1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,180 AND LIFT OFF. 2 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,160 [MUSIC] 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,080 I THINK WHAT YOU GET A SENSE OF 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,380 IS JUST HOW AWESOME 5 00:00:16,380 --> 00:00:19,760 THE UNIVERSE IS AND HOW TINY EACH OF US 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,880 ARE IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF OF THE WONDER 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,160 THAT EXISTS OUT THERE. 8 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,780 REALIZING THAT, AND REALIZING JUST HOW 9 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:31,340 OVERWHELMINGLY HUGE THE EARTH IS, HOW 10 00:00:31,340 --> 00:00:33,820 OVERWHELMINGLY THE PHYSICS DOMINATES 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:34,720 WHAT WE'RE DOING, 12 00:00:34,780 --> 00:00:36,880 AND THAT WE'RE LIVING IN IN THIS SOLAR 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,440 SYSTEM GALAXY UNIVERSE, 14 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,840 LETS YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMEPLACE. 15 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:42,840 KIND OF SPECIAL 16 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:44,840 [MUSIC] 17 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,080 TO BE A PART OF THE MISSION THAT SERVES 18 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,440 ON STATION, 19 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:54,960 TO BE PART OF THE MISSION THAT GOES 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,180 EXPLORING SPACE INTO THIS VASTNESS 21 00:00:58,180 --> 00:01:02,720 IS SIMPLY: ONE, AN HONOR BUT TWO, 22 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:04,800 ALMOST MIND-CHANGING, MIND-CHANGING 23 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:05,620 BECAUSE WE HAVE 24 00:01:05,620 --> 00:01:08,080 BUSINESSES WE HAVE MISSIONS HERE, WE'RE 25 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,080 FOCUSED ON ACCOMPLISHING THE NEAR-TERM 26 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:10,799 GOAL. 27 00:01:10,860 --> 00:01:12,560 YOU GET UP THERE AND YOU SEE THE 28 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,240 OVERWHELMING PORTION OF THE EARTH 29 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,080 THE VASTNESS THAT YOU'RE EXPLORING INTO 30 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:17,759 AND YOU GO, "WOW THERE IS JUST 31 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,479 SO MANY QUESTIONS, SO MUCH FOR US TO DO, 32 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,420 SO MUCH FOR US TO BE ABLE TO HELP 33 00:01:22,420 --> 00:01:24,920 OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WITH, 34 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,920 [MUSIC] 35 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,759 WE HAD A SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY ON SPACE 36 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,360 STATION BECAUSE OF THE THE WINDOW 37 00:01:41,380 --> 00:01:42,240 ARRANGEMENTS 38 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,360 TO BE ABLE TO SERIOUSLY GET IMMERSED IN 39 00:01:45,460 --> 00:01:46,320 THE IMAGERY. 40 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:49,520 GOING TO THE WINDOWS TO WATCH AREAS THAT 41 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:50,880 WERE OF GREAT INTEREST 42 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,640 PATAGONIA FOR INSTANCE IS JUST A 43 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,000 BEAUTIFUL, RICH 44 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,560 ENVIRONMENT OF EARTH TONES, AS WELL AS 45 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,960 THE GLACIERS, THE WATER. 46 00:01:58,980 --> 00:02:01,520 IT IS JUST PICTURESQUE TO THE POINT 47 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,200 WHERE YOU GO, "I NEED TO GO VISIT THAT 48 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:03,759 PLACE." 49 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,640 YOU WANT TO FIND THINGS ON THE EARTH 50 00:02:06,660 --> 00:02:07,120 BECAUSE 51 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,879 IT IS, UM, MEMORABLE BUT ALSO 52 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:12,640 INSIGHTFUL. FOR INSTANCE, YOU'RE GOING 53 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:14,640 OVER A TAN AND YOU GO, "OH YOU KNOW WHAT, I 54 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:16,760 BET YOU I'M CLOSE TO THE PYRAMIDS." 55 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:17,520 AND SO YOU GO TO THE WINDOW TO TAKE A 56 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,680 LOOK AT IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO PYRAMIDS AND 57 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:20,180 THEN 58 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,959 TAKE SOME SHOTS THAT YOU CAN TAKE HOME. 59 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,080 THERE ARE AREAS OF THE WORLD THAT HAVE 60 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,319 VOLCANOES AND YOU JUST HAPPEN TO CATCH 61 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,879 IN ONE PHOTOGRAPH, TWO OR THREE ACTIVE 62 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:30,160 VOLCANOES. 63 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,040 IT'S A NICE EXPERIENCE TO BE ABLE TO 64 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,720 LOOK OUT THE WINDOW AND GO, "WOW WE 65 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,280 REALLY ARE SEEING THE LIVING EARTH, 66 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:38,560 LIVING." 67 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:40,319 AND BEING ABLE TO BE A PART OF IT FROM 68 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:41,800 SUCH A VANTAGE POINT. 69 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,800 [MUSIC] 70 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,480 WE SAW HAITI'S TROUBLES WHILE WE WERE UP 71 00:02:50,580 --> 00:02:52,480 THERE. THE 72 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,560 GULF OIL SPILL FROM THE HORIZON OCCURRED 73 00:02:54,620 --> 00:02:55,599 WHILE WE WERE UP THERE. 74 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,959 A NUMBER OF HURRICANES, OR TROPICAL 75 00:02:58,980 --> 00:02:59,920 CYCLONES 76 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,080 OCCURRED WHILE WE WERE UP THERE. YOU KNOW 77 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,680 THERE'S A TON OF ENERGY IN THERE 78 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,840 YOU KNOW IT'S HEADING TOWARDS POPULATED 79 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,600 AREAS, IT'S NOT BEAUTIFUL 80 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,960 AT THAT POINT, IT'S UTTER RESPECT, 81 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,540 IS WHAT I WOULD CATEGORIZE IT 82 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:14,540 [MUSIC] 83 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,200 I GOT VISITED BY THREE SPACE SHUTTLES 84 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:24,480 SEVERAL OF THE CREW MEMBERS 85 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,180 NEVER LOOKED OUTSIDE THE CUPOLA BEFORE. 86 00:03:27,180 --> 00:03:28,560 I WOULD BRING THEM ONE AT A TIME TO THE 87 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:29,599 CUPOLA. 88 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:31,440 TELL THEM CLOSE THEIR EYES, OPEN UP ALL 89 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,840 THE WINDOWS, THE SHUTTERS ON THE WINDOWS, 90 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:36,000 AND THEN TELL THEM TO OPEN UP THEIR EYES. 91 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:38,000 AND THAT INSTANT WHEN YOU'RE OVERWHELMED 92 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,920 WITH THAT VISTA, WHEN YOUR EYES SEE 93 00:03:39,940 --> 00:03:42,740 NOTHING BUT THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH, 94 00:03:42,740 --> 00:03:44,240 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, 95 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:45,519 EVERY SINGLE CREW MEMBER THAT I BROUGHT 96 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,000 IN THERE FOR THAT EXPOSURE, CRIED. 97 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,680 IT IS HEART-STOPPING, IT IS SOUL-POUNDING