1 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,360 THE BUG FOR SPACE REALLY BIT ME WHEN I CAME 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,799 DOWN TO VISIT MY GRANDPA, DOWN HERE IN HOUSTON. 3 00:00:10,799 --> 00:00:14,120 SO, I SAW THE BIG OLD SATURN V ROCKET 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,820 SITTING ON ITS BELLY OUT THERE. 5 00:00:15,820 --> 00:00:19,420 AND JUST THOUGHT, "MAN, IF HUMANITY CAN DO 6 00:00:19,420 --> 00:00:21,480 SOMETHING THIS AMAZING, THIS AWESOME, I WANT 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,250 TO BE A PART OF IT." 8 00:00:23,250 --> 00:00:25,240 AND I JUST FELL MORE IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA 9 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:28,000 OF SPACE AND BEING A PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,400 THAN MYSELF. 11 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,600 THE THOUGHT OF ACTUALLY GETTING TO SPACE, 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,260 I COULDN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THAT. 13 00:00:43,260 --> 00:00:47,080 YOU WALK UP TO THIS-THIS ROCKET THAT'S COVERED 14 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,720 IN FROST FROM THE COLD FUEL INSIDE, AND IT'S 15 00:00:50,729 --> 00:00:53,699 CREAKING AND GROANING AND, KIND OF ALIVE. 16 00:00:53,699 --> 00:00:55,860 AND YOU'RE LIKE "WELL, THAT'S PRETTY COOL 17 00:00:55,860 --> 00:00:58,550 BUT, AH, THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING TO CANCEL, 18 00:00:58,550 --> 00:00:59,550 IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. 19 00:00:59,550 --> 00:01:01,380 YOU KNOW, I'VE DONE SO MANY SIMS, AND IT JUST 20 00:01:01,380 --> 00:01:03,390 CAN'T BE REAL. 21 00:01:03,390 --> 00:01:05,180 THERE'S NO WAY I'M GOING TO GO TO SPACE." 22 00:01:05,180 --> 00:01:09,150 BUT THEN WHEN, NO KIDDING, IT-IT LIGHTS OFF. 23 00:01:09,150 --> 00:01:11,820 AND YOU FEEL THE RUMBLE AND THEN YOU START 24 00:01:11,820 --> 00:01:16,160 TO MOVE.AND THAT, KIND OF JUST CONSTANT, SMOOTH, 25 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,960 ACCELERATION PULLING YOU BACK IN THE SEAT. 26 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:22,240 EVERYTHING COMES TO LIFE ON THE PANELS, YOU 27 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,140 SEE ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE SEEN A HUNDRED 28 00:01:24,140 --> 00:01:25,750 TIMES IN SIMS. 29 00:01:25,750 --> 00:01:30,660 IN ONE INSTANT ALL OF THAT THAT I FELT WAS 30 00:01:30,660 --> 00:01:33,270 UNIMAGINABLE, BECAME REAL. 31 00:01:33,270 --> 00:01:36,000 AND IT WAS JUST, IT WAS A MAGICAL THING I'LL 32 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,500 JUST NEVER FORGET. 33 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:50,480 YOU KNOW, WE'RE SCIENTISTS, AND ENGINEERS 34 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,220 AND PILOTS, AND DOCTORS, WE'RE NOT POETS,, 35 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:53,840 BUT WE SURE TRY TO BE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO 36 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:59,100 SHARE, AS BEST YOU CAN, THE EXPERIENCE THAT-THAT 37 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:00,520 YOU'VE SEEN AND FELT. 38 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,520 I THINK I TOLD MY WIFE THAT, ON OUR-ONCE I 39 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:05,970 GOT ONBOARD THAT I THOUGHT IT WAS A, "IT'S 40 00:02:05,970 --> 00:02:09,100 A BURRITO OF AWESOMENESS SMOTHERED IN AWESOME 41 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:10,140 SAUCE, BABY. 42 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:12,340 IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL." 43 00:02:12,349 --> 00:02:15,240 IT WAS JUST THE BEAUTY OF BEING THERE YOURSELF, 44 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,680 WITH YOUR OWN EYES AND SEEING IT. 45 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,900 ONE THING THAT I WOULD LOVE TO DO WHILE ON ORBIT 46 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:28,940 WAS, THERE WAS A WINDOW IN ONE OF THE RUSSIAN 47 00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:30,420 MODULES THAT LOOKED, KIND OF OUT THE BACK 48 00:02:30,420 --> 00:02:31,959 OF THE STATION. 49 00:02:31,959 --> 00:02:35,020 AND I'D GO SIT THERE, AND I'D LET-I'D TURN 50 00:02:35,020 --> 00:02:36,950 OFF EVERYTHING AND YOU COULD GET IT REALLY 51 00:02:36,950 --> 00:02:37,950 DARK IN THERE. 52 00:02:37,950 --> 00:02:40,740 UH, LET MY EYES ADJUST AND JUST LOOK OUT AT 53 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:42,630 THE STARS. 54 00:02:42,630 --> 00:02:47,760 AND THE STARS, YOU KNOW, THE LONGER YOU SIT 55 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:53,460 THE MORE YOU SEE, AND IT JUST-IT BECOMES UNBELIEVABLE. 56 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:56,960 THE NUMBER, THE JUST, BILLIONS OF STARS.THE 57 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,690 MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, THE GALAXIES, THAT YOU 58 00:02:59,690 --> 00:03:02,180 CAN SEE WITH YOUR NAKED EYE. 59 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:03,950 AND THEY DON'T TWINKLE. 60 00:03:03,950 --> 00:03:05,950 THEY JUST STARE AT YOU. 61 00:03:05,950 --> 00:03:11,459 THEY DARE YOU TO COME AND TO-TO EXPLORE. 62 00:03:11,459 --> 00:03:14,040 IT LIGHTS A FIRE INSIDE YOUR SOUL THAT IS 63 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,090 UNLIKE ANYTHING I EVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE 64 00:03:18,090 --> 00:03:19,110 OR SINCE. 65 00:03:19,110 --> 00:03:22,940 AND IT'S WHY YOU SEE ASTRONAUTS, YOU KNOW, 66 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:26,250 THEY SAY 560-580, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE 67 00:03:26,250 --> 00:03:28,290 HAVE GONE TO SPACE, THEY'RE ALL THE SAME. 68 00:03:28,290 --> 00:03:29,910 THEY ALL HAVE THAT BUG. 69 00:03:29,910 --> 00:03:31,780 AND THEY ALL WANT TO DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR 70 00:03:31,780 --> 00:03:35,030 POWER AFTER EXPERIENCING THAT TO MAKE SURE 71 00:03:35,030 --> 00:03:38,550 THAT HUMANITY REACHES ITS POTENTIAL. 72 00:03:38,550 --> 00:03:39,860 THAT WE GET THERE. 73 00:03:39,860 --> 00:03:42,560 THAT WE DON'T JUST SEE THE STARS, 74 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,840 THAT WE EXPLORE THEM. 75 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:45,930 THAT WE LIVE THERE. 76 00:03:45,930 --> 00:03:49,379 THAT WE GROW INTO WHAT WE CAN BE. 77 00:03:49,379 --> 00:03:53,080 AND YOU'RE REMINDED OF THE INCREDIBLE POTENTIAL 78 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,550 THAT WE HAVE AS HUMANS, WHEN WE PUT EVERYTHING 79 00:03:56,550 --> 00:03:58,320 ELSE ASIDE AND JUST WORK TOGETHER. 80 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,080 AND YOU FEEL A PART OF THAT. 81 00:04:04,099 --> 00:04:06,940 LOOKING OUT THE CUPOLA, AND JUST BEING A PART 82 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:09,849 OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THIS GLOBE 83 00:04:09,849 --> 00:04:12,940 THAT HAVE PUT TOGETHER THIS, JUST, PALACE 84 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:16,180 IN THE SKY, FOR US TO DISCOVER AND LEARN AND 85 00:04:16,180 --> 00:04:16,680 GROW. 86 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:23,400 IT SHOWED ME THE POTENTIAL OF WHAT HUMANITY 87 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,740 CAN BE WHEN YOU WORK TOGETHER AS ONE TEAM, 88 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:30,560 IT INSPIRED ME TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN IN MY 89 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,599 POWER FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE TO ENABLE HUMANITY 90 00:04:34,599 --> 00:04:35,599 TO EVOLVE. 91 00:04:35,599 --> 00:04:38,760 TO GET THERE TO THOSE STARS THAT WERE STARING 92 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,969 STRAIGHT IN MY FACE, AND DARING US TO COME 93 00:04:41,969 --> 00:04:44,180 GET 'EM. 94 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:46,819 THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN NEVER QUENCH. 95 00:04:46,819 --> 00:04:48,809 IT'S BEEN A COUPLE YEARS SINCE I FLEW.