A Civilization That Only Looks Inward Will

Researchers Can Measure What Kind Of Angles Your Legs Take Up During The Day When They're Just Trailing Around Behind You In Weightless Conditions, And What Kind Of Impacts You Feel During Your Exercise. They're Going To Compare That With What We Do On The Ground.

We're Going To Be Focusing Our Science On Things That Will Take Us Farther And Longer Into Space. For Many Of Those Experiments, The Crew Members Are Human Guinea Pigs, Which Is Fine; That's Part Of My Job. I Don't Mind Being A Human Guinea Pig.

In The 19th Century People Were Looking For The Northwest Passage. Ships Were Lost And Brave People Were Killed, But That Doesn't Mean We Never Went Back To That Part Of The World Again, And I Consider It The Same In Space Exploration.

It So Happened That My Goals Kind Of Matched My Career Progression Toward Becoming An Astronaut.

A Civilization That Only Looks Inward Will Stagnate. We Have To Keep Looking Outward; We Have To Keep Finding New Avenues For Human Endeavor And Human Expression.