Victor Vescovo

It feels very ancient, very dark.

You know, you get this immense sense of time.

Climbing Everest is like Mortal Kombat, going into the octagon and just getting the hell beat out of you and still trying to survive.

Going into space is like going to a Metallica rock concert.

It is just awesome.

You're with your friends.

You're going up vertically at Mach 3 on a ballistic trajectory.

It happens in like three minutes.

You're in space.

You know, the...

Chime goes off, you unbuckle and you float out of your chair.

You have these huge windows and you're seeing the earth from space.

There's no kidding, you are in space.

You are looking down on the earth.

It is a white sun on a black background.

No atmospheric distortion to make it yellow.

You see the very thin veneer of the atmosphere.

And there's something that astronauts coined in the Apollo program called the overview effect, that when you get to space and you see the earth from space, it can change you psychologically.

I believe that is true.

I think it affects different people to a greater or lesser degree, but yes, you look down on the earth, you don't see boundaries.