So Most Astronauts Are Astronauts

The View Of Earth Is Spectacular From Space. Most People Imagine That When Astronauts Look Out The Window Of The Shuttle They See The Whole Earth Like That Big Blue Marble That Was Made Famous By The Flights That Went To The Moon. But The Shuttle Is Much, Much Closer Than Those Astronauts Were. So We Don't See The Whole Planet, The Whole Ball At Once, We Just See Parts Of It.

But When I Wasn't Working, I Was Usually At A Window Looking Down At Earth.

I Can't Remember A Single Time [my Parents] Ever Told Me Not To Do Something I Wanted To Do.

On Both Of My Flights, Everything Went Very Well.

I Love The John Glenn Model... I May Call Nasa In 25 Years Or So, And See If They'd Like To Send Me To Mars.