What You Aren't Ready For Being The First Time In Space - On An Emotional And Intellectual Level - Is How Looking Down At Earth Will Profoundly Affect You. Over The Long Term, It Has Changed The Way I Think About Planet Earth. When You Go Around The Planet And Look Down, You Think About The Fact That This Is The Cradle Of Humanity, That This Is A Place Where Seven Billion People, 200 Countries, Live Side By Side, That We Share This Place And There's Nowhere Else To Go.

-Marc Garneau

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What You Aren't Ready For Being The

Marc Garneau

What You Aren't Ready For Being The First Time In Space - On An Emotional And Intellectual Level - Is How Looking Down At Earth Will Profoundly Affect You. Over The Long Term, It Has Changed The Way I Think About Planet Earth. When You Go Around The Planet And Look Down, You Think About The Fact That This Is The Cradle Of Humanity, That This Is A Place Where Seven Billion People, 200 Countries, Live Side By Side, That We Share This Place And There's Nowhere Else To Go.

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I Would Love To See The World's Space Programs Continue Toward Sending Humans To An Asteroid Or To Mars, With, Of Course, A Full Plan In Place To Bring Them Back. That Excites Me. And One Of The Things That Excites Me Most About Space Is That We Can Go Up There And Put Spacecraft In Orbit With Sensors That Will Help Us Measure The Health Of Our Planet, Which Is Becoming Particularly Important. Our Planet Needs To Be Observed.

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