Christina Koch

and to carry that burden of knowing that there is luck involved.

And we aren't necessarily the perfect people if you looked all across the billions on the planet, but we're the ones that have the honor and responsibility, and we're going to do our best.

Integrity and Carol Crater.

Loud and clear.

Thank you.

Well, maybe the theme is home because when people ask me what surprised me the most about my space station mission and what you saw that surprised you the most, I say it was how you felt when you looked down at your home, where you're from, where you grew up.

a place that you learn to identify on a map by the shape of the landforms.

And for me, the first time I saw the Outer Banks of North Carolina come around and I first realized they crystallized, that that's where they were, and I knew what it felt like to be on that spot on planet Earth, it was home and it took my breath away.

And something on this mission that was a little different was we couldn't make out specific landforms or places on Earth.

but the entire planet was home.

And it was so far away and so perfect that I almost expected I could look out the other window and see Neptune, and that wouldn't be home.

And the fact that that entire planet was home and there was so much else that wasn't was just something I'm still coming to terms with.

It was so small.

I can start with this, but it's just because I have an anecdote because I don't know the real answer to that.

But about two years ago, I decided I wanted to learn to swim.

And I am not coordinated.

I'm the least coordinated person you can imagine.

And my husband watched me struggle for about a year and a half straight to try to learn to swim.

I would...

actually try to learn just to kick my feet and go straight in the pool and i would go backwards and people would say what were you doing was that some kind of a drill and i would say no i just that bad at swimming and my husband told me honey you were made to be an astronaut you were not made to swim