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- You went up into space,
there's the whole like

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overview effects, and I'm
sure you've probably been

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asked this question a lot.

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Like what, what does that do
to change your perspective

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about mean us as a
human race like society?

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What, what does that like
kind of change in you

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once you come back down to earth?

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- Yeah, that's a great question, Kyle.

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I, you know, I thought going to space

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to do my technical
assignment would've been

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my, my aha moment.

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I had installed the Columbus Laboratory,

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a $2 billion laboratory that
the European Space Agency had,

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you know, built to put up there.

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And after that installation we had a,

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a meal over in the Russian
segment with African American,

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Asian American, French, German, Russian,

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the first female commander
breaking bread at 17,500 miles

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per hour going around the
planet every 90 minutes,

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seeing a sunrise in the sunset,
every 45 while listening

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to Sade Smooth operator.

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And we're floating through,
through each other's mouths,

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we're looking at our respective hometowns.

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And that's when I got
that, that feeling of, hey,

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we're all connected as
a, as a family, as a,

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as a space family.

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But then we're seeing where
everyone that has been is

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and will be on planet Earth.

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We're watching this whole thing from this

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bird's eye view perspective.

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And your mind kind of
shifts into thinking that,

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wait a minute, I am part
of helping maybe solve some

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of these problems, maybe
bringing more people together,

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like in space, if, if we
don't get it right in space,

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we all die together.

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So if Yuri flips the wrong switch,

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if I flip the wrong switch,

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if Peggy flips the wrong
switch, we're gone.

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And I think that that same mentality

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or that same overview effect
being pushed down to the planet

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and people, it helps you get
along better with others.

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I was, I, I came back from my,
my second, my first mission

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and I installed that Columbus laboratory

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and I was in, I was in the Cape
of Good Hope in South Africa

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and I was walking up this hill

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and there were these
people that said, is Mr.

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Vin, Mr. Vin? I'm like, I
don't know anyone down here.

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Hi, yeah, I'm Mr. Melvin.

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They said, you installed
Air Columbus Laboratory

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to the International Space Station.

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Thank you. We have job security now.

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There were German flight
controllers there.

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And so just in that one moment,

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I helped them keep their jobs.

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But we connected on, hey,
we're working together

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as one, one family, one team.

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Yeah. The space race
is going to premiere on

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National Geographic
Channel February the 12th.

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Then on the 13th it'll be
on Hulu and Disney Plus.

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It's a great journey

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and it tells you what's possible
when people believe in you

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and you keep the legacy going strong,

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- Be flying in space.

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I smitten to turn up there doing
all these wonderful things.

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- Black history is American history.