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hi my name is adrian crotty and i am

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studying environmental studies today

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i'll be sitting down with astronaut

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sunny williams i was curious to know how

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seeing the earth from space changed her

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perspective on the work that she did

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from space and the life that she lives

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now when she's back on the planet thank

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you for watching the premiere of season

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2 down to earth follow along for more

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[Music]

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so

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i have a few questions as you might

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guess um and to start with i'd like to

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know what is one thing about living and

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working in space that most people

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who have never been to space might not

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know about or understand well that's a

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good question and i'm not just saying

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that to fill time

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there's just there's a whole bunch of

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interesting things to talk about i think

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probably people think it's pretty nice

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that you can go and float around up

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there

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but that has some consequences to it you

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know of course i think our bodies need

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to adapt to going to space

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the initial getting the space like whoa

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you know it's a big adaptation but you

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feel like you like we're there okay so

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now i can float around okay maybe i'm a

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little clumsy but i think what people

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don't recognize is

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your whole being starts to adapt and it

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does take time folks had said in the

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past that maybe a month i didn't believe

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it i think most people don't believe it

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but you can really see how people become

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so natural

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up in space after about a month and how

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smoothly they fly and actually how that

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translated to me as a reality it was

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like i was like i don't know what it

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would be like to walk when i was up

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there there was through the center of

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the stack there was a module that went

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down and that was essentially our closet

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but it was pretty deep it's probably

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like 30 feet down

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and i'd float right over it and i was

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thinking to myself

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i don't even think twice about this like

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if i was walking i'd be like oh you know

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like what do i have to do here and i i

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actually sort of forgot what it was like

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to walk around that your body your brain

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your body can all just sort of

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live or change to the environment that

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you're in i thought that was pretty

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fascinating that doesn't it reminds me

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of the videos that you can see of

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astronauts when they come back and

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they're holding something and let go and

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then it just falls

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yep that's all one time and then you go

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okay i got it

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gravity is back yes

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it also reminds me of if you're ever

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like on a boat for an extended period

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and you get back on land and then you

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have the sea legs yep exactly

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would you say that that or was there

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something else what that was the biggest

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adjustment for you in space i think that

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was the biggest i think a close second

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is uh losing things i think one of the

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most annoying things is like when you

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think just for a second you're like you

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just let something go it's just gonna be

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there for just a second and you turn

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around and some air current takes it and

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you'll see a lot of video of people

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doing this

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and that's because they're looking for

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something and that's i think one of the

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most annoying things about being in

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space and so good pants a good flight

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suit like this with lots of pockets is

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really beneficial

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what is it like being once you're in

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orbit seeing earth from the first time

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from so far away ridiculous

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it's awesome i was actually on the mid

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deck of the space shuttle discovery that

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took me up there and i was working and

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you know we got to space and you know

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things start floating and that was fun

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and i'm chuckling about that and the

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commander and the pilot up in the front

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seats of the shuttle commander said

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sonny come on up and so he i flew up

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there and he gave me my little wings and

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what was more impressive i was like oh

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that's nice but i looking out the window

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i was like oh my god there's earth and

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it's round it's like they were right you

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know it's super cool and it's just

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seeing that planet you know in that view

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is just amazing and you just can't get

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sick of it every opportunity i think

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everybody has who lives on the

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international space station we have this

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amazing cupola window now we have two

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windows that look out by the gems so you

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could see the curvature of the earth

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from those two venues and it's just

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compelling i mean you can spend all day

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sitting there watching our planet

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another transition you know sort of like

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your body adapting initially i was

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always trying to find places that i knew

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like of course like houston or where i

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grew up in massachusetts or where my dad

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was from in india highlighting little

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pieces and parts of the earth for the

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people which is of course very important

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but after time

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i think i started getting more joy out

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of looking at our planet as a planet

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like watching algae blooms and all

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sudden in the ocean someplace there's

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this huge amazing blue spot or how the

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ice forms and flows

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up in the north atlantic with swirls or

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how the clouds are moving

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that was

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another transition you look at it like

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it's a living system the environment is

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absolutely living the oceans are living

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it's all changing right below you

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it seems like you know as we sit here on

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earth we don't see all that happening

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but when you look at it from that you

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know macro perspective finally it took a

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little while but that's how i viewed

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earth it's a pretty cool planet and i'm

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sure it's even more because it's not

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just the still picture you're watching

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it just like grow and transform right in

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front of you right in front of you yeah

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before you saw it from that perspective

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uh did you have any expectations about

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what you were gonna see yeah of course i

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mean i was uh you know whenever i would

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get a little bit bummed out here for

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some whatever reason missing missing my

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family or whatever i would take a little

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trek over to space center houston and

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watch an imax movie and go wow you know

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there's some pretty cool views but it

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doesn't even do it justice i mean it

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gave you a

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foundation a baseline of what you might

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see but when you actually see it for

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your own two eyes one of the reasons i

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feel like everybody on this planet needs

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to take a lap around our planet go to

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space take a lap and just look out the

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window

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come back it'll change your your view of

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