00:00Astronauts are extremely passionate beings,
00:04invested at 200% and very talented in many areas.
00:08For me, they are my superheroes.
00:10I am in great admiration of them.
00:14It's not even a job, it's a vocation.
00:30Life is also shared, because these experiences are very rare and privileged.
00:41I have lived them, there are about 60 women today who have flown.
00:45And you, Eva, in what Claudie told you,
00:47is there an anecdote that you particularly remember?
00:51Oh, God.
00:54I don't know, maybe the take-off with the mirror, to look…
01:03Yes, indeed, I remember that moment, in that rocket,
01:09at the time of take-off, when we were installed at the top of the rocket,
01:12in its capsule.
01:13The take-off, the vertical take-off,
01:17so the extraction, the separation of the Earth, that moment.
01:21And it doesn't last long, it lasts a few minutes.
01:27And so it's the only moment when we're going to be able to extract ourselves vertically from the Earth,
01:30it's a moment that can't be missed, once the head is separated,
01:33and we can look through the window.
01:35But we can't look through the window,
01:38because we're stuck with our harness in our seat.
01:41So the only solution is the little mirror we have on the sleeve of our spacesuit,
01:47which is made to look if we have properly buckled our helmet in case of depressurization.
01:54And there, looking through the little mirror, through the window,
01:58we can see ourselves leaving the Earth in this vertical direction.
02:03It's still an extraordinary adventure to go and open the earpiece
02:07and find yourself in the extra-atmospheric void,
02:12in this little spacesuit, which is what protects you from this hostile environment,
02:18to see the Earth moving at 28,000 km per hour, at 400 km in orbit.
02:23Yes, these are magical moments.
02:25Of course, I'm going to talk about this vision through the window,
02:29of this little blue and white planet that is the Earth in this rather mysterious black cosmos,
02:37a beauty, a fragility, quite extraordinary.
02:45And these are moments when we feel sensations that are not usual to us.
02:49We call it the overview effect.
02:51When you're an astronaut, it's hard to find the words to describe it,
02:55because it's both harmony, a planet that we know is carrying life,
03:00and we have this possibility to look at it and then to transmit this look.
03:04So that's very, very strong.
03:06I'm also very attached to the beauty of the Earth, wherever it is.
03:11And for me, the return to the steppes of Kazakhstan was the opening of the earpiece,
03:15the smell of the Earth.
03:17No smell in the station.
03:20And we're still earthlings somewhere, and we're attached to this planet.
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