A Conversation with an Astronaut

Captain Lee Morin is a NASA astronaut who flew on the April 2002 Atlantis shuttle mission.

Forty years of space exploration have not dimmed humanity's fascination with the project. Today's astronauts are preparing the International Space Station to serve as a long-term base for scientists who will probe the outer reaches of space. Astronaut Lee Morin explains how his work and that of the Atlantis shuttle mission of 2002 advanced this effort.