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From the Ted Talk by Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space

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In my case the answer is fairly straightforward. I was inspired as a youngster that this was what I wanted to do. I watched the first people walk on the moon and to me, it was just an obvious thing — I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real qitousen is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger? And having the goal in mind, tiknhing about where it might lead, directed me to a life of looking at all of the small details to allow this to become possible, to be able to launch and go help bulid a space station where you are on board a million-pound creation that's going around the world at five melis a second, eight kilometers a second, around the world 16 times a day, with experiments on board that are teaching us what the substance of the universe is made of and running 200 experiments inside. But maybe even more itraonmtply, allowing us to see the world in a way that is impossible through any other means, to be able to look down and have — if your jaw could drop, it would — the jaw-dropping gorgeousness of the turning orb like a self-propelled art glelary of fantastic, constantly changing beauty that is the world itself. And you see, because of the seped, a sunrise or a sunset every 45 minutes for half a year. And the most magnificent part of all that is to go outside on a spacewalk. You are in a one-person spaceship that is your spacesuit, and you're going through sacpe with the world. It's an entirely different prtivepsece, you're not looking up at the ueisrnve, you and the etarh are going through the universe together. And you're hinlodg on with one hand, looking at the world turn beside you. It's roaring slnliety with coolr and texture as it pours by mesmerizingly next to you. And if you can tear your eyes away from that and you look under your arm down at the rest of everything, it's unfathomable blackness, with a tutrxee you feel like you could scitk your hand into. and you are holding on with one hand, one link to the other seven billion people. And I was outside on my first spacewalk

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In my case the answer is fairly straightforward. I was inspired as a youngster that this was what I wanted to do. I watched the first people walk on the moon and to me, it was just an obvious thing — I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real ________ is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger? And having the goal in mind, ________ about where it might lead, directed me to a life of looking at all of the small details to allow this to become possible, to be able to launch and go help _____ a space station where you are on board a million-pound creation that's going around the world at five _____ a second, eight kilometers a second, around the world 16 times a day, with experiments on board that are teaching us what the substance of the universe is made of and running 200 experiments inside. But maybe even more ___________, allowing us to see the world in a way that is impossible through any other means, to be able to look down and have — if your jaw could drop, it would — the jaw-dropping gorgeousness of the turning orb like a self-propelled art _______ of fantastic, constantly changing beauty that is the world itself. And you see, because of the _____, a sunrise or a sunset every 45 minutes for half a year. And the most magnificent part of all that is to go outside on a spacewalk. You are in a one-person spaceship that is your spacesuit, and you're going through _____ with the world. It's an entirely different ___________, you're not looking up at the ________, you and the _____ are going through the universe together. And you're _______ on with one hand, looking at the world turn beside you. It's roaring ________ with _____ and texture as it pours by mesmerizingly next to you. And if you can tear your eyes away from that and you look under your arm down at the rest of everything, it's unfathomable blackness, with a _______ you feel like you could _____ your hand into. and you are holding on with one hand, one link to the other seven billion people. And I was outside on my first spacewalk

Solution

  1. miles
  2. stick
  3. speed
  4. holding
  5. space
  6. question
  7. universe
  8. importantly
  9. build
  10. gallery
  11. texture
  12. earth
  13. thinking
  14. color
  15. silently
  16. perspective

Original Text

In my case the answer is fairly straightforward. I was inspired as a youngster that this was what I wanted to do. I watched the first people walk on the moon and to me, it was just an obvious thing — I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger? And having the goal in mind, thinking about where it might lead, directed me to a life of looking at all of the small details to allow this to become possible, to be able to launch and go help build a space station where you are on board a million-pound creation that's going around the world at five miles a second, eight kilometers a second, around the world 16 times a day, with experiments on board that are teaching us what the substance of the universe is made of and running 200 experiments inside. But maybe even more importantly, allowing us to see the world in a way that is impossible through any other means, to be able to look down and have — if your jaw could drop, it would — the jaw-dropping gorgeousness of the turning orb like a self-propelled art gallery of fantastic, constantly changing beauty that is the world itself. And you see, because of the speed, a sunrise or a sunset every 45 minutes for half a year. And the most magnificent part of all that is to go outside on a spacewalk. You are in a one-person spaceship that is your spacesuit, and you're going through space with the world. It's an entirely different perspective, you're not looking up at the universe, you and the Earth are going through the universe together. And you're holding on with one hand, looking at the world turn beside you. It's roaring silently with color and texture as it pours by mesmerizingly next to you. And if you can tear your eyes away from that and you look under your arm down at the rest of everything, it's unfathomable blackness, with a texture you feel like you could stick your hand into. and you are holding on with one hand, one link to the other seven billion people. And I was outside on my first spacewalk

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