i came down in a different soyuz, tma-6. so the first thing i had to do when we docked was take my space suit and seat and move it to the soyuz here. that was going to be my means of egress in case of emergency. so, we slowly back away and we do about an orbit and a half. now remember, this is a vacuum. we are traveling over 17,000 miles an hour. but when we get down to that 100 or 60 mile layer we talked about earlier, you will encounter friction. so what we do is, we jettison the engine, and also that habitat module, the spherical section. that is loaded with all the garbage and stuff we want to throw away. we are in this dissent -- descent moducle which has a heat shield on top. as we enter the atmosphere things will heat up to thousands of degrees. anything without the heat shield will burn up. in order for us to land in kazakhstan, we have to enter the atmosphere somewhere over argentina. once you are in, you have very little control, once you start getting into the atmosphere. we had a little tumbling. we had an air le

i came down in a different soyuz. the first thing i had to do when we docked was take my seat and move it to the soyuz here. so, we slowly back away and we do about an orbit and a half. we are traveling over 17,000 miles an hour. when we get to that 60 mile layer, you will encounter friction. that habitat module, that is loaded with garbage we want to throw away. then, another module which as a heat module on top. anything on the heat shield will burn up. we have to enter the atmosphere somewhere over argentina. once you are in, you have very little control once you start getting into the atmosphere. we had a little tumbling. we had an air leak where we lost 30% of our air. i did not think it was a big deal at the time because this is the sort of thing you rehearse. in trading, it shows you what you are supposed to do when your air supply is going down. all i was supposed to do whiskey my mouth shut and my hands off until the commander said, "o xygen." typical russian thing -- they have a lot of spring force so you do

just like when i was chiming up the soyuz -- climbing up the soyuz rocket when we were about to launch, i was saying, god, i feel okay now, but what if i get up there d i freak out? fortunately, i didn't. my fear was always before the eventnot, fortunately, during the the event. i'llet you read this about the iss. i think most of the people in this room know this stuff. just that, y know, the space station is roughly 240 miles above the earth, it varies a bit, and al that you orbit every 90 minutes. soou get to see 16 sunrises and sunsets every day. this is what a soyuz looks like being pulled out to the launch pad. i had 30 friends and family come over and you can see ross cosmos they're a little less formal about the whole deal than nasa would be. they actually let people get up and touch the rocket while t being towed out. being my a and a lot of you, can you imagine saluting a ruian general? [laughter] and that's, you know, growing up in the '50s and '60s? heresy, t there i am, you know just before our launch. russians, the more kind of- they're more kind of ceremonious about it. a

i came down in a different soyuz, tma-6. first thing i had to do when we docked was take my seat and move it to the soyuz here. that was going to be my means of egress in case of emergency. so, we slowly back away and we do about an orbit and a half. remember, this is a vacuum. we are traveling over 17,000 miles an hour. when we get down to that 100 or 60 mile layer we talked about earlier you will encounter , friction. what we do is, we jettison the engine, and also that habitat module, the spherical section. that is loaded with garbage we want to throw away. then, another module which as a heat module on top. as we enter the atmosphere things will heat up to thousands of degrees. anything without the heat shield will burn up. in order for us to land in kazakhstan we have to enter the , atmosphere somewhere over argentina. once you are in, you have very little control, once you start getting into the atmosphere. we had a little tumbling. we had an air leak where we lost 30% of our air. i did not think it was a big deal at t

we spent two days living on the soyuz. we docked at the space station. i was surprised about the combination of familiar and alien looking out the windows. if you look out at what you can see on the vehicle you are in, the space station is made out of two components. one is highly machined industrial, gear work and solar panels and materials. those things look technical. unlike an airplane that needs a sleek body around it, these are exposed mechanics. on top of that, in many areas, there are these thermal protections and shields that are blankets of materials that are handstitched around all of the parts. it looks like grandma was invited over to make a quilt. those things in juxtaposition i found fascinating. unlike earth -- even in this room, the way i can see you is the reflections of the bright lights on me and i get that backscatter. on earth, there is scattering lights all over the place. if you want dramatic wedding you have to create contrast -- magic lighting -- dramatic lighting, you have to create contrast. if you look at an aluminum pole, on

kelly will return in march, 2016. -- soyuz rocket march 22nd. kelly will return in march, 2016. thanks for watching wusa9 news at 5:00. >>> wusa9 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> reporter: i'm surae chinn in washington. the mayor's office releases new details on that deadly smoke incident on the metro. >> reporter: a half dozen people have signed onto of a lawsuit against metro in that trapped train tragedy and one of the plaintiffs pinpoints what could be the cause of this, the story coming up. >> reporter: a firestorm of reaction to our report on the montgomery county parents under investigation for child neglect for letting they are two children walk around their neighborhood unaccompanied by an adult. i'm andrea mccarren. i'll have a followup straight ahead. >>> the father of the man accused of plotting to blow up the u.s. capitol describes the suspect as a peace loving mama's boy. thanks for being here. i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. of course, federal authorities portray 20-year-old christopher cornell as an islamic terrorist sympathizer determined to kill. 20-ye

when i flew the russian soyuz many first learn russian and operate this vehicle in a language that i didn't start studying until i was 35. then i've had a chance to fly in space three times and eventually command the international space station. i worked in a high school gaining medical schools school credits. i helped film imax movies, i'm an imax cameraman of all things. to go right on the edge of what we're doing as a species -- >> it takes a special person to be an astronaut. >> the selection process to become an astronaut, is on the edge of impossible for sure. when i applied there were 5300 people sent in their resumes and they chose four of us, three of us who flew in space one lost his medical unfortunately. those are impossible odds, a tiny subsaid of humanity. but we need the right combination of physical health and raw mental ability and proven ability to make good decisions. and we bet everything on the astronauts. you know, we're going to spend all of this time and money training them. and then we're going to launch them in a rocket ship and count on them do all of these

relies on russia to send american astronauts on the soyuz. casting around $70 million a seat for each astronaut. china is working on building its own space station. and it has set its sights landing on the moon and collecting samples. competing with u.s. companies. the united states still pumps the most money into its programs at $42 billion in 2013. europe and russia come in a loose second with around $5 billion, followed by china at 3.5 billion, and japan at 2.5 billion. india has a small space budget. it has not deterred the country from making huge leaps. >> lift off normal. india launched an orbiter in 2013 on its first track and on a shoe string budget of $75 million compared to 671 million for a similar mission. >> the success of our programme. it is a signing symbol of what we are capable of. >>> well it's hard to believe we live in an era where we can talk about sending a man to mars and struggle to solve down to earth problems like urban blight. we have a ground-level view from the streets of detroit where they are working on soluti

his capsule that came back from space, the tiny soyuz capsule is in the intrepid museum on the west side you want to see how small it was. greg olsen. [applause] >> thank you.

i have done how many soyuz launches. you want to try to tell the story in a unique and challenging way. that can be difficult when it's repetitive. it is very exciting to have different opportunities. this is out on a boat in the ocean getting some shots around sunrise. a remote set up. i was so happy they put that sign there. i started dipping my 10 oh into infrared. this is false color infrared remote camera shot. i'm still working on that a little bit and will make it better next time. -- i started dipping my toe into infrared. i went to retrieve this remote and was happy. i was fortunate enough to go over to japan for the launch of the gpm spacecraft. i had never been to japan before. i always wanted to go. i had an incredible expense there. i really enjoyed it. not unlike our visitor center. it's interesting to see what similar and different. just driving around you see space related themes everywhere. h2 a rocket. it is a beautiful rocket. it was gorgeous. there were servers out there earlier. i was upset that i mi

. >> i peeked as a cub scout, i was a proud cub sought soyuz to quip that mother has gray hair because she was the den mother. >> it has not been a good year for the obama administration. 2014 riddled with scandals from the obamacare architect are americans stupid to the irs targeting scandal. >> the irs has broken laws and the american people need to-to-redress this grievance. >> every week, every month that this goes on, we uncover more and more information and the furnace gets hotter. >> there are a range of investigations going on across capitol hill and throughout our federal government looking into the irs scandal. >> the irs conduct was intentional and deliberate and done many times. >> this is taking scandal at a whole new level of the country to have a president and administration using the irs to target citizens. >> >> we now have lois lerner as a criminal con spirit in this. >> koskinen told the committee we would have all of the emails without any hesitation, without any delay. we found out earlier this month that in fact two years worth of emails that we were requesting we

i think even getting me to the top of the soyuz rocket, i would be suffering from so much vertigo, i wouldn't be going anywhere. so no, i'm not made of the right stuff. i am pretty much, i'm 98% a rock star. [laughter] >> well, your flute has certainly been up to space and you and your astronaut friend, cady coleman, during a flight duet in 2011. could you tell us a little bit about that experience and then do the honor of introducing cady to our audience of explorers and astronauts today? >> i certainly will. i think someone on the radio world in texas who knew a friend or got to know a friend of a friend of cady's, had a relationship, passed the word to me, but she was a keen amateur flute player. maybe i want to get in touch with her which i did and it was arranged that she would take not only my flute, but her flute because i pointed in the right direction to spend her entire annual astronaut salary of buying a shiny new flute to take into the i.s.s. mission with her. so she has my flute, her flute she also had a flute from one of the chieftains, an irish folk band and another me

. >> they will blast off to the space station aboard a soyuz rocket in march. >>> a volcano erupted in now the largest volcanic eruption in 200 years. the lava field has been erupting since august and it's causing several new land formations. according to nasa, the field is now larger than the island of manhattan. some experts predict lava could continue to flow for years. >> got to make that little kileaua thing look like a hibatchi out there. >> like nothing. >> nothing. >> all right. >>> you know, even when it's cloudy, even in january, we still hit 60. not a bad place to live. 61 on average throughout the bay area. that's chilly for us. san francisco is popular because everybody and their mother is in a car trying to get in the city right now. this is the bay bridge and even the fast-pass lanes are very backed up and if you are paying the toll cash, hope you didn't have a 7:00 dinner reservationful you will be late. santa rosa 51 degrees. overnight tonight, that blanket of cloud cover will prevent us from dropping down to the 30s. friday morning in vallejo 44. redwood city 45. paci

i have done how many soyuz launches. you want to try to tell the story in a unique and challenging way. that can be difficult when it's repetitive. it is very exciting to have different opportunities. this is out on a boat in the ocean getting some shots around sunrise. a remote set up. i was so happy they put that sign there. i started dipping my 10 oh into infrared. this is false color infrared remote camera shot. i'm still working on that a little bit and will make it better next time. -- i started dipping my toe into infrared. i went to retrieve this remote and was happy. i was fortunate enough to go over to japan for the launch of the gpm spacecraft. i had never been to japan before. i always wanted to go. i had an incredible expense there. i really enjoyed it. not unlike our visitor center. it's interesting to see what similar and different. just driving around you see space related themes everywhere. h2 a rocket. it is a beautiful rocket. it was gorgeous. there were servers out there earlier. i was upset that i mi