Bill Shepherd
Bill Shepherd
William Shepherdis an American astronaut, commander of the Expedition One crew on the International Space Station...
ready
We were technically ready to come home, but we're still going through a lot of details.
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.
everybody forward good great job looking
We're having a pretty good day in orbit. We're getting a lot done. Sergei and Yuri are doing a great job as everybody told me, and we're looking forward to a good docking tomorrow.
fun glad load ourselves running
We really had to load ourselves down on the treadmill. Running on it was not a lot of fun but I think we're all glad that we did it now that we're back on the Earth.
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.
coffee couple cups life next normal
I was pretty depressed, ... But we had a couple cups of coffee and thought about it and got up the next day and life was normal again.
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.
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.
good ride rocket ship thankful
When you ride a good rocket ship to orbit, you have a lot to be thankful for.
exercise experience good
We're doing very well, actually. Our pre-flight and in-flight experience -- getting good exercise has really helped.
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,
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.