to Your body adapts, your mind adapts, 60 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.719 and so first your your body figures out, hey, everything's 61 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:56.159 floating inside me, and it starts to adapt how it 62 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:58.680 processes those inputs, and so it stops listening to your 63 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.120 inner ear and it just uses your eyes for visual 64 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:05.080 cues on how you navigate around. You start predicting subconsciously 65 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.800 how things are going to behave based on floating versus 66 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.680 being in gravity. So if go back to a ball analogy, 67 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:11.960 if I was going to throw a ball when I'm 68 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.919 up there, if I threw it to you, I'd invariably 69 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.159 hit the ceiling when I first got there, because I'm 70 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.800 trying to compensate for gravity. When I get back down 71 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.639 to Earth, the exact same happens. So you know, you 72 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:26.080 throw it short because you're not planning on gravity. I've 73 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.039 been back three months, so I've got high hopes that 74 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:29.919 I'm actually going to get the first pitch across the 75 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:30.479 plate tonight. 76 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.240 Oh that's right, you are. Show Hey, Otani's going to 77 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:35.879 be putting the ball in orbit. I understand he'll do 78 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.120 that five miles a second. Now I know that, and 79 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:41.800 everybody sees that in the videos. Is the exercise two 80 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:43.639 and a half hours you have to do and that 81 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.280 treadmill where you're strapped, you have that tether down there 82 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:48.759 two and a half hours of They get at least 83 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:50.759 give you a little screen in front so you can 84 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.400 watch Netflix or something. 85 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.479 Oh yeah, that's because the wall is like two feet away. 86 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:59.840 It get pretty monotonous. So we do have iPads up there, 87 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.199 get apps we can download. We've got great connectivity up there, 88 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.360 so I can download shows and binge watch seasons of things. 89 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:08.520 So there's a lot of there's a lot of podcasts. 90 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:10.080 There's a lot of things that you can listen to 91 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.000 two and a half hours a day every day. 92 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:12.800 You we get bored. 93 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.960 I mean just you know, you're doing this basically this 94 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.279 sort of the same thing, or is it so different, 95 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.759 different experiments, different things that you do that it's just 96 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:22.519 all fascinating. 97 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:26.040 It's like waking up at Christmas. You don't know what's 98 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:27.879 going to be inside some of these boxes. Some of 99 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:33.439 the stuff we don't actually see until I open it up. 100 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.199 And so there's a team on the ground, hundreds of people. 101 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.600 They plan every five minute segment of the day, and 102 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.680 from seven thirty in the morning till seven thirty at night, 103 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:44.439 they're telling us, hey, this is what you need to do, 104 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.360 and so we do experiment after maintenance after experience. Keep 105 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:52.480 busy and it's different every day, and so we're busy, 106 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:56.639 the time flies, and then if you're ever bored, then 107 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:58.639 all you need to do is just. 108 00:04:58.639 --> 00:04:59.639 Float over to the window. 109 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.720 How much free time do you get a day? If any? 110 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.800 Free time is how you define it. You know, during 111 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:09.600 the work day, there's not really much free time. Before 112 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.439 we start the work day, You've got about an hour 113 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:13.199 and a half after you wake up, but you got 114 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:14.480 to eat and you got to get ready for the 115 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:16.800 day and check your email and check in with the 116 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.360 family at home. And then you've got about an hour 117 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.639 two hours before you go to bed after the end 118 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.439 of the workday, and so there's time to steal away 119 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.120 moments and enjoy living in space. 120 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:28.519 Say you're up for how long? 121 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:30.079 Six months? This time? 122 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.480 Around six months? Yeah, and you're there. Obviously, do they 123 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.560 pay you overtime over forty hours? 124 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.560 I would think no salary employee, no overtime. 125 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:43.800 Wow, it turns out you don't even make minimum wage. 126 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.040 Does it not if you add up all the hours? Yeah, 127 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:46.399 all right. 128 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.600 Colonel haigu is here. Colonel Nick Haig is with us. 129 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:53.920 Say an astronaut, am still working as an astronaut. We 130 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:56.519 were just talking Nick, You've been kind enough to let 131 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:00.680 me call you Nick. That we were going through the 132 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.079 process of how you get selected as an astronaut. And 133 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.079 I'm a space buff and you go look back to 134 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:11.240 the original seven astronauts and what they had to go through. 135 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:16.120 I mean the testing, I mean, for it's just insane. 136 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.160 They got prodded and poked and I mean there were 137 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:22.519 more things going to their bodies simultaneously. 138 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:24.240 That's just part of it. 139 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:27.759 Are they still that insane or has it become reality now? 140 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.360 They are still that thorough yes, you know, medical getting 141 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.920 over the medical bar is one of those high things. 142 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:36.759 So you know, if you want to become an astronaut, 143 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.199 you got to take care of yourself, you know, just 144 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:41.399 in general it's a good thing to take care of 145 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.439 your body and take care of yourself and stay in shape. 146 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:49.079 But yeah, it's an in depth, thorough screening process. But 147 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.800 it all starts with an application. And to apply to 148 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.040 be an astronaut, you just have to be a you know, 149 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.199 a US citizen and have a master's degree in a 150 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:04.120 STEM field and submit your application online when they send 151 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.600 out a call for a selection, and they do that 152 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:10.240 based on demand, and on average it's been about once 153 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.439 every four or five years there'll be a job listing 154 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:14.399 on USA Jobs. 155 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:16.399 Now, it used to be we go back to the 156 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:20.920 original Yeah, right there. You look at indeed, the original 157 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.839 astronauts and in the second class, and Neil Armstrong was 158 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:28.079 in the second class astronauts, interestingly enough, and he had 159 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:29.879 applied and you know, the first time. 160 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.079 Out didn't make it. They were all test pilots. 161 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:35.240 That was Eisenhower who decided that test pilots were going 162 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.680 to be it. Anybody who I'm assuming is either the 163 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:44.560 commander or actually flies, you know, pilots they aircraft and 164 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.600 during the Shuttle days had to be a pilot of 165 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:48.279 some kind. 166 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.360 Right, Yeah, the Space Shuttle was a different vehicle. The 167 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:56.680 capsules we fly now have a different, different interface, if 168 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:01.639 you will. We still, as an astronaut Corps value the 169 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.879 skill set of the test pilot, but we also bring 170 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:09.759 in a pretty you know, disparate experience base when we 171 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.000 bring in a class, and so we don't want everybody 172 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:14.759 to be a test pilot. We want to have those different. 173 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:15.839 I would think. 174 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:18.879 So now I'm assuming the psychological testing has to be insane, 175 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.519 that you have to get along with people. Have you 176 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.199 ever flown with anybody that just everybody hated? Yeah, yeah, 177 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.360 just I hate that person and you're there for six months. 178 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:27.839 Yeah. 179 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:30.720 Well, you know, fortunately we don't end up on the 180 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:34.120 International Space Station like that. There's you know, we we 181 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.519 select people coming in, and you're right, there is a 182 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:41.960 pretty steep or pretty thorough selection process where we'll bring 183 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:45.440 people in and you know, put them in this in 184 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.639 this situation, put a number on them, have a whole 185 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.960 group of people surrounding them taking notes, and then give 186 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.799 them something to solve that's impossible to solve and then 187 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.360 see how the stress of the situation plays out and 188 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:02.720 understand their inner skills, because fundamentally, you want to be 189 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.159 on a space mission in that confined space with people 190 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.200 that are good people to work with, and so we 191 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.519 really want to know do you have those soft skills 192 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.799 you Are you a good teammate? Do you take care 193 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:15.600 of yourself? Do you look to take care of the 194 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:17.879 people that you're with? And are you kind? 195 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:20.879 Do they put groups together? I mean, did you meet. 196 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:22.919 Let's say this is the crew that's going to go up, 197 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.000 and y'all sit around and do a cocktail party the 198 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:27.679 night before, so you get to know each other. 199 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:29.639 Or field trips in Disneyland or whatever. 200 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:31.039 We do our version of that. 201 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.639 So once I got assigned to Crew nine mission, we 202 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:41.200 took our crew and we went to Wyoming and through 203 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.320 an outfit there, the National Outdoor Leadership School, we did 204 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:50.000 a six day camping trip up into the mountains in 205 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.120 waist deep snow and built igloes and suffered in the 206 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.000 cold and got to know each other in that stressful environment. 207 00:09:57.080 --> 00:10:00.519 So yeah, we spend time intentionally getting to know each 208 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:04.480 other and understand, you know, what's everybody everybody's got pet peeves. 209 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:07.679 Everybody got things that kind of you know, we'll set 210 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.600 them on edge a little bit and you understand what 211 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:11.679 those are and then you figure out how you're going 212 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:12.759 to be successful together. 213 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.799 A lot of big glob building, I'm assuming on the 214 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:16.399 space station. 215 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:17.840 Yeah, it's similar. 216 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.639 Do you, for one, colonel, have no idea what it's 217 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.000 like to be locked in a small space with someone 218 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:26.279 you hate, working day in and day out. 219 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:27.519 Yeah, I don't know how you do it. 220 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:29.960 Yeah, I feel by the tone in your voice you 221 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:31.440 like me to close the door here. 222 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.039 No, no, no, I'm fine. 223 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.840 I've got two other questions. I'm hoping we can do 224 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.919 this for hours. That and that is do you work 225 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.879 in different shifts where there really is no time and 226 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.039 people are sleeping at different times, eating at different times. 227 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:48.799 We try to synchronize to a day. 228 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.559 The circadian rhythm and a person is really important, and 229 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:55.720 so the whole crew will synchronize to Greenwich meantime. Wake 230 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.480 up at six am, go to bed at nine thirty 231 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.639 at night. And that's also important to synchronize because we've 232 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:04.200 got it's not just the seven people on the space station, 233 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:07.200 it's the hundreds of people in Mission Control Center and 234 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.159 So you've got a mission control center in Houston, in Japan, 235 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:12.879 in Germany and Russia, and so they all have to 236 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:13.519 be synchronized. 237 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:17.080 And I'm assuming one person stays awake just as a 238 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:18.480 guard in case anybody breaks in. 239 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.559 Yeah, you always got a guard against the aliens out there. 240 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.080 I know where you're going with this. We all sleep 241 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:27.480 together and fortunately the ground is there twenty four to seven, 242 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:29.639 so we really rely on the ground support. 243 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.000 It's a gigantic team that makes it work well. 244 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.759 Apolo was what four hundred thousand people that put the 245 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.960 three men on the moon. What was the first meal 246 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.360 you ate when you got off the space station? 247 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:44.000 I had a Deli sandwich If that sounds strange, not 248 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.919 at all. Fresh bread is something that you don't get 249 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:49.200 up there because it's not shelf stable for long enough. 250 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.039 And so a nice loaf of bread making a good 251 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:53.320 sandwich is nice. 252 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:55.600 What's the best thing that they serve you up there 253 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:59.600 food wise? And what's something that everybody hates and will 254 00:11:59.600 --> 00:11:59.960 not eat? 255 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:00.679 Uh? 256 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:05.519 Well, everybody's got their own personal preferences. I I typically 257 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:10.559 wouldn't touch the crawfish attufe uh uh, because you get 258 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:14.279 sick and throwing up there. Is not easy taste changes 259 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:18.639 up there. So for whatever reason for me, that is 260 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.399 a really bland dish, and so to make it spicy, 261 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.240 I end up having to add so much hot sauce 262 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:27.120 that it leads to indigestion. So it's just better not 263 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.039 to not to not to eat it. But you know, 264 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:32.279 best foods up there. I got a sweet tooth, So 265 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:34.240 I work out two and a half hours a day 266 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.279 up there every day, which affords me the ability to 267 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:38.200 enjoy some dessert. 268 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:40.440 No corn nuts, because everybody hates those. 269 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.159 And you know they're they're hard, and so you don't 270 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.799 want to fracture a tooth up there. Oh yeah, because 271 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.120 because then the dentist, which we don't have a dentist 272 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.200 up there. So I've had training so that I can 273 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:54.279 try to temporarily fill a cavity or pull a tooth. 274 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.159 Oh really, And you don't want me doing that, do you? 275 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:56.919 Oh that's cool? 276 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:00.480 So uh yeah, I'm assuming you're you're you know, I mean, 277 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:02.639 they don't have doctors up there, and I don't think 278 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.559 anybody's gotten seriously sick where they had to send someone down, 279 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:06.159 have they. 280 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:11.039 So we've we've had conditions, but we are always have 281 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.600 been able to manage those conditions. Space is really hard 282 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.279 on the body. Thankfully, there's a team of doctors on 283 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:20.440 the ground and every so often we have an astronaut 284 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.840 that is a doctor that's on board, so we leverage 285 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:25.840 that expertise when we can. But we've got flight surgeons 286 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:27.720 on the ground that are in constant contact, so if 287 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:29.799 we have an emergency, we bring them in on the 288 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:31.639 radio and they can talk through and we do a 289 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:32.759 lot of training. 290 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:35.919 Yeah, and constant training. When you're down here. As soon 291 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.600 as this tour thing is over, are you back to Yeah. 292 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.879 It never gets old. You're always training, you're always learning 293 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:44.519 something new. It's it's like, you know, it's like going 294 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:45.960 to college your whole life. 295 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.039 How often can you actually fly. 296 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.159 Or let me put it this way, the time the 297 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.200 timeline between you coming down and then everybody wants to 298 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.320 go back up on assuming as quickly as possible. 299 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:58.879 What's usually that timeline? 300 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:00.240 Yeah, on every. 301 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:04.519 It's probably it's hard to say three, four or five years. 302 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.120 When you think of the demand, there's a two year 303 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:09.440 usually a two year lead up to your launch, so 304 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:12.360 you're assigned two years of training. You launch, there's another 305 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:14.759 six months on board the station. And then there's a 306 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:18.399 six month postflight to rehabilitate, to reconnect with the family 307 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.879 and rest up and be ready to go again. So 308 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:24.120 that's three years minimum, but it's it's a little bit 309 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.480 more than that. You know, there's four dozen of us 310 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.720 down at Houston active astronauts on the US side, and 311 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.639 so we cycle through a flight assignments. 312 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:37.960 One last question, because we're out of time. When your 313 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.559 kid goes to school and they you know, they bring 314 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.919 in what your dad do day does when he says 315 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:45.720 my dad's an astronaut, do all the kids think he's 316 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:46.240 just a liar? 317 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.840 No, because we live in a town where the mayor 318 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:53.080 is a former astronaut and there's a dozen astronauts. 319 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.120 Deal, it's no big deal. I tell you. 320 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:58.080 What is a big deal is my dad he's a plumber. 321 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:00.879 My dad's my dad's in the space for that. That is 322 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:03.320 a little bit different because it hasn't existed very long, 323 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:06.200 and so I think that that's a that's a you know, 324 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:10.279 something that he is still educating his his classmates about, 325 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:11.720 you know, like what is a guardian? 326 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.080 What does the Space Force do? 327 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.399 That's cool, that's cool, colonel, Thank you? What a what 328 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:16.879 a trip? 329 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:19.679 This is I wish we had another hour and a 330 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.840 half on this at least, But onwards and upwards. I 331 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:24.960 know you're going in to the Dodger game tonight, and 332 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:29.360 I know anything over ten bucks you cannot accept. 333 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:30.720 You have to buy your own Dodger dogs. 334 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.559 We're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna enjoy our evening and 335 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:34.519 I'm not gonna. 336 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:36.000 Look at the pocketbook. 337 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:40.960 Yeah, all right, guys, we're done. Time for Tech Tuesday. 338 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:45.039 Mike Dubuski, ABC News Technology reporter Mike is always thanks 339 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:49.240 for hanging out. Quick question, well I even actually not 340 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:53.519 even quick. The Trump family phone plan. So let me 341 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.399 ask you. I don't know if you bought a one 342 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:02.360 of the Trump ties bibles. The stakes were very strong, 343 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:05.679 and now we've got the phone plan, tell us about it. 344 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:09.039 Why would other than for political reasons, why would I 345 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:10.440 buy a phone plan? 346 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:14.000 That's a great question, and I will try to measure 347 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:15.039 up to the astronaut here. 348 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:16.039 I know it's a tough act to. 349 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.919 Follow, but yes, on Monday here in New York City, 350 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.120 the Trump Organization, which is not run by President Donald 351 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.360 Trump but rather run by his sons Eric and Don Junior, 352 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.519 announced that they're getting into the telecom space with Trump Mobile. 353 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.279 This is what's known as an MVNO or a virtual 354 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:38.960 mobile excuse me, a virtual mobile network operator, which kind 355 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.320 of piggybacks off the larger service providers in the United 356 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.679 States AT and T, Verizon T Mobile, so it should 357 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.480 offer the same coverage as those types of service providers. 358 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:52.759 It is forty seven forty five a month, which are 359 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.279 significant numbers for the Trump family given that that is 360 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.840 sort of his place in the presidential line. But that 361 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.279 is a little bit more expensive than what we would 362 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.200 expect from some of the competitors in this smaller network space, 363 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:10.640 things like Mint Mobile or things like Cricket Wireless. This 364 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.279 is a little bit pricier than that. But the Trump 365 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.039 family is saying that they're offering some bonuses, things like 366 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:20.640 roadside assistance and telehealth services. We don't know really how 367 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:22.759 that's going to work in practice, but that is what 368 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.440 they are saying. Justifies that additional cost. And in addition, 369 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:28.279 despite the fact that they say that this will work 370 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:31.400 with pretty much any modern smartphone, they're also offering their 371 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.279 own smartphone. But this thing also raises a little bit 372 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:35.720 more questions than it. 373 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:37.359 You know, maybe at. 374 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.400 First blush answers. It is called the T one. Its 375 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.960 full name is actually T one Phone eight thousand and 376 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.200 two gold version. It is gold. It has a big 377 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.759 T on the back and an American flag. They say 378 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:50.599 it has a six point eight inch screen with a 379 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:54.039 one hundred and twenty hertz refresh rate, of fifty megapixel 380 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:57.920 camera and a five thousand million hour long life battery. 381 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.119 So it is a pretty standard mid range Android device, 382 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:03.880 but there are some question marks on the website if 383 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.359 you dive a little deeper into the specs. For example, 384 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:10.079 the processor and RAM section claims that the storage of 385 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:13.359 this phone is twelve gigabytes of RAM. Ram and storage 386 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:14.880 are two different things, so we don't really know what 387 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:16.680 the storage is here. We also don't know what the 388 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.759 processor is up until this morning when they change it. 389 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:21.799 They also claim to have a five thousand million amp 390 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:25.640 hour camera of million empowers are used to describe battery size, 391 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.480 so that is also a sort of question mark there. 392 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:31.759 The photo they have appears to be a computer rendering. 393 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.079 It looks sort of iPhone esque, but there's no flash 394 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:37.799 next to the camera array, so that's a question mark 395 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:39.960 as well. These are all things that maybe should give 396 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.000 people pause before they put down the one hundred dollars deposit. 397 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.359 Yeah, by the way, one dollars deposit. 398 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.599 Towards how much five hundred dollars is. 399 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.839 Okay, all right, but obviously not the gold phone. 400 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.039 Well, so it's interesting, right they call it the gold version, 401 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.160