Inside The International Space Station - Episode 4 chapter 1 – mr. fixit

[Mike Massimino] Hi. I'm Mike Massimino and this is "Inside the International Space Station". [Dan Burbank] Doing a little bit of brain surgery on the Space Station. [Mike] Both times I put my foot through the ceiling at my house. [Don Pettit] The toilet broke. [Mike] I'm inside the Flight Control Room where we're getting ready to speak to Dan Burbank and Don Pettit. They're in space and we're going to see what they're up to. Hey Don and Dan. How do you hear? [Dan] Hey Mass, we got you loud and clear. [Mike] We did want to ask you about repairs you might be doing on the station. Now both of you guys have been to my house working. Both times I put my foot through the ceiling in my house in the attic. Dan came over and fixed it. So I've been staying out of the attic until Dan, you come back to Earth. Don, you've helped me with air conditioning problems and my car so we're just really sweating it out in my house until one of you guys at least gets back to Earth to help out again. But, what's going on up there? You're both very handy guys. What's going on up there? What have you guys been doing to fix stuff? [Don] Well, on our holiday weekend here the toilet broke and you can imagine all work comes to a stop on station when the toilet breaks. And so Dan and I spent most, the better part of a day, working on the toilet. There's a lot of downlink video from that so you may want to see it. We were digging down inside the panels in the toilet, working on making sure everything was going to turn out okay. [Dan] And before we did that we spent the better part of the previous week and a half doing a little bit of brain surgery on the space station. We basically, with the ground's guidance and their help, upgraded all the critical computers that operate basically command and control, the guidance navigation computers. So it was a great opportunity to break out tools. Don had an oscilloscope and he was testing individual chips on all these cards as I would pull the box, swap the cards out, the ones he had proved that were good, and right now we're flying on those new computers. [Don] And then it's been garbage week. We're getting ready to burn up another spacecraft. Progress is going to undock. And we load all the stuff in there we don't want anymore, like things that come out from our toilet and other food wrappers and things like that...old clothes. And we round all that stuff up and pack it up in Progress for deorbital cremation. So it's been a garbage week for us. Sometimes, I kind of feel like we're those guys on TV that do the "Dirty Jobs" program. Where we're either working with garbage or working on the toilet or we're doing brain surgery. You know all of those are dirty jobs.