The Explorers Club - An Interview with Sian Proctor

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today, we are lucky enough to hear from a highly accomplished explorer who has some incredible experiences to share with us. Dr. Sian Proctor was the mission pilot for the Inspiration4, which is the all-civilian orbital mission to space and she’s the first African American woman to pilot a spacecraft. She also lived in a Mars analog environment to simulate what it might be like to live on the red planet.

Sian Proctor Interview from 4/23/22
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0:00.0	One of the questions that I often get is what was the best part about going to space?
0:04.3	Absolutely.
0:05.3	Was there something that I wasn't expecting?
0:08.0	And the best part was seeing the Earth from space, but what I wasn't expecting was was Earth light
0:15.0	light.
0:16.0	And what I mean by that is, when we got up into the cupola,
0:21.7	you know, our capsule got filled with Earthlight and it's just like moonlight.
0:27.7	So think about when you go outside on a night where there's a full moon. And think about how that feels,
0:33.5	and how you can walk in the moonlight,
0:35.7	and you can feel the moonlight on your face.
0:38.9	Have you ever wondered what it would be like
0:40.6	to go to space?
0:42.4	Obviously, most of us have no idea. We can watch movies
0:46.1	like Gravity or The Martian, but that's only a glimpse of what it might be like to leave Earth
0:50.7	behind. Personally, I wonder about the little moments, the things you can't know until you experience them yourself.
0:57.6	Well, Earthlight is a thousand times more beautiful, more brilliant, more spectacular than moonlight.
1:04.7	And I wasn't expecting to feel the reflected sunlight
1:10.0	off of our planet back on to me and to just be overwhelmed by being bathed in Earthlight.
1:18.2	The Earth has a high reflectivity and as a geoscientist I know that.
1:21.9	But to go up and to experience it, like it clicked into my head.
1:26.0	I was like, whoa, this is amazing.
1:28.7	And so I think that that's something that everybody
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