This Has Been A Great Experience For

Hello From Above Our Magnificent Planet Earth.

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.

Life Science Research Can Be Done On Multiple Platforms. Since We Have A Very Small Number Of People Flying Into Space, The More People You Have, The Better.

We're Looking At Earth Science, Observing Our Planet. Also Space Science, Looking At The Ozone In The Atmosphere Around Our Earth. Also Looking At Life Science. And On A Human Level, Using Ourselves As Test Subjects.

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.