NASA ASTRONAUT DISCUSSES LIFE IN SPACE WITH ADMINISTRATOR OF SOUTH KOREAN SPACE AGENCY

0:06 Speaker 1: Station. This is Houston. Are you ready for the event?

0:14 Speaker 2: Houston Station. I am ready for the event.

0:20 Speaker 1: Korean Aerospace Administration. This is Mission Control Houston. Please call station for a voice check.

0:41 Speaker 3: Sasha.

0:46 Speaker 4: Can you hear me?

0:52 Speaker 5: Korean Aerospace Administration, Hello as hell, Welcome, Hello station. I'm looking forward to our conversation.

1:01 Speaker 4: Hi. Hello, hello, Hello, Thanks, a great day.

1:13 Speaker 5: It's a great dayboard the International Space Station. I'm sorry, please go ahead.

1:21 Speaker 3: I'm Chinebago Koya Aerospace Administration. I'm honored and excited to have this opportunity to talk with you, our rear spacemen for the first time. Now with me, I have a CASA administrator and two other officers, Shinik. Could you please introduce yourself to everyone.

1:46 Speaker 5: Yes, Hello, everyone, CASA. It's an honor to be here with you today. My name is Johnny him I'm a NASA astronaut and a naval officer, and I'm currently on board the International Space Station, orbiting our planet two hundred thty miles above the surface. I've been aboard for almost six months and the mission we're on right now is Expedition seventy three.

2:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh so it's interesting.

2:17 Speaker 3: Yes, it's the core yeah, Administration, athor would you like to introduce your safety everyone.

2:26 Speaker 6: Yes, I am young, being young, CASA administrator, it is my great pleasure to meet you. I would right to express my sincere gratitude on behalf of the Korean people for taking the time to be with us today despite your busy schedule. I believe that the words you share with us today will be meaning for guidance and inspiration for our future generations who dream over space.

3:19 Speaker 5: It's an honor to be here with you today, sir, and the very strong words. There's so much to learn and explore about space, and I'm very very inspired by what career is doing to push forward that envelope.

3:37 Speaker 3: For today's interview, KASA collected the question from the public for you, out of order the questions we received, we selected some interesting questions. Are you ready for the questions?

3:54 Speaker 2: I am ready for the questions.

3:58 Speaker 6: Share.

3:58 Speaker 3: We start with the firstcasion, Administrator.

4:02 Speaker 4: It's the course.

4:04 Speaker 6: Yes, shall I? This is a question from the first year middle school student. The stunt became curious after reading an article in the World Street Genre.

4:25 Speaker 2: Yes.

4:25 Speaker 7: I also read that article. By the way, Hello, this is someone kin from KASA. In April, the Words Journal published an article titled the Navy Seale, Harvard Doctor, NASA astronaut Don't tell Mom about this overachiever. I heard it ranked as the number one most read article among leaders.

4:52 Speaker 6: Sounds great. Here is the student question, what inspir you do you to make the transition from a medical doctor to an astronaut and how have your previous experiences helped you in carrying out your current mission.

5:23 Speaker 2: You know, I've always been inspired by service.

5:25 Speaker 5: The original reason I wanted to join the military was to be able to serve others and be a protector. It's something that I really wanted to identify with, and that same yearning continued on through my professions. I never had any plans to be a nationalaut or a medical doctor, but through life I kept an open mind and those opportunities arose and I found that they all fit. My original desire, which is still true today, is to do my part in making the world a better place. That's what I'm super inspired by.

5:58 Speaker 7: Yeah, that's amazing story, I think. Okay, let's move on to the next question. And South Korea is striving to become a space powerhouse. Many Korean news are looking up to you and nurturing their dreams of becoming astronauts. So they are curious about the training for astronauts like you. What training was the most memorable for you?

6:33 Speaker 5: So the train that's most memorable for me was so, you know, I think the most important thing, especially technology moves forward and we've become more automated, is how strong our innerpersonal relationships can be, how effective we can be as team members. And so for that, the most memorable experience for me was an outdoor leadership course that we had where we had pretty difficult missions to do as a group together in an outdoors, austere environment, and through that we became a lot closer. Because I feel from personal experience that challenges, when you work through them together, make you grow stronger.

7:18 Speaker 7: Okay, I think it's so hard, Okay, Okay, shall we move on to the next question?

7:32 Speaker 4: How do you do?

7:33 Speaker 8: This is un young Kim. It's an honor to be talking with you today. The public has sent many questions about life on the International Space Station. On your Instagram, we can see those sins like giving a colleague a haircut and making space sushi with Kutchuzhang and Rice. While these sins might feel unusual, because of the space environment, but they are strangely familiar to Koreans. We are very interested in your daily routine in space. Could you briefly share it with us?

8:15 Speaker 5: Yes, So every day here on space is a blessing and it's also really unique. Most mornings we wake up with a daily conference where we do it right here and we talk to our team that's at NASA Houston and also control centers all around the world, where we talk about the day, and then for the rest of the day we are doing science.

8:35 Speaker 2: We might be doing cargo missions.

8:37 Speaker 5: A couple weeks ago or last week, we captured Sickness, which is a vehicle that's parked just outside, and Zena and I were practicing training on these robotic simulators. Currently, because Signas is recently docked, we're doing a lot of cargo ops and I'm personally looking really forward to that because I ate through all my Colchichong, but I heard there's some in a care package in Sickness, so I can't wait to get that.

9:06 Speaker 2: Also a lot of exercise.

9:08 Speaker 5: And then we conclude the day with another planning conference where we talk about the day's events and close out anything that might need to still be done.

9:19 Speaker 8: Thanks for sharing what you do every day up there. Reading the question we've collected, the majority are about what you eat, what you wear, and how you s live in space. Among these people are curious about how food is stored on the ISS and which meal you have found the most delicious there.

9:46 Speaker 2: The food on board is actually pretty good.

9:49 Speaker 5: We have a food lab at Johnson Space Center and they do an amazing job finding local ingredients, making the food, dehydrating it and chipping it up here. But with that thing said, probably the most favorite thing I have made up here is just things that re mind me at home. One of my most favorite things to make for my kids. So I love to cook, and I love cooking for my family, and they love spamon eggs with the side of cochim and so that's actually been my favorite thing.

10:16 Speaker 2: You put it in a tortilla. Oh it's so good.

10:20 Speaker 5: But like I said, I did run out, so I'm looking forward to the next care package coming up.

10:26 Speaker 8: This sounds delicious. It must be such a pleasure to have a tasty meal in space. And I understand the water conservation is critically important on the International Space Station. How is laundry done there? Is there a unique mess loot for washing clothes in.

10:47 Speaker 2: Space, so we don't actually wash clothes in space.

10:54 Speaker 5: And what that means it's water is one of the is a really heavy molecule, and we find it more cost effective to actually throw away our clothes when they get dirty, so we ship up enough.

11:07 Speaker 2: Clothes to last us for the entire mission.

11:09 Speaker 5: And you did mention water, and I want to show how water behaves in microgravity because it's also one of the coolest things. Surface tension is the prevailing force up here, and what that means is when you see fluid, it coalesces into a perfect sphere and it's just a really cool thing to watch.

11:25 Speaker 2: Let me show you.

11:36 Speaker 9: Whoa oh, and that's how water behaves in space.

11:47 Speaker 5: A little dangerous because I do like this shirt and I got made a little mess about the clean that up later.

11:53 Speaker 8: This sounds like really smart system, not doing laundry through all the used reuses clothes.

12:00 Speaker 4: That's so smart.

12:04 Speaker 8: It seems that thetly tasks we take for granted on ours become quite a challenging space, just like water drop on the ceiling.

12:16 Speaker 7: Okay, my next question is about the cargo capture mission you mentioned. You mentioned earlier. So a few days ago I read an article about the cargo capture mission in iss Uh and where in that mission you played an important role. So could you tell us more about the significant role you played and what were the responsibilities and challenges involved in that mission.

12:46 Speaker 5: Yes, I'd had to say, you know, z and I played a significant role, but it really pales in comparison to what the ground fly control teams had to do. We had the easy part, which was piloting the robotic arm that lives outside the SPA and to grab the vehicle and then birth it to the space station. And so we use hand controllers very similar to the ones to my right and to my left, and Zena and I worked together to make sure we were being safe controlled as we extended that arm to grab the vehicle and bring it in.

13:23 Speaker 8: Oh, this is so young, Kim. Again, I would like to ask ask your next question as far as I know, so use MS twenty seven and scheduled to return to ours this December after completing your mission, What are your plans with experience in both the medical and space field, where do you see yourself focusing in the future.

13:52 Speaker 2: You know, I don't have a plan too far out.

13:55 Speaker 5: I think immediately, I'd love to just spend some time with my wife and my children, catch up with my relationships, and see where my quest for service takes me. I think that has me staying here at NASA. I think there's a lot to look forward to. Just says Korea has much to look forward to in space exploration. We here are as well, and there's so much we can do with international collaboration, and I'd love to be a part of that.

14:27 Speaker 8: I'm sure whatever you'll do, you'll do great. I'm always cheering for you.

14:38 Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

14:39 Speaker 6: Joy Johnny Kim. Now i'd right to share very important event with you this time in Korea. We are preparing for the fourth runch of the Newly Rocket at the end of this Nobel mem NEWI is the Korea's first space runch vehicle developed by our own technology. This upcoming runch is very significant as this is the first time that Korea private company has participated in the entire process of runch, which marks the beginning of what it called the new space Era. Would you like to give us some words to those who have prepared for New's fourth runch.

15:45 Speaker 5: I would be honored to first I'd like to extend my heart congratulations to Korea and the Korean Aerospace Administration and everyone that's worked so hard to make that happen.

15:57 Speaker 2: Space Flight is very, very difficult.

16:00 Speaker 5: It requires cooperation and collaboration across disciplines and countries, and I want to express how inspiring that is as a Korean American to hear that Koreans are boldly going forward to explore that next frontier and to do it together. It really shows how much cooperation and collaboration, how effective that can be, and how much we need that in our world today. And so congratulations to that big step. I know there's going to be more, and you have an entire generation of children and to inspire that are going to make our world a better place.

16:44 Speaker 3: Thank you for your assuring. Oh Light, it seems like we need to wrap it up.

16:50 Speaker 5: I hope you.

16:51 Speaker 3: Enjoyed this interview as much as we did. During kasa's first anniversary May twenty sevens you shared a video message and raising people to never lose hope. So what message would you like to give to the next generation dreaming about space exploration?

17:13 Speaker 5: So I talked about never losing hope. I think it's also in part with not losing hope is just continuing to remember why you're doing what you're doing, whatever your goals are, whether it happens to be being a national or contributing to the space program or anything. As humans, we're going to falter along the way. Life is always full of challenges and unexpected surprises, and it's not so much how we respond to those events in real time or if we fail. It's about how we get up and the moves we make after that.

17:55 Speaker 5: So I'd like to extend it to people maintain hope but also have a lot of resilience moving forward, and with hard work and keeping your eye on the prize, remembering why you're doing what you're doing, you'll be surprised with how far you can get.

18:14 Speaker 4: Thank you for Thank you so much.

18:18 Speaker 6: Thank you for taking your time with us today. I wish you good health as you carry out the remainder of your mission. Last three I would write to invite you to Korea after you return to ours. Looking forward to seeing you again in Korea. Thank you very much, Thank you.

18:44 Speaker 3: So much, and have a safe trip back to Earth.

18:51 Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much.

18:53 Speaker 5: Thank you for being with me here today and signing off from the International Space Station.

18:58 Speaker 2: Goodbye, thank you.

19:00 Speaker 4: Bye bye.

19:01 Speaker 2: We want to see you again.

19:02 Speaker 4: Bye bye bye.

19:04 Speaker 3: Yeah station, this is Houston ACR.

19:11 Speaker 2: Thank you. That concludes our event.

19:18 Speaker 1: Thank you to all participants. Station. We are now resuming operational audio communications