Reid Wiseman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I believed, I think we all did, I was optimistic.
I believed we were going to come back, most likely.
I wasn't sure of it, but I was pretty confident we would most likely come back.
And so I was just trying to enjoy the experience.
And it's really quite an incredible experience, like all the things and feels of that.
Like the first thing you see is this red plasma building out the window, and then it became like this green and blue, and it was flashing like somebody was out there welding.
It was so bright, it hurt to look at.
I put my dark visor down.
The G-forces are just squeezing you into the seat.
You haven't been in gravity in a while.
And then eventually the drogues come out, and it's shaking you around.
It's all violence.
And then it drops you again as they detach.
And then the mains come out, and then Christine and I were sitting beside each other.
So when the mains came out, we were like, yes.
Really was, because from that moment on, there's still things that can happen.
You can still have, like, dangerous gases come in the vehicle and all these things we train for.
But we had a plan for all of them.
That was the first time where I felt like, whatever the capsule throws at us right now, I think we can survive it.
Yeah.