WEBVTT

00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:02.014
<v Allard Beutel>To help us
walk through

00:00:02.780 --> 00:00:03.680
<v Allard Beutel>what they're doing
now, what the crew

00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.014
<v Allard Beutel>is up to, we're joined
right now by

00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:07.700
<v Allard Beutel>Colonel Jim Dutton,
who's one

00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:08.480
<v Allard Beutel>of our astronauts,

00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:10.014
<v Allard Beutel>part
of the <c.number>2004</c> class.

00:00:10.780 --> 00:00:11.920
<v Allard Beutel>Jim, thank you
for joining us.

00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:13.640
<v Jim Dutton>It's great to be here,
Allard. Thanks.

00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:14.360
<v Allard Beutel>Well,
if you wouldn't mind,

00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:15.860
<v Allard Beutel>we've got
a couple minutes

00:00:15.860 --> 00:00:16.840
<v Allard Beutel>before we see
the crew, why don't

00:00:16.840 --> 00:00:18.680
<v Allard Beutel>you walk us through
you?

00:00:20.380 --> 00:00:21.940
<v Jim Dutton>Okay.
A little about me:

00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:23.360
<v Jim Dutton>I grew up
in Eugene, Oregon.

00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:24.400
<v Jim Dutton>I joined
the <c.brand>Astronaut</c> <c.brand>Corps</c>

00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:25.200
<v Jim Dutton>about <c.number>four</c> <c.number>years</c> ago,

00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:27.180
<v Jim Dutton>as you said,
<c.number>May</c> <c.number>of</c> <c.number>2004,</c>

00:00:28.040 --> 00:00:29.400
<v Jim Dutton>with the
class

00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:31.800
<v Jim Dutton>we affectionately
call the Peacocks.

00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:34.780
<v Jim Dutton>And my background
is with the <c.brand>Air</c> <c.brand>Force.</c>

00:00:34.780 --> 00:00:35.920
<v Jim Dutton>I was a test pilot,

00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:37.820
<v Jim Dutton>and before that I flew
as an operational

00:00:37.820 --> 00:00:39.420
<v Jim Dutton>pilot
in the <c.brand>F-15</c> <c.brand>Eagle.</c>

00:00:40.620 --> 00:00:43.120
<v Allard Beutel>I have to—you opened
it up, I have to ask.

00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:45.160
<v Allard Beutel>This is what happened:
the classes give

00:00:45.160 --> 00:00:46.880
<v Allard Beutel>themselves different
names, and Peacock.

00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:47.814
<v Allard Beutel>Why a Peacock?

00:00:47.940 --> 00:00:50.060
<v Jim Dutton>Well, we didn't give
ourselves that name.

00:00:50.060 --> 00:00:51.940
<v Jim Dutton>Although I'll say
we took it

00:00:51.940 --> 00:00:54.040
<v Jim Dutton>over an alternative
that we preferred

00:00:54.040 --> 00:00:55.707
<v Jim Dutton>Peacock
to the other one.

00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:57.980
<v Jim Dutton>But
when we first came in,

00:00:57.980 --> 00:00:59.040
<v Jim Dutton>we were told
as a class

00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:01.260
<v Jim Dutton>that we <c.key>would</c> <c.key>not</c>
<c.key>fly</c> on the shuttle,

00:01:01.260 --> 00:01:02.800
<v Jim Dutton>based on the way
things were going

00:01:02.800 --> 00:01:03.920
<v Jim Dutton>and how it looked

00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:05.519
<v Jim Dutton>with the number
of crew members

00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:07.640
<v Jim Dutton>or astronauts
who had not flown yet.

00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.440
<v Jim Dutton>And so there
was also a lot of pomp

00:01:10.440 --> 00:01:12.000
<v Jim Dutton>and circumstance
about our arrival

00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:13.720
<v Jim Dutton>because of the new
vision for going

00:01:13.720 --> 00:01:16.560
<v Jim Dutton>back to the Moon. And
so we were labeled

00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:18.700
<v Jim Dutton>Peacocks because
we're <c.key>all</c> <c.key>show</c>

00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:21.140
<v Jim Dutton>and we don't fly.
So I think we can,

00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:22.560
<v Jim Dutton><c.soft>you</c> <c.soft>know,</c>
take pride in that now

00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:24.120
<v Jim Dutton>that we've got
our <c.key>first</c> <c.key>classmate</c>

00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:24.880
<v Jim Dutton>on this flight,

00:01:24.880 --> 00:01:27.700
<v Jim Dutton>Aki Hoshide,
a Japanese astronaut,

00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:30.400
<v Jim Dutton>and we're going
to start seeing a lot

00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.480
<v Jim Dutton>more of our classmates
on shuttle flights.

00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:33.940
<v Jim Dutton>And they're trying
to get actually all

00:01:33.940 --> 00:01:35.140
<v Jim Dutton>the rookies
in the office,

00:01:35.140 --> 00:01:37.074
<v Jim Dutton><c.key>the</c> <c.key>unflown</c>
<c.key>astronauts,</c> up in

00:01:38.100 --> 00:01:40.567
<v Jim Dutton>one mode or another,
most on shuttle,

00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:42.500
<v Jim Dutton>before we <c.key>retire</c>
<c.key>the</c> <c.key>shuttle.</c>

00:01:42.500 --> 00:01:43.780
<v Allard Beutel>As a way to get
experience to be ready

00:01:43.780 --> 00:01:44.560
<v Allard Beutel>for, obviously,

00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:45.760
<v Allard Beutel>the <c.brand>Constellation</c>
<c.brand>program,</c>

00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.300
<v Allard Beutel>the <c.brand>Orion</c> <c.brand>capsule</c>
and spacecraft.

00:01:47.300 --> 00:01:48.960
<v Jim Dutton>Exactly. We're going
to have a <c.number>five-year,</c>

00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:50.960
<v Jim Dutton><c.soft>roughly,</c>
delay between shuttle

00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:52.820
<v Jim Dutton>and bringing
<c.brand>Orion</c> online,

00:01:52.820 --> 00:01:54.320
<v Jim Dutton>so we want to <c.key>carry</c>
<c.key>as</c> <c.key>much</c> <c.key>experience</c>

00:01:54.320 --> 00:01:56.587
<v Jim Dutton>as we can over
into <c.brand>Constellation.</c>

00:01:57.420 --> 00:01:59.320
<v Allard Beutel>As a matter of fact,
<c.brand>NASA</c> is also

00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:00.520
<v Allard Beutel>right now
actively looking,

00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:02.260
<v Allard Beutel>at least for another
month or so,

00:02:02.260 --> 00:02:03.780
<v Allard Beutel>for a <c.number>2009</c> class.

00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:04.640
<v Jim Dutton>That's correct.

00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:06.240
<v Allard Beutel>I think pretty
probably safe to say

00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:07.000
<v Allard Beutel>that that class

00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:08.160
<v Allard Beutel>will not fly
on a shuttle.

00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:09.620
<v Jim Dutton>That's true.
They are being

00:02:09.620 --> 00:02:11.920
<v Jim Dutton>brought in to actually
fly on station

00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:13.920
<v Jim Dutton>during the interim
before <c.brand>Constellation</c>

00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:14.840
<v Jim Dutton>and then
obviously carry

00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:16.100
<v Jim Dutton>on into <c.brand>Constellation.</c>

00:02:16.100 --> 00:02:17.520
<v Jim Dutton>So, yeah,
it's very exciting.

00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.160
<v Jim Dutton>It'll be a <c.key.number>five-year</c>
<c.key>gap,</c> which is

00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:19.980
<v Jim Dutton>a very long gap,

00:02:19.980 --> 00:02:21.100
<v Jim Dutton>and it's going
to be great

00:02:21.100 --> 00:02:23.567
<v Jim Dutton>to have some new folks
in the office.