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Experience and it was incredible. >> and she was working as a scientist doing experiments, as well. >> yeah. >> richard, you have long spoken about the overview effect. anyone that's gone to space refers to the overview effect and how it fundamentally changes them and they become a stewart of earth. did you experience that? >> i -- it sort of capped it off for me. i will now spend and i promise, i will now spend the next -- i'm an optimist. the next 30 years of my life doing everything i can to protect the species on this beautiful earth and work on climate change issues, to work on trying to ...

Completely within a mindset of national boundaries. so these perspectives, these overview effect as nasa describes it, in my field we call it a cosmic perspective, it can change you. and it generally only changes you for the better. it makes you more hucmble. it makes you more respectful of earth as an ecosystem that sustains us. it's so easy to think about your own little circumstances and your own moment and your own place. it's one of the sort of benefits of having gone into space in the first place. you will just look at how people have started thirnking about earth, the climate -- here's ...

Arriving in space and the sil silence. you know, to looking out of the window, seeing our glorious, glorious -- the colors of the sky, to unbuckling and floating just literally lifting -- just going off to the ceiling and floating, looking back down and these big windows, now the spaceship is upside down facing back down to the earth. seeing these three float around underneath me like giant fish. get out of my way. i want to see the earth. >> you have long spoken about the overview effect. anyone who has gone to space often refers to the overview effect, how it fundamentally changed them and t...

Back. we'll do both questions. >> jackie waddle cnn. you talked a lot about the overview effect and wanting to spread that. would you say you experienced that today? i was curious, we could go down the line from the passengers today, if you brought any mementos or a way to commemorate today, i'd love to hear about it. >> so -- where are we? i brought some mementos. i think you should always bring mementos. i brought pictures of my kids when they were a little bit littler in front of ooh giant ufo -- actually, you kids would like this. on april fools' day we flew this ufo over london and caused...

Main engines. so some great science can happen up there on the international space station and companies are going to be vying to get on these flights. so today mainly i'm wishing them all the best and a big successful flight. lots of fun to see as astronauts call it. we heard commander chris hatfield say that sort of overview effect. astronaut nicole stott talks about she realized there were no boundaries, she wasn't looking for texas or florida, she saw it as one unified globe. so, yeah, i am looking to see the smiles. >> the elation and stories that are going to come as they land back here ...