Bill Shepherd
Bill Shepherd
William Shepherdis an American astronaut, commander of the Expedition One crew on the International Space Station...
helps pressure team truly
I really and truly think that my team is not going to feel the pressure because they don't know what to expect. So I think in this case, being young really helps us out.
hard hopefully junior keeps senior tail works
He's really a hard worker. He works his tail off and hopefully he keeps doing that so that we have a better junior and senior on our hands.
capable surprised
He's young, so he's on one night, off another night. But when he's on, he's really surprised us with what he's capable of doing.
behalf bigger challenge commend crew endeavour flown great mission technical time tremendous
On behalf of the crew on Alpha, I'd like to commend Endeavour and its crew for the tremendous technical challenge and the great achievements ... I can't think of a mission that we've flown in a long time that's been a bigger challenge.
bang buck dress
The most bang for the buck is to dress for the season.
good happy stay
It's good for us. We're happy to stay one more day.
complete feeling hurt spring win
I want them to take that hurt feeling with them. They did not complete something. I want them to think about it all spring and summer, because I'm here to win in March. I never want them to feel this again.
call expedition permission radio requests sign space station
The first expedition on the space station requests permission to take the radio call sign Alpha,
adapt humans readily space surprising
I think the most surprising thing about space was how readily humans can adapt to it.
accept agency biggest change cultural everybody front hardest issue nasa problem russian space work
I think the biggest issue for NASA and for the Russian Space Agency and other folks... (is) everybody has to accept some cultural change to make this happen. It's probably the biggest problem in front of us and it's probably one of the hardest things we have got to go work on.
approach compare countries hugely legacies mirror problem space
This mirror allows us to look at how we do things...and we get to compare this with how other countries approach the same problem and this is hugely valuable. This will be one of the legacies of space station.