Bill Shepherd
Bill Shepherd
William Shepherdis an American astronaut, commander of the Expedition One crew on the International Space Station...
healthy living moving people period questions space toward understand
We're moving toward a period where we understand how to have people living and working and being healthy in space indefinitely. There are big questions about how to do that.
crew everybody happy space station thanksgiving wish
So I just want to wish everybody down there happy Thanksgiving from the crew of space station Alpha.
along cold hood ornament post space station war
The space station is a hood ornament , if you will, for how we need to get along in the post Cold War world,
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.
adapted biggest flew four life ready station survival training ways
Survival training is one of the biggest ways that we did that. I think four years of that before we flew made us really ready for life on station and we adapted well.
ready
We were technically ready to come home, but we're still going through a lot of details.
exercise experience good
We're doing very well, actually. Our pre-flight and in-flight experience -- getting good exercise has really helped.
good ride rocket ship thankful
When you ride a good rocket ship to orbit, you have a lot to be thankful for.
certainly clean hair miss otherwise
I did miss having a shower, particularly to clean my hair up. But otherwise what we did onboard was certainly very workable.
ready sail
Sail her well, ... I am ready to be relieved.
star step
Another step for the Federation, ... Star Trek.