• Question: how do you feel when you are in space?

    Asked by SpaceFan★★★★★ to Will, Silvia, Kieran, Isaac, Betty on 16 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by CLKL, GS,KLH, Achsu.
    • Photo: Isaac Llorens

      Isaac Llorens answered on 16 Nov 2016:

      I don’t know I’ve never been, but astronauts say it is a great feeling.

    • Photo: Silvia Pardo

      Silvia Pardo answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      Here is one of my favourite space quotes from Russell Schweickart, who went to space on the Apollo9:

      ‘When you go around the Earth in an hour and half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with the whole thing. And that makes a change.
      You look down there and you can’t imagine how many borders and boundaries you cross, again and again and again, and you don’t even see them. There you are – hundreds of people in the Middle East killing each other over some imaginary line that you’re not even aware of, that you can’t see. And from where you see it, the thing is a whole, the earth is a whole, and it’s so beautiful. You wish you could take a person in each hand, one from each side in the various conflicts, and say, “Look. Look at it from this perspective. Look at that. What’s important?”‘

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