Crew offers afterthoughts on mission


by Carlos Zapata - Associate Editor

"For me it is just the memory of floating and looking at the earth and knowing what that is like, and the images that we have in our minds is different from what you record on tape. the only way to really capture it is being there and seeing it with your own eyes." Cdr. Kenneth Bowersox, USN, Commander

"If you looked down upon the earth and you recognize we are a small part of a very big universe. And that we all are a big family. It [earth] is great! It is a magical place. It is real hard to explain unless you are there you can't really understand what I am talking about. Earth is absolutely magnificent." Albert Sacco Jr., Ph. D. Payload Specialist (Crystal Growth)

"It is something that once you have experienced it, you can't really share it because there is no way of describing it. They say a picture is worth ten thousand words, and may be a movie is worth ten thousand pictures, and an experience like that is worth ten thousand movies. It is so hard to convey..." Cdr. Michael Lopez-Allegria, USN, Flight Engineer/Mission Specialist.


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