Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.
When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows us to see hidden temples and tombs and pyramids and even entire settlements.
If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.
I've flown in space four times now, so it's going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here.
The thing I like most about flying in space is not the view. The thing I like about it is doing something I feel very, very strongly about.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.