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00:30In the Ryan spacecraft, manually piloting the table, you perform critical operations,
00:36relaying scientific observations, capturing inspiring pictures, of course,
00:42measured farther in space than anyone in history on a true test mission.
00:47You were, of course, the first crew to fly on this rocket and spacecraft, and that comes with risk.
00:53You accepted that risk for what we collectively used to gain all the...
00:57So on behalf of NASA and the space-loving community from around the world,
01:02thank you for showing us your courage, your professionalism, your unity, and your humanity.
01:08Thank you for showing us the moon again.
01:11Thank you for showing us planet Earth again.
01:22I have absolutely no idea what to say.
01:24This is 24 hours ago, the Earth was that big out the window, and we were doing Mach 39,
01:29and here we are back at Ellington at home.
01:40Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, we are bonded forever.
01:46And no one down here is ever going to know what the four of us just went through.
01:51And it was the most special thing that will ever happen in my life.
01:54No one knows what the families went through, man.
01:57This was not easy.
01:59Being 200,000-plus miles away from home.
02:02Like, before you launch, it feels like it's the greatest dream on Earth.
02:06And when you're out there, you just want to get back to your families and your friends.
02:10It's a special thing to be a human, and it's a special thing to be on planet Earth.
02:14Even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing
02:23what we did, and being with who I was with, it's too big to just be in one body.
02:30So when we saw Tiny Earth, people asked our crew what impressions we had.
02:40And honestly, what struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth.
02:45It was all the blackness around it.
02:49Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe.
02:57So I think I'll start with gratitude.
03:00Gratitude for my family.
03:02Gratitude for NASA, for its leadership.
03:07Gratitude for Canadian Space Agency.
03:11Gratitude for the Canadians and the Canadians.
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