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Open the pod bay doors Probst.






"One of these days I'm gonna squeeze some nice 20 something buttocks on an island somewhere."



Where's Barry?






Dr. Daniel Barry applied an incredible 13 or so times to become an astronaut.

"The first day I met my wife, I told her I was going to fly in space and she didn't believe me. That was 1976," he recalls.

He called NASA in 1989 after numerous rejections and asked "if they were just deep-sixing the application." He was told to keep trying and was picked in 1992.

Barry, 47 (in 2001), who has a medical degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, worked as a rehabilitation specialist throughout the 1980s with a focus on skeletal muscle and prosthetics. He has five patents for running-shoe technology and medical devices.

This is his third space flight. He will perform two spacewalks to attach equipment to the outside of the international space station.

His two teen-age children worry, especially during the launch. "But we talk about the risk beforehand and ... the things that they love about me are all part and parcel of my love for my job."

Home is South Hadley, Mass.