Christina Koch
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And I feel like one person believes in me that I'm made to be an astronaut.
Teamwork, trust in your team.
We had an amazing relationship with the folks that designed the one piece of equipment that does all of the work or most of the work on reentry, which is the heat shield.
And we had an incredible relationship with them.
And we really came together as a team.
And I was thinking about them and I was thinking about this team.
And I was thinking about the team I was coming home to.
If someone counted, that's probably right.
I don't, I'm not sure.
Wow.
You know, I think that the thing that struck me and my takeaway on perspective that was different was how far away we were from our home planet.
When you're at the space station, you're about 250 miles up.
So we were about a thousand times farther.
And you can see a horizon.
You can make out landforms.
That's what, yeah, yeah.
And...
So the Earth doesn't look like tiny Earth.
It's gorgeous, big, beautiful Earth.
And there's so many things that come with that, with being able to identify places on Earth.