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>> I had looked at pictures
on social media and pictures

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in NASA archives of the earth so
many times, I actually started

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to get worried, what
if I get up there

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and it's just like the pictures?

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I mean, oh, that's going to
be weird if that's the thing

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where I'm like oh, looks
just like the pictures,

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I'm ready to go home now.

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And then on the Soyuz,
my launch vehicle,

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launched with the Russians.

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And on my Soyuz, when I
first got a chance to look

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out my little window, which was
about right here, at the earth,

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there's something about
looking out a round window

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at the curvature of the earth

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that makes it just
more pronounced and --

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and really makes it
have a huge impact.

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I just had this feeling like
I was way up high looking down

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and we were over the ocean and
the blues that I saw, it was --

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I mean it was ridiculous.

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I -- I'd never imagined
in my entire life getting

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to see something that beautiful.

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It was so foreign for the
human mind to look at that,

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to see the total black of space,

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to see the earth
highlighted that way.

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And then I got to see a sunset.

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I had one piece of paper, it
had a picture of my kids on it

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and a few of my flight data file
burn times on it, but I wrote --

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I just took a pencil I
drew like 15 curved lines

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and I just wrote, light blue,
darker blue, pink, purple,

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dark purple, dark, dark purple,
all the way down to the surface

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of the earth at sunset
because the scale of looking

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at a sun refracting through
the atmosphere, it blew me away

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and no picture capturing it.

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There's no high enough
dynamic range of a photo

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to capture what the
human can see.

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So, that first look outside
completely sidelined me.

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I had a GoPro and I made
a recording to my brother

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of no matter how much it costs
in the future, come do this,

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you have to come do this,
I mean it's amazing.

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Over my 6 months in
space, getting to look

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at the earth every single day,

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it shows you something
different.

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Every day, it shows
you that it's alive,

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it's a being just like we are.

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We're guests on this planet
and it is -- it's our mother,

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it's our father, it's our
starship cruising around the sun

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in the middle of
the solar system.

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There was never a moment
that I looked out the window

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and didn't immediately grab
a camera to take a picture

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of something that
our planet was doing,

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it always surprises,
[inaudible].

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I'm a pilot, I'm
not a scientist,

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I'm not a psychiatrist, I'm
not a poet, but certainly,

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when you're in low-earth orbit
looking down at the earth,

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it doesn't matter if you're
a physicist, a schoolteacher,

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a stay-at-home parent, or
maybe you just backpack

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for your whole life, if
you look out, you're going