Episode Transcript: #414 - Cmdr. Chris Hadfield
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His name is Chris Hatfield.
The book is An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.
Hear that? That's me.
I never forget. I never remember, rather.
Turned my laptop off.
You were in space for 166 days.
Amazing, huh?
That's insane.
It's when I sit on my dock and watch the space station go over,
it's really hard to rationalize.
I know I was up there and I can remember all the details,
but to try and link in life on Earth with seeing that spotlight go across the horizon,
it's still, I haven't got sorted out of my head how to connect it.
Is that the longest a person's ever been up there?
No, there was a Russian guy named Valery Polyakov who stayed up 14 months straight,
400 and whatever that is, days, long time.
Wow.
Yeah, no, I'm nowhere near the record.
That's still 166 days is an incredible amount of time to be detached from gravity
and floating around in space.