He was at the Cupola module taking pictures of planet Earth, thinking of all the wars, movements and inventions that summed up the human race. It was an odd feeling, to be orbiting the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour, to feel as if he was momentarily suspended in time. It felt like “real life” was not happening to him at the moment. All the people he loved, all his hopes and dreams were attached to that blue planet before him. Although he had now spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station, he still saw it as a maze. “It’s about the size of a soccer field,” Commander Terry Willmore told him when they first arrived. “You’ll get used to it in a few months.” This was Willmore’s second time at the ISS, but his first time as commander. Besides Willmore, there was another astronaut aboard, Flight Engineer Samantha Rogers. Samantha was also a researcher and scientist. If everything went according to plan, the other three crew members from Russia would be arriving in a matter of hours.
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