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Expedition One: International Space Station Receives First Long-Term Occupants

Aired November 2, 2000 - 11:09 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: The International Space Station not only got its first long-term occupants today, it has a new name as well.

Joining us with all the details on that, CNN's Keith Oppenheim, joining us from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Keith, what does one do when you move into a brand-new International Space Station? What's moving day like?

KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just like moving into your cabin in the woods, Daryn, you set up house, and that's what they're doing.

Let me show you where I am, Daryn. This is a simulated version of the International Space Station. And it's not exactly the same, but a similar environment. And the crew that has gone there has docked.

I want to show you some great pictures of that. You're also going to see the crew as they were entering the hatch this morning.

The crew is made up of an American commander, Bill Shepherd, and there are a couple of cosmonauts on board as well, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev. And those three will stay on the space station for a good four months, focusing on some science, but mainly they're going to be trying to prepare the space station for more visitors.

Now, let's show you some animation of some of the future things that will happen. There are going to be visitors coming from a shuttle in November, and that crew is going to be installing a huge solar array, which will provide some more power for the station. There's also going to be constant assembly during the next six years, Daryn. So this is animation which shows what that space station will look like. NASA's hoping that they'll get the full job done by the year 2006.

Let's move over to some live pictures from the control room in Houston here. And I should point that this is just where they are monitoring from NASA television. It's really in Russia where the actual mission control is for now, because it's going to take a couple months before they switch that over back to the United States. Now, this is a little bit of a mockup of a health check station, and this is something that the crew is going to have to do regularly to make sure that they're doing fine up there. But if there was an emergency, they have a lifeboat. There's a Soyuz spacecraft, which is docked to the station. And if they need to get back to the planet Earth in a hurry, they can do that -- Daryn.

KAGAN: And that's a good thing to know in case of an emergency.

Give us an idea of the lifestyle on board the space station, for those of us that have ever had to share a dorm room or that small first apartment. I understand these are some pretty close quarters for these guys.

OPPENHEIM: Yes, that's true. The way it's been described to me is that it's like camping. And the interesting thing about the Zvezda module -- that's the Russian-made module which is the main living quarters for this crew -- it was only made with two births for sleeping. The guy who gets the short straw has to find another spot for his sleeping bag, which is sort of vertically strapped against the wall. So that, I think, is a good example of how tight the quarters are.

KAGAN: So if you draw the short straw on Earth, you'd be on the floor. Up in space, you can be up against the wall.

OPPENHEIM: Right.

KAGAN: Keith Oppenheim in Houston. Keith, thank you very much.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: See how that dorm food is.

KAGAN: Yes.

HEMMER: Twelve minutes...

KAGAN: Probably even better than what they have up there.

HEMMER: Could be.

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