Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.