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Category: Ron Garan

This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we’ve been given.

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Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.

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If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

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At this point I thought ‘We made it,’ by which I meant ‘We survived.’ I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.

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Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.

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I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.

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People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

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We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

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Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

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People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

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We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

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Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

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