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i'm the first person to both fly in

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space

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and touch the deepest point in the ocean

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my emissions have taken me over 2

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million feet above sea level

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and 35

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853 feet below sea level

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i have seen things no other human being

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has

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and they've absolutely changed me in a

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lot of ways

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i'm kathy sullivan i'm an oceanographer

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and astronaut

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my interest in science showed up at very

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early age i really had a lust for

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adventure and travel and exploration

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my first space flight was in october of

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1984

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after 15 years as an astronaut i made my

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way back to earth to focus on the oceans

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i've always thought that it's too bad we

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never created a nasa for the deepest

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deepest parts of the sea

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we know more about our moon and mars

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than we do about the deep sea

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so little is known about the shape of

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the bottom so one of the objectives was

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mapping the deep sea floor

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deep sea submersible dives and space

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shuttle flights can be pretty different

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on the space shuttle took us eight and

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half minutes to go from zero miles an

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hour to orbital velocity 17 500 miles an

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hour

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it amounts to riding a bomb

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when you get into orbit you're a couple

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hundred miles above the earth any

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direction you look you can see probably

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nearly a thousand miles

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you get 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets in

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every 24-hour day

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you're just stunned by the number of

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stars that you can see so there kind of

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isn't really an inky black of space

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that's anything like the inky black of

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the deep sea

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going to the bottom of the ocean

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contrast was like the world's smoothest

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calmest elevator ride and it took us

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four hours to go from the surface to

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nearly 36 000 feet

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it is kind of like a magic school bus i

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mean you're sitting inside this cozy

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little metal sphere you might be

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munching a tuna fish sandwich and yet

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outside that sphere pressure's about

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1100 times greater than it is here on

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the surface of the earth

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it's dark except for what light you

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bring with you on the submarine

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we could maybe see 30 feet in whatever

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direction we were looking at the

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viewport it was like a moonscape or an

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underwater desert

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it really is in a lot of ways harder to

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explore and understand the ocean

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i've spent a fair amount of time living

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in these complex machines

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i think intense experiences deepen the

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value that you put on family on home

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so i look back at my life and i see

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vastly more blessing and sacrifice

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to actually have those experiences and

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to deepen our understanding of our

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planet and how many ways we depend on

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that to me is all blessing

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we are all sharing this one home this

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one little spaceship earth

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we have to look at it as a place that

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you cherish in a place you want to

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protect

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we're on it together and we're

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intimately connected

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