![]() All rights reserved.The Howard's mom Big Bang Theory character debuted in The Big Bang Theory season 1, episode 7, "The Dumpling Paradox," clashing with Howard's then-girlfriend Christy (Brooke D'Orsay). Ron helped them out with those questions.Ĭontinue reading the interview at to learn what Mike Massimino had to say about the future of spaceflight, both by NASA and on "The Big Bang Theory."įollow collectSPACE on Facebook and Twitter collectSPACE and editor Robert Pearlman robertpearlman. Because they wanted to know what we would have as books and how you would hold the books. You would speak Russian to the control center.Īnd even the hands were a big thing, too. Massimino: They wanted to know that as well, and that is where Ron Garan helped out, telling them the kind of conversations you'd have and it would be in Russian. Massimino: I don't know about that! I mean I don't make that call, but it could certainly get you excited about going.ĬollectSPACE: How concerned were they about your dialog in the Soyuz? Or where you put your hands as compared to what would happen during an actual mission? ![]() We were in there, I guess, two-and-a-half to three hours in the suit and inside the mockup.ĬollectSPACE: So this could count for you towards training for a future flight on a Soyuz, right? So, they gave us a cooling water bag to wear on our chests to help keep us cool. They weren't as heavy as a real suit but they were still concerned about us getting overheated under the lights and everything. They were not real suits but they were pretty close replicas, as far as how they looked. We arrived, got suited up and they even had a cooling unit for us, too. It was kind like a real launch day, almost. They helped answer a lot of the questions.ĬollectSPACE: So how long were you in the spacesuit and mock Soyuz? So I recruited some help from my friends, Ron Garan and Mike Fossum. I know a little bit about the Soyuz but as I've never flown on it, their questions after a while got to where I had no idea. ![]() ![]() Massimino: Yeah, but as you say, I've never flown on the Soyuz. So were you part of the technical consultants for the set? And then for this, they got a lot of help from NASA to make sure that the set, the costumes and all that stuff looked pretty accurate.ĬollectSPACE: You've flown on the space shuttle but you haven't yet flown on board the Soyuz. They have a consultant, a guy from UCLA, that helps them out for the science stuff. They really try to be very, very accurate in all their stuff, in all the science that they represent on the show. The detail to the set, to the costumes - what we were going to wear - they wanted everything, the patches, the name tags that we were going to wear, every little detail to look as authentic as possible, and what we would be doing before the flight, during the countdown. Were you impressed by how much attention to detail they gave? (Image credit: Mike Massimino (via Twitter as The Soyuz spacecraft set that they built was pretty impressive for TV. Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Massimino (right) poses for a photo with Big Bang Theory star Simon Helberg (center) and Executive Producer Bill Prady at the Paley Center in Los Angeles, Calif.
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