Mark Kelly

You could put people on it.

You could move modules around.

And it had an airlock where people could go outside.

So best spaceship ever built, in my opinion.

Decent rocket ship.

Horrible airplane.

What airplane have you ever flown?

Something like that?

54 days, all my flights went to the space station.

My first flight, we brought up a lot of cargo and people.

So a lot of my time there was spent transferring that cargo.

But first, before you transferred the cargo, you had to take the module out of the payload bay with the robotic arm, which I did.

I was one of the robotic arm operators.

And you had to connect that module to the space station.

So you got to do that.

And then you got to open the hatch and there's all kinds of work.

And then you got to transfer thousands and thousands of pounds of cargo, put it all in the right place.

And then you got to put that module back into the space shuttle payload bay.

On my second mission, it was the return to flight mission after the Columbia accident was the second one.

So we had to test all this new capability.