Life Continues In Lots Of Places, And

I Have A Computer Screen Near My Seat Where I Monitor The Overall Health Of The Vehicle And Pick Up Any Problems That Might Be Occurring Early On Or Once We See Any Kind Of A Malfunction Or Anything Unusual That's Happening, We Can Look At The Data And Figure Out What That Is.

Things Are Going Very Smoothly. As Expected, There Are Some Minor Glitches, And The Eight Minutes That It Took Us To Get To Orbit, We Trained Months And Months For, And Didn't Have To Use Any Of That Preparation, Other Than Being Aware And Ready.

There Are Some Very Significant Changes In The Way The Fluids Are Distributed In Our Body, The Way Our Heart Functions Initially, And As Well As Our Bone And Muscle.

I Can't Think Of Anything Specific Growing Up That Pointed Me Toward Nasa At All. I Was Interested In The Moon Landings Just About The Same As Everyone Else Of My Generation. But I Never Really Thought About Being An Astronaut Or Working In Space Myself.

Science, For Hundreds Of Years, Has Spanned The Differences Between Cultures And Between Countries.