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Leland Melvin and Hans Schlegel interviews - ask a question
by
kimmern123
on 10 Mar, 2008 18:17
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Hi!
I'm interviewing Leland and Hans tomorrow, again for the Norwegian spaceflight magazine. Like with the Pam Melroy interview, I'd like to give the members of this site the opportunity to ask a few questions. It's up to you if you wish to post in this thread or send me a PM.
Keep in mind though, I can't guarantee an answer to each question. The interviews aren't that long and from experience, the astronauts usually takes time with each question. I think that's great as the answers are always so wonderful. That also means that there is a limited amount of questions that can be asked.
Have a nice day!
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#1
by
sam2007
on 10 Mar, 2008 18:30
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Hi kimmern123,
thanks for the opportunity. I take it from the ESA web-site that they plan to start a selection of European Astronauts after the docking of Columbus and after launch of ATV, which is basically today. Could you ask Hans what he knows about the status of the selection?
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#2
by
on 10 Mar, 2008 18:46
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What about asking Hans how he feels with ESA now a part of the ISS and what they will contribute?
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#3
by
ShuttleDiscovery
on 10 Mar, 2008 18:55
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Ask Hans how he feels flying again after so long and what felt different this time in terms of being on the shuttle?
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#4
by
apollo13
on 10 Mar, 2008 18:57
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Ask Leland,
How does it feel, from being a basketball player, to being a NASA astronaut?
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#5
by
ShuttleDiscovery
on 10 Mar, 2008 19:10
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apollo13 - 10/3/2008 8:57 PM
Ask Leland,
How does it feel, from being a basketball player, to being a NASA astronaut?
Um, I think it was an American rules football player...
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#6
by
apollo13
on 10 Mar, 2008 21:17
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ShuttleDiscovery - 10/3/2008 4:10 PM
apollo13 - 10/3/2008 8:57 PM
Ask Leland,
How does it feel, from being a basketball player, to being a NASA astronaut?
Um, I think it was an American rules football player...
No it was basketball, I read his bio. :bleh:
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#7
by
kimmern123
on 10 Mar, 2008 21:31
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apollo13 - 11/3/2008 12:17 AM
ShuttleDiscovery - 10/3/2008 4:10 PM.
apollo13 - 10/3/2008 8:57 PM
Ask Leland,
How does it feel, from being a basketball player, to being a NASA astronaut?
Um, I think it was an American rules football player...
No it was basketball, I read his bio. :bleh:
Then you read wrong because his bio says he played in the NFL, which of course means football. The bio also says he participated in a few football camps, but it doesn't say anything about basketball.
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#8
by
Endeavour118
on 10 Mar, 2008 22:01
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My Questions
For Leland did you try and look for any places that are significant to you ie: place of birth home town ETC
For hans What did it feel like flying in space now than when you did back in 1993
Both: do you think you will be around for orion?
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#9
by
brahmanknight
on 10 Mar, 2008 23:44
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It was football, I can assure you.
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#10
by
apollo13
on 11 Mar, 2008 14:33
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lo...I read it..yeah, it was Football..sorry..
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#11
by
kimmern123
on 11 Mar, 2008 15:11
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Okay, that's it, the interviews are done! It was quite an experience. I had miscalculated the time, since we haven't started daylight saving here in Norway yet so I suddenly got a call from Hans Schlegel wondering if I were to speak with him at that time. Both he and Leland were terrific!! They were both very, very nice and took time with each question. The people at NASA, both astronauts and non-astronauts never stops amazing me.
I'll see when I can post the answers here.
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#12
by
finduz
on 11 Mar, 2008 15:31
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Woa, looking forward to see the answers.
*misunnelig*
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#13
by
jacqmans
on 10 Apr, 2008 13:59
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ok a month has now past, and when can we see the interview, or see the asnwers ??
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#14
by
on 10 Apr, 2008 14:51
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jacqmans - 10/4/2008 8:59 AM
ok a month has now past, and when can we see the interview, or see the asnwers ??
I talked to Leland the other day. He said that the thing he wasn't expecting about being in space was being hungry all the time.
(that's all I know about the flight - mostly we talk about our dogs.)
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#15
by
kimmern123
on 26 Apr, 2008 15:28
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bhankiii - 10/4/2008 4:51 PM
jacqmans - 10/4/2008 8:59 AM
ok a month has now past, and when can we see the interview, or see the asnwers ??
I talked to Leland the other day. He said that the thing he wasn't expecting about being in space was being hungry all the time.
(that's all I know about the flight - mostly we talk about our dogs.)
I'll post some answers in just a second.
That's funny (about the dogs), that was exactly what Leland and I ended up talking about at the end too :laugh:
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#16
by
kimmern123
on 26 Apr, 2008 15:36
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Jacqmans had a great question about the crew patch that I asked Leland:
"We all kind of agreed we wanted something very simple and also tie it somehow to the future of exploration. So we came up with the sailing ship going from east to west and then we continuing the journey with exploration flying from west to east, to the International Space Station. So it was sort of closing the circle on travel and, you know, now bringing a new laboratory module that's going to bring new research that's going to benefit all of human kind"
