Live footage of a preflight interview with (French Canadian) Mission Specialist Julie Payette is seen. The interview addresses many different questions including why Payette wanted to be an astronaut, the events that led to her interest, and her career path. Other interesting information that this one-on-one interview discusses is this logistics and supply mission, why it is important to send equipment to the International Space Station (ISS) before the astronauts, and the Integrated Cargo Carrier. Payette mentions Discovery's anticipated docking with the ISS, the space walk with Mission Specialists Tamara E. Jernigan, and Daniel T. Barry and her responsibility as IV (intra-vehicular) crewmember. She also mentions plans for the supply and equipment transfers, the change out of battery chargers, her involvement in the installation of mufflers, the Canadian Space Vision Systems, and the future automatic docking of the Service Module to the Zarya Module of the ISS. A fly-around mission, and the deployment of the Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Equipment (STARSHINE) are also discussed.
STS-96 Crew Interview: Julie Payette
1999-03-18
Audio-visual
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English
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