ADRENALINE...
FROM THE GROUND UP
(Anything I've used from the TV show is
owned and copywritten by MTM Enterprises, Inc.)
2nd Episode: "No Fear"
Aired week of Sept 23, 1996
and week of Dec 9, 1996
A MEDICAL EMERGENCY REQUIRES TAMARA TO PERFORM THE FIRST OPERATION IN OUTER SPACE.
Plot: (pasted from the official "The Cape" Web Site)
- Not available.
Here are some frames from the soon to be
famous "Legislative Aid Symposium Scene".
Jack Riles (Adam Baldwin) and Peter Engel (Chad Willett) are giving a Space Station Symposium for a small group of Legislative Aids. I'm the one in the front row, all the way to the left. I'm sitting next to Peter.
My right ear appears repeatedly in this sequence as the camera keeps referring back to some of the Legislative Aids and Peter.
Oooh. There I am again! I look really involved in the Symposium, don't I? Maybe I was considering cutting the Space Station Program or something!
There, I look alive. I think I must've been falling asleep in the previous frame. After all, the Symposium was really not that interesting. Maybe Peter can liven things up a little bit.
Darn, is that a bag under my eye?!? Note to self: Get plenty of sleep before going on National TV.
That's a pretty good shot of Mike peeking out from behind that lady's head. Good job, Mike!
As you can see, Peter did liven up the Symposium. He cracked us up by talking about training for his mission in the swimming pool of his apartment complex. Obviously, this is my best shot. (Any talent scouts out there watching?!?)
PS. For those of you that know her, that's Patricia's head in the third row looking down at her notes.
Later in the show, I walk through the door and almost run smack into Public Affairs Chief, Andrea Wyler (Katie Mitchell). Whew, that was a close one! And for those of you who've asked -- No, that isn't my Franklin Planner in my hand. They wouldn't let me use my own props!
True to life?!?
- The Shuttle carries a series of medical kits called the Shuttle Orbiter Medical
System (SOMS) into orbit for use by two specially trained crew members
(Crew Medical Officers) for each mission. The crew members can use the kits
to deal with both minor and major illness/injury that might typically be seen in
a small emergency center. These include suturing lacerations, giving injections,
using intravenous fluids, antibiotics, and other medications, and diagnosing and
treating a variety of medical events during spaceflight.
Just as crew members can treat common events such as cuts, headaches, and
muscle pain, they also have advanced equipment for CPR and life support on
board the Shuttle in the SOMS. Although equipped with such tools to initially
diagnose and treat most illness or injury, in general, events that would be
severe enough to cause a hospitalization on the ground, such as appendicitis or
a life-threatening cardiac problem a would be cause for shortening the flight of
a Shuttle.
Dave Ward, Orbit 1 Flight Surgeon, STS-79
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Last Revised: Monday September 30, 1996
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