off and of course bond is quite pleased to have somebody with the stature of an astronaut like scott carpenter who you remembers the second american to orbit the earth and 92 tataris carpenter a few years later getting in on sealab, and what i'm going to do is because of the miracles of the various technology is take you inside of sealab to come as a you can kind of see what it looks like because this is all and familiar in the compartment all going into the hatch water stop, the doorstep so let me see if we can get to the scene. can we see that all right? may be dim the lights little. >> [inaudible] >> i think we can see that. it will go all right. inside the glove there is scott carpenter. it's a prototype. the second one built. there's wires hanging around everywhere, there's about as much space to side of the camera going that that way. there are ten guys on the team so it is a good crowd for a small space like that and it's hot and humid and that's why you see guys in bathing suits and mabey t-shirts, and i'm going to play this along. >> the sophisticated technology of our age. >> so carp

it off, and bond's quite pleased to have somebody of -- with the stature of an astronaut like scott carpenter, who is the second american to orbit the earth in 196 2. so here's carpenter getting in on sealab. and what i'm going to do is, through the miracles of various technology, take you inside sea lab ii, so you can see what it looks like. this stuff is unfamiliar, this business of a pressurized compartment and going in and out of a hatch where the water stands at the doorstep, and so let me see if we can get to the scene here. all right. can we see that at all in dim the lights a little? >> i think we can kind of see that. i think it will go all right. inside the lab, there's scott carpenter, it's a prototype. really only the second one ever built. kind of wires hanging around everywhere. there's about as much space to this side of the camera as there is going that way. that's the bunk area in the back. there were ten guys in each of these teams so quite a good crowd for a small pace -- spice like that. it's hot and humid in there, that's why you see guys in bathing suits and maybe t-shir

there's scott carpenter. and i'm going to just play you a brief clip here again from the reel-to-reel tapes. these tapes haven't even been heard, i think, since they were recorded. i mean, i was dusting them off out of boxes. i had to listen to all of them just to find out what they were, listening for nuggets, learning more myself along the way. but again, this is barth as a younger man who has been through all these genesis experiments and completed sealab i and is now on one of the teams of aquanauts for sealab ii. and during a press conference a question is asked, well, why did you volunteer for this program? and you'll hear dr. bond kind of refers the question to barth at this point. >> bob barth has been with the expeoplal program -- experimental program and the operational perhaps longer than any other man in it. bob, would you care to pass on a word why you are here? >> i got started with the program working with dr. bond in new london. i don't really recall when i volunteered. i don't believe i have

she recovered scott carpenter's mercury mission when he splashed down in the ocean and also gemini mission of gus grissom and john young. so we do have some space history here. jenna: if i come and visited it the intrepid, what kind of access to the shuttle will i have? >> you will walk into the building where we are right now. you can walk right underneath her. we will prop her up 10 feet high. you will be able to get underneath and walk around and really get a sense of the size. most people don't realize how big this thing is? jenna: can i sit on the driver's seat? >> no, we won't allow anybody inside. i have to go back to the national treasure we have to preserve. no inside access allowed. jenna: no inside rides or anything like that. what does this mean to you as someone that loves history and aware of very ages and military history to have the shuttle under your watch? >> i'm so jazzed it is a dream come true. jenna: you get to sit in the driver's seat, come on? >> for certain maintenance issues i may have to get inside there but we'll see. jenna: i knew there was something. what do y