Mission Interplanetary: No Space for Columbus
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
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| 0:00.0 | So Katie, what are you most excited about at the moment? |
| 0:23.0 | Well, whenever I have a birthday, I think of it as like the season of my birthday. |
| 0:29.0 | It's a little greedy, isn't it? Well, it lets you kind of spread things out, you know. |
| 0:34.0 | I had a particularly long birthday, actually, when I launched to the space station, |
| 0:38.0 | because I actually launched the day after my 50th birthday. |
| 0:43.0 | And it was... Hold it, hold it, hold it. I had no idea you went up when you were 50. |
| 0:48.0 | That in itself is a pretty big thing. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, my husband has had a hard time coming up with a better birthday presence. |
| 0:57.0 | Right, yeah, there's nothing ready to talk. |
| 0:59.0 | But it was also the 50th anniversary of human space flight while I was on the space station. |
| 1:07.0 | And that was 10 years ago. |
| 1:09.0 | And so in my mind, there's just this whole kind of month of April, but it's really April 12th, |
| 1:15.0 | where we celebrate the first time that a human being left our planet, launched into space. |
| 1:21.0 | And that was Yuri Gagarin. |
| 1:23.0 | And actually, what I really love about this celebration is the fact that it took... |
| 1:28.0 | It took basically a group of friends who came from all over the world to say, |
| 1:32.0 | hey, isn't this something that not just like Russia should celebrate |
| 1:36.0 | and not just the US when we go launching, but this is about humans. |
| 1:40.0 | Humans launched from... This is the very first time a human left the Earth. |
| 1:44.0 | And it's become this worldwide celebration due to this group of friends |
| 1:48.0 | and it's called Yuri's Night, where in cities all over the world, people will celebrate. |
| 1:54.0 | And when we were up on the station, one of the guys who came up during our expedition |
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