The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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