Life Continues In Lots Of Places, And

Some Things Are Only Capable Of Being Done In Space. Examples Of That Are Looking At Our Earth From That Far Away, And Understanding The Entire Processes Of Storms And Weather Patterns, And Oceans, And Coastlines.

This Has Been A Great Experience For Me. The First Couple Of Days You Don't Always Feel Too Well. You Adjust To The Fluid Shifting, How To Fly Through Space Without Hitting Things Or Anybody Else. But Then You Get In A Groove.

There Are Some Very Significant Changes In The Way The Fluids Are Distributed In Our Body, The Way Our Heart Functions Initially, And As Well As Our Bone And Muscle.

Things Are Going Very Smoothly. As Expected, There Are Some Minor Glitches, And The Eight Minutes That It Took Us To Get To Orbit, We Trained Months And Months For, And Didn't Have To Use Any Of That Preparation, Other Than Being Aware And Ready.

I Can't Think Of Anything Specific Growing Up That Pointed Me Toward Nasa At All. I Was Interested In The Moon Landings Just About The Same As Everyone Else Of My Generation. But I Never Really Thought About Being An Astronaut Or Working In Space Myself.