Butch Wilmore
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There we go.
Truth be told, that's not exactly how it goes, but okay, we'll go with that.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Oh, it goes faster than about anything goes.
When you're coming back to Earth, I mean, you're traveling, like I said, 25,000 miles an hour, roughly.
Yeah, you're moving.
Five miles a second.
Yeah, five miles a second.
They wasn't kidding when they said, I have the need for speed.
That's true.
You orbit the planet every 90 minutes.
You know, the circumference of the Earth is 25,000 miles at 17,500 miles an hour, which is what your orbiting speed is.
Yeah, five miles a second.
So you've been up there.
Is this Earth round?
Do the math.
464 days in space, 16 sunrises and sunsets a day.
So 16 orbits a day.
At 7,424 times around the planet.