If you have not run into his work previously, Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut who fulfilled his childhood dream with two shuttle missions and has the talent and more importantly the personal insight to share with us what it is like. If you are not among the 21 million plus viewers, here is his cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity - it was filmed on a shuttle mission, then the music track added after he returned.
There is another video though that shows his real thoughts and values to us. It is a TED Talk and he goes into a lot of what it is like to perform this unnatural act of space flight, enjoy the unusual splendor of it all --- and then have a potentially catastrophic event happen "up there".
I dare you not to get chills during the launch sequence at 3:10, or to not think just a bit differently about things (like the universe) when he describes "looking down at the rest of everything" at 7:40.
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