Journey to Space Page #2

including breakthroughs

in water purification

and robotic microsurgery.

But most important, the ISS

is our springboard to the future,

giving us the knowledge and confidence

to sustain human life

as we explore deep space.

# Everyone is helpful #

# Everyone is kind... #

Life on ISS is all about getting

the job done and having a little fun.

# Everyone is lucky #

# Everyone is so kind #

# On the road to Shambala... #

And nationality is mostly

about tasting each other's food.

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah #

# Ah, ooh, ooh, ooh #

# Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah #

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... #

Through three decades

of camaraderie and dedication,

355 people rode the shuttle into history.

They circled the Earth 21,000 times,

and it all came to seem routine....

until it wasn't.

...one minute, 15 seconds.

Velocity 2,900 feet per second.

Altitude nine nautical miles.

Downrange distance seven nautical miles.

This shuttle mission will launch...

My God!

There's been an explosion.

Flight controllers here looking

very carefully at the situation.

Obviously a major malfunction.

In two accidents that stunned the world,

we lost 14 astronauts.

It was a sobering reminder

that every space flight

is charged with potential danger.

They had a hunger to explore the universe

and discover its truths.

They wished to serve, and they did.

They were pioneers.

The future doesn't belong

to the fainthearted.

It belongs to the brave.

The world mourned, but pushed on,

because the accomplishments

of the space shuttle

and the International Space Station

were full of life-changing promise.

In memory of our lost heroes,

the global space community

pulled together to reignite

the future of both programs.

Who could ask

for a better ending to my career

as an astronaut than getting to fly

the last shuttle mission on Atlantis,

and a final visit to the ISS.

Atlantis launch director,

air to ground one.

Atlantis go.

And so, for the final time, Fergie, Doug,

Sandy and Rex, good luck, Godspeed,

and have a little fun up there.

We're not ending the journey today, Mike,

we're completing a chapter of

a journey that will never end.

You and the thousands of men and women

who gave their hearts,

souls and their lives

for the cause of exploration,

have rewritten history.

Let's light this fire one more time, Mike.

Though the shuttles no longer fly,

I never miss a chance to see Atlantis

at the Kennedy Space Center.

But I came to KSC to get a look

at the next big step

in deep-space exploration,

and it's called Orion.

Here, in the giant operations

and checkout clean room,

the new Orion multi-purposed crew vehicle

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