The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.