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NASA Astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth 10 days ago, touchdown in Kazakhstan. Throughout his newest mission, his third long-duration on the Worldwide House Station, Pettit introduced his model of wonderment to the project.
Throughout his time in microgravity, Pettit, an inveterate tinkerer, mentioned he likes to spend his free time both doing experiments in microgravity he can’t do on Earth or taking photographs to carry the expertise again residence. At a information convention Monday, Pettit was requested why he took so many photographs—670,000!—throughout his most up-to-date keep on the area station.
“After I’m looking the window, simply having fun with the view, it is like, ‘Oh, wow, a meteor. Have a look at that. Man, there is a flash there. What’s that? Oh, have a look at that volcano going off. Okay, the place’s my digicam? I gotta file that.’ And a part of this drive for me is when your mission is over, it is images and recollections. Whenever you need to share the expertise with folks, you may share the recollections by way of verbal communication, like we’re doing now, however the images are simply one other dimension of sharing what it is like. It is an expertise the place most individuals on Earth proper now cannot share, and I can attempt to give them a glimpse by way of my imagery.”