Jeremy Hansen

And as you're watching in crystal clarity with your human eye, the earth setting behind the moon, you can see the craters and the mountains on the moon in

the Earth setting behind the moon because there is no atmosphere.

It's just crystal clear as that occurs.

And then it's gone.

In a blink of an eye, it's gone.

Victor was up in the docking hatch window, and I was coming off a camera, and he said, come on up and take a look.

And he moved out of the way, and I looked out that docking hatch at the moon.

And at this point, the sun had eclipsed behind the moon.

So now we had this.

this dark gray sphere in front of us and a little bit of earth shine on the left side.

The sun was bouncing off the earth and illuminating a little bit of the left side of the moon.

And it was perfectly three-dimensional and nothing that I had prepared for in that entire journey prepared me to look out and see that.

And I was so thankful that I had my friend there.

And just to be able to... You witnessed it too.

I am not a religious person.

I just had no other way to... When you come back from space, first of all, you have a lot of adrenaline.

And we had gotten to the Navy ship, and I just... I'm looking across at Victor, and it popped into my head that on every Navy ship, there is a chaplain.

And I knew there would be a chaplain on that ship, so I asked if we could see the chaplain.

And when he walked in, I just completely lost emotional control.

Of everybody on that ship, I thought he was probably the one that could come the closest to relating to what the four of us had just been through.