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>> On the day of the spacewalks,
I remember I was over the hatch,

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and they said, "Open the
hatch," and so I opened it up

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and it was daytime, and
the only thing I could look

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at was straight down
at the Earth.

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And for 10 minutes, I just
watched the Earth going

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by below me, and the only thing
separating it was just my visor,

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and it was really incredible.

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And then, we exited, you
know, they said, "Go ahead

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and exit the space
station," and I remember,

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that was the first time I
really got the sensation

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that I was being pulled by
gravity, I was close to Earth,

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and I was very reliant on
physics at that moment,

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because I was holding on to
the space station with one hand

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and my feet were dangling.

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I remember, you know, not
just through my visor,

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but looking down and just, you
just see feet and then Earth,

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and you're holding on
to the space station

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and it was just incredible.

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Everything looked
so large, but again,

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the most significant
realization, to me,

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was looking out and realizing
not how far I was from Earth,

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but how close I was to Earth,
and how connected I was

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to Earth, and how we on the
space station plus everybody

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on Earth and this planet is
actually so small compared

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to this vastness of outer space.

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We have a small amount of
gravity that keeps us in orbit

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around the Earth, and
I was keenly aware

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that Earth was holding on to us.

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We were attached to Earth.

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What was amazing to me was
looking the other direction

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and looking out into deep
space, and it was infinite.

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And I realized, you know, as
I had one hand on the side

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of space station and we were
both orbiting the Earth,

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I felt like I was very connected
to Earth, like it was mine.

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There was some ownership there,
and not my hometown or my city

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or what I was familiar
with, but the entire Earth.

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I felt an ownership
and a kindred spirit

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with every part of it.

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You do feel this closeness
to every human on Earth.

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You have this really
distinct recognition

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that every single person you
will ever meet, you have more

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in common with than you do
different, no matter what.

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Having been part of
a program that takes

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so many people working together
and doing the right thing,

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and you go, wow, look what
we can do when we focus

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on that majority of us that are
alike, that have a common dream,

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no matter where we grow up.

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Everybody looks up
at the sky and says,