WEBVTT - Mike Massimino 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.560 My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:08.400 is joy. I talked to interest in people about what 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:14.280 brings them happiness. Make mass Amino has done something that 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.480 I've always wanted to do, and he's beat the space. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:26.280 Here's Mike. Do you wear headphones when you're in space? 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.440 You need to be able to communicate with the ground, 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.760 with each other. So sometimes we would not big ones 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:32.320 like this. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.480 No big head We had a little ones like earbuds. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.720 Ye're like, no, maybe now they do that. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.760 We have these old kind of like the thing you know, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.519 like Janet Jackson would wear and are singing, you know, Madonna, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:42.360 one thing like that. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.040 Like that, not the just I'm talking about the communication gear. Yeah, no, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:48.559 I get it. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:49.159 Some of us. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:50.680 You know, you do whatever you want up there really 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.840 as long as the camera's not on. But the cameras 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.400 are so low I think the cameras, yeah, but you 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.800 can you can turn off. But but the little here 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:58.960 it's kind of like a little mic headset, so you 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.160 can wear a headset or you're yeah, you have to 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.880 have something now in your space suit when you're spacewalk 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:05.480 and you wear a snoopy cap because it makes it 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.080 look like Snoopy the dog. And then you have headphones 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.200 on your you know, but they're not big like this, right, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.080 there's just little headphones and there microphones that got colmcap 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:13.360 is well. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.440 And do you have to when you finished talking? Do 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.520 you have to say beep when you're finished talking? 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.320 No, that happens naturally. But I think they got rid 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:21.960 of that thing. They got rid of the They got 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.679 rid of the beep. Last time I was down there, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.440 they called it a quindar. They were a guy that 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:27.720 can look up what the hell that means. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.200 I thought quindar was a medical name for a lady's 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:32.520 personal equipment. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.480 It might be man, that's why they called it that. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.319 But a little beep that was called a just called 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.320 a quindar. And how was there a couple of years ago. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.000 I'm like, what's going There's no beep and they know 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:42.800 we don't. I think why they did that back in 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.360 the day was it was like an actual city. When 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.280 you'd cue the mic, it was a signal that was 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.560 sent to kind of clear the line. It's like it 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.520 was an antiquated thing. So they have just like a 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.320 beep and we're like clear the lines. So now the 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.640 message is coming. Nothing's coming in this direction. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:57.600 This is gone. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.600 You know, you're talking to a guy in space. If 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.640 you don't get I agree with you, I agree with me. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:04.680 That all. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.240 Now listen, Mike, I'm talking to you. And right in 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.840 front of me, right here is a book called Moonshaw right. Yeah, 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.160 And it says it's written by you. Now I know 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.600 you for a couple of years. You wrote a whole 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:17.320 book go by yourself. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.440 Knowing you a long time. Actually, I mean it's show. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.880 It was an nine. Oh wow. It was my first 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.120 late night appearance and it was an I. So it 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:27.600 was fourth. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.040 That's fourth over fourteen years, ten years ago. So you 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.080 were saying, did I write this by myself? Yeah, you 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.440 know I wanted to, I thought because I had written 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.520 another book. I had his co writer named Tanner Colby. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.639 He was great. He wrote a book with Trevanoah as well, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.320 and he wrote helped me with my first book. And 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.000 so I was like, now I can branch out on 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.880 my own. And my agent said, I don't think that's 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.320 a good idea. I'm calling Tanner. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:50.959 So he got it. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.400 It was a little bit different than the way we 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.799 worked together the first time. It was more me writing 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.720 and than him kind of looking at the stories and 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.760 telling me what he needed. And as before I told 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.520 him stories and it was then he had someone transpose it, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.520 you know, and he would write it from that. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.600 So a little bit different. But no, I did have help. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.400 I think it's good to have help. Definitely. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.960 Yeah, it's going to be better with especially with someone 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:15.919 who's talented as Tanner. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.639 And I love the guy. He's so much fun to 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:22.600 work with, so all the resources in the co everything. Yeah, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:23.680 why not? All right? 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.519 So I'm not an astronaut's guide to achieving the impulsible, right, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.079 all right? So here here's my question. Then, what did 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.720 you learn when you were becoming an astronaut? First of all, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.480 here's the thing. I know this, but you're not a pilot. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.440 I'm a private pilot. You're a private right but you 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.320 know you or I am, Yeah. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.400 But probably more accomplished than I am in there in 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:48.040 the private pilot realm. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.880 I don't know by that. I haven't flow that. I'm 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.200 like VFR single engine. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.240 Okay, that's what I did. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.120 You do that before you went a space raft. I 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.360 did that before before it was an astronaut. I got 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.880 my pilot's since once we became astronauts. We got to 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.240 fly in T thirty eight's, so I have a thousand 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.080 hours of co pilot in a T thirty eight high 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:13.000 performance jet. So it's a mock airplane. It could go, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.400 but we would cruise, you know, about zero point nine 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.919 to one mock, so five hundred miles an hour up 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.560 high at forty one thousand feet. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.920 It could go high. Did you do the sine wave 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:23.640 thing to do to witlessness? 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.400 You could do that in that plane or any airplane 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:33.039 as a matter of fact, my pend Oh yeah, yeah, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.680 that would make your cough. You gotta be careful. But 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.640 that airplane that we used to use was a KC 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.200 one thirty five, and then they started using a d 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.320 C eight. NASA did and then they turned it over 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.600 to a contractor. There's a company that does that. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:47.719 It's a company in Vegas. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.839 Is on there, you know, I don't want to mispronounce 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.520 there and they get it wrong, but there's a zero 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.720 maybe zero G or something. They do this where people, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.600 paying customers can go and I think, you, yeah, you're 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.840 just go on his airplane. And I don't know if 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.800 it's different than what we did. The parabolos are probably similar. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.000 To what we did when we were training. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.000 Did you throw up before slaving? Did it? 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:15.160 I did not, But I wanted to medicated. We would 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.720 medicate for these things. Yeah, so this is so they 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.840 would give us. An Essa gave me. He would give 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.200 us this thing. It's called scope dex and what it 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.960 was it was scopolamine, which is like an anti nausea drug, right, 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.520 but that apparently makes you a little sleepy. So they 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.000 didn't like that idea. So they would combine that with 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.880 Texa dream or something like Yeah Dexi's midnight runners. So 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.479 they would give that combined to us. So let's go 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.480 A couple of years ago, I was doing a I 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.240 was doing like a commercial video ad for Lego, and 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.240 they wanted to build Legos and zero gravity. So they're 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.400 find me if we're gonna go out, we're gonna do this. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.440 They couldn't get the airplane here in America, I don't know. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.040 We went out to France, to Bordeaux and flew with 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.839 this with a French different it's more European very you're 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.800 doing it. It was a little bit different, but it 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.680 was it was so anyway. So I go to my 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.039 now like I go to a doctor, here, you know 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:12.120 in New York have like a family doctors. Yeah, doctor 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.400 bask and I need some scolpe decks. She's like, what 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.080 I need? Uh, the sculpt because what is that? I 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.359 go it's She goes, that's not anything real. That's just 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:21.599 something they gave you, guys. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:25.560 You can't get that. Yeah, it's like it was, I 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.279 mean it was a real pill. What they did? I wondered. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.039 You know, you're right because they would give it to 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.320 us in a little like a see through capsule, and 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.279 you saw these two things floating around in it, so 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.560 they kind of made their own concoction. She goes, I 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:36.960 can't get I can't get that for you. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.760 So it was just like so it's basically a guy 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.840 on the way the aircraft going angy one you want. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.200 But we had it in space. I flew it. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.360 I took it before I flew in space as well. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.640 So that was a really good anti nausea drug. But 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:50.800 still I felt a. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.640 Little did you get up? You get up on the 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.120 shuttles on a shuttle twice? That's so that's like a 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:57.560 powerful takeoff, right. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.640 There was a lot of power. Shuttle is was huge 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.200 can comparison to like the SpaceX vehicle were you're really 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.000 just putting putting a few people in it. Shuttle can 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.679 carry seven passengers and a lot of cargo like something 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.440 like double space telescope and big pieces of the of 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.600 the space station. So when you take when you take 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.240 gs the G forces to go to orbit or similar, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.800 no matter what a space craft you're in, you get 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:21.760 a max of three g's. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.440 That's for about two and a half minutes. That's it. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.640 So like in a in a in a high performance 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.840 jet you can go much higher than it's only for 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.440 a split second, right, because if you sustain a high 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.160 G actually yeah, you can get to you right. So 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.520 but with this you run your back. So the reason 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.600 you could pass out in a high performance jet doing 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.240 it like a six G turn is that the you're 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.120 kind of sitting in a chair more or less right, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.920 and the lot the I can't believe it's going to 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.440 say vector, we can you know, you know what I mean, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:52.160 you know, a small audience. So the vector So the vector, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.320 as you understand, of course, the gravity vector now is 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.560 is going through your head, down through your vertical so 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.720 it's vertical exactly. So that's sucks the blood out of 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.800 your head. And you can pass out right in space. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.800 You're lying on your back for that reason, so that 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.280 the gravity vector is going for your for your chest, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.080 so you feel it in your chest. I feel like 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.240 there were three big dudes sitting on me, none in 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.040 a good way, in a good way. So it remind 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.880 me of my playground days as a child. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.280 I'm going to get to that because you and I 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:18.720 are of a similar vintage. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.240 Yes, I think almost exactly. I'm sixty one, now, that's 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:23.400 what I am sixteen? 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.040 Right? What do you think about that? Is that? 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:25.360 All right? 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:26.520 I gotta be honest. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.320 As long as I don't look in the mirror, I 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.560 don't notice anything to me. As long as I don't 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.400 look in the mirror, and I'm talking about looking in 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.960 the mirror, particularly below the neck, I'm like, what the 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.719 hell hell's happening because the gravity vector is pilling. I've 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.439 got some of that super strong American gravity working on 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.120 at least one of my testicles. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.680 Better not to look. You don't need to be looking 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.480 at it. I was thinking about that. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.719 So if I ever get plastic surgery, I'm going to 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:56.120 start with my balls. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.120 Really, what are you going to do? Well? 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.160 I thought i'd get them plumped and you know, a 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:04.800 lift because here's what I thought. I know that wheel, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.480 but here's what I thought, because look, it's your balls. Yeah, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.320 like if they if they screw it up, it's not 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.760 gonna look at any worse. It can't look at it. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.680 That's a very sensitive area though. I'd leave those things alone, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.040 all right. I want to mess with that. Yeah, no, no, no, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:20.960 no no, yeah. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.080 I'm not an expert in this area, but I leave 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.880 it alone. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.439 You know, it's very important that you get massive people 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.440 under your podcast ball to do that. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.000 No, I don't want to let him mess with that. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.320 I want to do that now, all right. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.840 Fair enough, but you know you can achieve the impossible, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.120 make your screwed them look good after the age of six. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.840 But here's the thing. You and I are a similar vintage. Right, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.880 so when I'm when I'm a kid, I'm seven years old. Yeah, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.800 so you're the same. Yeah, And I see I'm allowed 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.000 because of the time difference. It's on in the middle 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.880 of the night in British television, Scotch television. I see 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.679 these guys land on the moon. Yeah, and I'm like, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:58.760 I want to be an American. That's when I say 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.440 that I'm. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.320 I was like, I'm gonna be and you are in America. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.440 I have an America now, Yeah, And I was like, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.840 whatever these guys are doing, that's that's I'm into that. 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.880 Yeah. I never I never went to space. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.680 I never did it, but I thought, whatever these people 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.600 are doing, I want to be part of that. Yeah, now, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.840 I can guess. And that had a big effect on 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:18.920 you when you were a kid too. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.959 Yeah, absolutely exactly what you said, Greig. I remember looking 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.600 at that TV said a little bit earlier than you did. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.760 Yeah, time wise, Yeah, it was private thing for you, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.240 and it was like probably about it. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.080 I don't know, we you know, we could look this up, 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.600 I guess. But it's around eight o'clock, nine o'clock when 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:34.880 that first walk. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.080 And see, that's why I love America as well. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.240 It was like we got a live prime time right, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.079 we got to let the world adjust. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.480 That's what fun. Everybody else we need time. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.520 We want primetime TV audience for America say that. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.880 Yeah, that's another reason, yeah, to come to America. But 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.240 I remember saying that. I was like, I not only 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.400 wanted to grow up to do that, I want to 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.080 grow up to be those guys. I wanted to be 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:03.360 like Neil Armstrong, right, I did. Yeah, I met him. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.400 Yeah, he's he's awesome. He was. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.760 He was just great. So the first time I met him, Craig, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:09.319 do you have time for a story here? 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:10.840 So I met him. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.319 It was my first week as an astronaut. Can you imagine. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.640 He was in town for his physical, his annual physical, 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.400 and our training coordinator reached out to was, Hey, you 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:21.880 want to come speak to these new astronauts. So he 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.960 said sure. So he was. He was almost like painfully shy. Yeah, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.360 and he didn't even talk about the moon. He talked 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.439 about flying the X fifteen and so on. And then 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.160 we went to Q and A. We asked him about 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.760 the moon landing. Of course my first question was about that. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.440 But I saw him the next day in the cafeteria 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:40.760 and I go up through I hat to like say 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.360 something to him. I didn't want to bother going up 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.280 to him, so I introduced myself and I said, Neil, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.760 you know, I asked you something. How did you come 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.040 up with that thing you said on the moon? You know, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.160 I think he said on one small set from man 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.120 one shine leaf. I was like, did your wife tell 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.640 you to say that? How did you come up with that. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.000 Did you hire a publicist? And he looks at me, 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.520 you know, kind of awkwardly. He says, no, Mike, I 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.760 didn't think about it until I landed on the moon. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.520 I'm like, really yeah, And I'm like, that's exactly what 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.440 I said. Are you kidding me? And he says, Mike, 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.680 if I didn't land on the moon, there'd be no 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:09.840 reason to say anything. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:10.880 Oh. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.679 And then he got serious with me, Craig, and he said, look, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.160 you're new to this business, Mike, but you know this 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.599 is a serious business, and bad things happen when you 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.520 get distracted. Stick to your job, stick to business and 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.000 worry about all that publicity stuff. After he's like you 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.840 got it, I'm like, I got it. So years later, Craig, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.600 I got asked to send the first tweet from space. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.400 Oh that's right, first week from space. Right, and we 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.760 have our final press conference and I get asked, what 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.520 have you thought about what you're going to tweet? And 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.640 I'm like, I channeled the armstrong man. I can picture 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.840 my imo. I feel like I had a crew cut 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.240 like he did. Yeah, I just channeled him, and I said, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.320 I'm not thinking about that. We've got to get the 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.280 space first. If we don't get the space, there's gonna 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.600 be no reason to tweet anything. I'm not worrying about 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:50.800 that at all. I wait till we got I'll worry 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.800 about that when we get there. So we get to space. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.160 I open up the computer and I'm looking at that 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.559 screen and I realized, Craig, that advice I got from 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.720 our hero was the worst advice I ever got in 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.839 my life. I couldn't think of a damn thing. And 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.560 then I'm saying to myself, there's no way he thought 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:06.719 of that. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.319 On the moon. Everyone was listening. Everyone, you're saying, you listening. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.600 Everyone around the world won here totally. Everyone knew where 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.120 he was, who he was, and what he was going 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:15.600 to say. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.520 Here I am float up. A few people knew who 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.520 I was, but no one's really paying attention. You didn't 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.120 know where I was. No one's listening, you know, space, Yeah, 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.120 but I didn't know what. And I'm saying, no one's 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.199 paying attention to me. And I can't think of a thing. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.080 He must have lied to me. You know what I 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.280 wanted to tweet. I wanted to tweat curse you, Neil. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.319 I'm sure you didn't do that I didn't do that. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.400 I wrote what So what I did is I whatever 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.839 came to mind I put it. Launch was awesome. I'm 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.880 feeling great and enjoining the view. The adventure of a 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.840 lifetime has begun. That was on a Monday. On Saturday. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.600 They made fun of me on Saturday Night Live on 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.319 Weekend up Dates. Seth Myers is there. I didn't notice 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.080 what was going on. I'm in space working and he goes, hey, 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.280 we have the first tweet from space, and here it is. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.520 Launch was awesome. In forty years, we've gone from one 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:03.120 giant leap from mankind to launch was awesome. And then 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.840 he continues and he says, I assume if we if 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:07.600 we ever find life in the universe, I assume this 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.400 is how we'll be notified. And it shows my little 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.400 Twitter thing that says, geez dudes, aliens, I don't. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.280 Notice is the way fair. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.079 The way I found fent out about this was my kids, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.160 who are like in middle school in high school. They 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.480 are apparently very excited about this, and so they sent me. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.200 They sent me some email and like, Dad, they made 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:26.960 fun of you on Saturday Night. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.000 Loud, which is kind of awesome, and you gave me a. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.640 Lot of credit and they're like all the kids at 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.200 school loved it. Keep up the good work. I finally 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:33.800 got somebody that. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.400 Got to your kids, so they weren't compressed that you 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:36.520 were going to space. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.000 Did not, they didn't, but they were excited to get that. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.680 I got made fun of for the first tweek, but 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.880 I got that advice from Neil Armstrong. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.920 You know, it's funny. I've met a few of the 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.480 guys that have been on the moon, and a lot 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:57.960 of them have you know, most of them have gone. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:58.920 I just lost a couple. 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.520 Yea, well that didn't ken maddingly Yeah, who didn't walk 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.000 on the moon but went to the moon twice and 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:04.920 then it didn't land. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.400 And Frank Borman yeah, Paula wait just recently died too. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.320 I mean buzz is still he's still around. He's still 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.840 around and crazy aer than a bed bug. But you're 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.200 going to see Charlie Duke later this week. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:18.920 Yeah, if you're in town, you may want to come 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.840 by tomorrow whatever, but he's going to be having to 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:22.280 see him. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.040 He's he was on a policy giving me Jim lovel Yes, 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.360 he's still around. Yeah, an amazing character. Do you know what. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:29.560 I have a story about that. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.480 So I went to the Living Legends of Aviation dinner 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.440 in California a few years ago. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.320 Yeah, have you ever been to that thing? No, I've 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.480 never been. I've never been this. I mean it's crazy. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.880 Was there and Car there and Tom Cruise is there, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.160 and it's like all these like celebrity. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.920 Pilots are there, you know, and never Morton is there. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.000 It's crazy and it's all these like, you know guys 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.600 that flew choppers are nam It's like, it's crazy. And 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.040 the person that was being onner, Jim Lovel's being on 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.560 her nice for you know, bringing the Paul thirteen around 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.120 the moon and bringing it back. And Sally sellen Burger 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.760 is getting is giving him the owner. So so Sully 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.280 gets up and he says that he said, I never 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.680 met uh, never met Jim before this evening, only just 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.240 met him backstage. But he is the gentleman who told 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.200 me everything you need to know about aviation. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.720 M H. I was like, and he's he said, and 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:24.520 here's what it is. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.880 No matter how bad things are, no matter how close 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.160 death may appear, you gotta sound cool on the radio. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.520 You think about it. We have a problem you know. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:38.960 I mean it's not. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.520 It's like you used to me have a problem and 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.400 then selling burger is like this is a bunch of 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.960 It's like, no, I'm going to be in the huts. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.120 Say again, going the huts And what did I mean 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.760