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And then you stop you feel , like youre tumbling forward. I was like, whats going on here . Under the seat belt, i pushed off my back and flew to the window to videotape the planet. Im doing my task, and this thing is falling and we are trying to see any marks on it, seeing if something had hit our vehicle, like what happened to the columbia accident. I do this thing and im like, ok, and i see the caribbean. The colors of the ocean are so dramatic and blue. I almost need a new definition of blue to describe what im looking at. And we are going around the planet every 90 minutes and seeing the sunrise and sunset every minutes. 45 im like, wow, this is space. Even in the deepness and darkness and blackness of space, you look back at the planet, you see the sun, and its incredible. It changed me. Fundamentally, it made me have a cognitive shift in the way that i think about humanity and how i think about the planet and saving it, and work with people who dont have the same food or whateve ....
Mission to build, resupply, and do research on the International Space station. 10 and a half minutes later, you are now in space, and the things that you dropped are floating, the dust particles and things. You are still strapped in, and when the engines cut off, because you are accelerating in the stop, you feel like youre tumbling forward. I was like, whats going on here . Under the seat belt, i push off my back and flitted to videotape back to the planet flew to the window to videotape the planet. This thing is falling and we are trying to see any marks on it, seeing if something had hit our vehicle, like what happened to the columbia accident. , do this thing and im like ok, and i see the caribbean. The colors of the ocean are so dramatic and blue. I almost need a new definition of blue to describe what im looking at. And we are going around the planet every 90 minutes and seeing the sunrise and sunset every five minutes ....
The first manned flight into the earths stratosphere. In 1935, two Army Captains named anderson and stevens sailed off from the south Dakota Plains to a recordbreaking 72,000 feet. Were really lucky in rammpi city. We have some interesting history that goes just beyond the culture of the area. Were talking about the stratobowl and the stratosphere flights. In sending man up above the stratosphere. Essentially rapid city area is the home of the first space flight. So what the National Geographic and u. S. Army air corps did was they decided to Work Together to make this happen. And they wanted to find a natural shape to rest the balloon and gondola in. So they were looking for a bowl area. That bowl shape protects the gondola as it goes up so they scoured all of no ....
Welcome ladies and gentlemen forhe robert c. Byrd center congressional history and education. I am the director here at the bird center. Thank you for joining us as we celebrate Constitution Day. Constitution day, as im sure many of you know, was yesterday. We are belated in celebrating, but thats ok. Before i get started i want to take a minute to recognize the passing of Cokie Roberts. Many of you were here in july when cokie and Steve Roberts very graciously came out and participated in an advent an event. We had a wonderful dinner afterward. To say that our thoughts and prayers are dedicated to them. As we are Getting Started here, i want to general i want to gently remind you all to silence your cell phones. I would like to thank four seasons books for your su ....