And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I’ve been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

And since this is a difficult position to reach, we will be using the arm as a support for one of the EVA crewmembers in order to reach this position.

Because, of course, almost all of the rest of the crewmembers will be pretty busy with this, with the activity of the rendezvous and docking.

And this will be a very delicate task because, of course, again we are moving a very massive object and we are moving against this station.

Well, when I was a teenager, my uncle used to give me science book, and he also gave me the first telescope. And I started to look at the stars.

Basically checking the, some of the spec on the computer and also using the visual cue that we have in order to help him in driving the arm.

Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.