• Question: when you leave the atmosphere what thought run through your mind?

    Asked by tonieastup123 to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      If I don’t have an oxygen mask: *gasp*

      I think it would be wonderful to fly above the earth’s atmosphere and look down on all those blue layers and the clouds and land and sea, and then look up into starry blackness. I hope I will get to do it before I get too old.

    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I haven’t been so I don’t know, but I’ve read what a lot of astronauts have said about it and it sounds really cool.

      I think it would make me realise how fragile out Earth is – we inhabit a layer about 20km across on the planet, which is nothing in the grand scale of the universe.

      That kind of thing might make us feel insignificant but I think it would make me really proud that we’ve achieved so much!

      P.S. I think space suit analyser sounds like an awesome job!

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I haven’t been.

      I think it would be excitement about being able to look back soon and see the beautiful Earth. And also a bit of fear about all the things that could go wrong and keep you from returning.

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I’m afraid I’ve never left the atmosphere. But I think ‘wow!’ would summarise it, as you’d see the edge of the atmosphere, the curvature of the Earth (“so it really is round!”), and then the blackness of space.

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