00:00But there was a moment about an hour ago where Mission Control Houston reoriented our spacecraft as the sun was
00:07setting behind the Earth.
00:08And I don't know what we all expected to see at that moment, but you could see the entire globe
00:13from pole to pole.
00:14You could see Africa, Europe, and if you looked really close, you could see the northern lights.
00:21It was the most spectacular moment, and it paused all four of us in our tracks.
00:25One of the biggest surprises was how smooth riding those solids was.
00:28We all expected a really just dynamic ride, a lot of motion.
00:33We were prepared to potentially not being able to see telemetry, maybe even not being able to touch switches, and
00:40it was very smooth.
00:43I just kept saying to them yesterday, like, I really like it up here.
00:47I wish I could have got here sooner.
00:49It's just such a tremendous place to be.
00:52The views are extraordinary.
00:54It's really fun to be floating around, and it just makes me feel like a little kid.
01:00Being an astronaut, you know, serving our countries at this time is that we get to give ourselves a mission
01:07that we can hold on to to say, hey, look at what we did for the rest of our lives.
01:12You know, we call amazing things that humans do moonshots for a reason, because this brought us together and showed
01:18us what we can do when we put—not just putting our differences aside, when we bring our differences together and
01:23use all the strengths.
01:28And I'm the space plumber.
01:30I'm proud to call myself the space plumber.
01:33I like to say that it is probably the most important piece of equipment on board.
01:37So we were all breathing a sigh of relief when it turned out to be just fine.
01:41It was just an issue, I think, of sitting for a long time and needing a little time to warm
01:45up, a priming issue.
01:46But we did originally think that there could have been potentially something fouling up the motor, and luckily we are
01:54all systems go.
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