00:00Matthew Dominic, astronauta de la NASA y comandante de la misión SpaceX Crew-8,
00:06pasó casi ocho meses en la Estación Espacial Internacional,
00:10ejecutando experimentos científicos y manejando sistemas avanzados en microgravedad.
00:15Seleccionado como astronauta en el 2017, fue antes piloto de pruebas de la Armada de los Estados Unidos,
00:22con más de 1.600 horas de vuelo.
00:24En esta nota comparte su visión sobre el futuro de la exploración humana del espacio.
00:30Estoy más emocionado por el futuro de la exploración humana,
00:34por un punto de inflexión que creo que es coming.
00:37Si miras la historia de la civilización y los diferentes inflexión,
00:41las cosas de las que se descanse.
00:43Soy NASA astronauta Matthew Dominic,
00:46commandera de la NASA SpaceX Crew-8 mission de la Estación Internacional de la Estación Espacial Internacional.
00:51I grew up en Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
00:52I was the oldest de dos hermanos.
00:54I had dos padres que eran increíbles en que encouraged mi curiosidad.
00:59Growing up there in the Rockies, in the outdoors,
01:00there were so many things to go and do and see.
01:03I've always wanted to explore and satiate my curiosity for the world around me,
01:09and so I just kept pushing throughout my life.
01:11I joined the Navy because I wanted to fly airplanes, I wanted to go fast,
01:14I wanted to test airplanes, and so astronaut for me was just the next logical step in life
01:19to keep going and keep exploring and keep pushing myself further
01:21in terms of intellectual curiosity about the world around me.
01:25I've been at NASA now for about six years,
01:27and I'm super excited to fly in space.
01:30Working and training with Crew-8 is absolutely awesome.
01:34We have a diverse group of academic and intellectual backgrounds that come together
01:39and also an international component.
01:40It is such a blast to watch the crew grow as we started training over time,
01:44to watch that team dynamics develop as we get ready to launch.
01:47We're starting to see what makes each other tick, what's important to each other.
01:49I view Crew-8 like an Olympic torchbearer.
01:55That's where I see Crew-8.
01:56We are a torchbearer on that path to the Olympics that are going to occur in the future
02:00as we move humanity forward.
02:02We're going up there to relieve Crew-7, Crew-9 will relieve us,
02:06and we are keeping the flame of space, human presence in low-Earth orbit alive.
02:11If you're a studier of science or statistics, you know that you always want to have a big N,
02:15and that just means sample size.
02:17To understand the thing you're studying, so just launching one or two or ten or fifteen people to space
02:22leaves you with a very small sample size.
02:24So every time we launch four more people to space, we're building our sample size
02:28and our understanding of the human body and the things that happen to it
02:31in a zero-gravity environment.
02:32That sets us up to go to the moon.
02:34It sets us up to go to Mars.
02:37Many folks think of NASA, and they think we're using crazy, cutting-edge technology
02:41and all kinds of adjectives and superlatives to make space work.
02:45There is no smoke and mirrors, there's no magic.
02:47It is just hard work through the laws of physics and basic material science
02:51to get us into orbit.
02:52That's the magic.
02:53We are part of a massive team of people that need to continue continuous human presence
02:59in low-Earth orbit and not letting that flame go out.
03:02We are lined soldiers on the ground marching to make sure that this continues,
03:06and just being a small part of that and continuing that is what's important.
03:09We are the president.
03:10We are the president.
03:10We are the president.
