Terry Virts - A Beautiful Planet - Trailer
London Real
Brian Rose
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🗓️ 30 November 2016
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Terry Virts was a NASA astronaut from the year 2000. The Maryland native graduated with Academic Distinction from the United States Air Force Academy in 1989 and has logged over 4,300 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft. He served as the Endeavour pilot for STS-130 in 2010, and was assigned to Expedition 42/43, where he served as commander for Expedition 43 in 2015. Virts has conducted three spacewalks totalling more than 19 hours and has logged 212 days in space on his two flights. Was previously assigned to the Extravehicular Activity Robotics branch.
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| 0:00.0 | My whole mission was this dichotomy of the mundane and the sublime. |
| 0:10.8 | So I'd be like work work work work work work and then take a |
| 0:17.2 | second and you'd see a view that humans weren't meant to see that is just you |
| 0:22.3 | can't even imagine. |
| 0:23.0 | And I saw the sunrise and my first overwhelming impression was I've never seen that shade of blue before. |
| 0:34.4 | It was just beautiful, there's not even a word to describe it. |
| 0:37.3 | And it was like I'm seeing God out here in space. |
| 0:45.0 | That kind of puts the was in Russia, half of my crew were Russian cosmonauts and I just got to be great friends with that. |
| 1:04.5 | While I was training, the Ukraine Civil War happened. |
| 1:08.0 | So I'm in space with all this stuff going on and in space we watched little red flashes and |
| 1:12.3 | with my cosmonauts we could see bombs going |
| 1:14.6 | off in Ukraine. |
| 1:18.4 | When you're here born and raised on earth you just this is home and everything else is out there but when you're out there you get to see |
| 1:25.5 | Earth as a spaceship flying through the universe. We need to be crewmates, not just passengers. |
| 1:37.0 | We need to be crewmates, not just passengers. What Shire inside was showing the sheep? |
| 1:47.0 | Repoebly? |
| 1:50.0 | Repo-It-Thyr were... We're going to see. |
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