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Hey, good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Hi guys.

Good morning.

Briefing objectives today.

Familiarization with the Inspiration4 mission.

Understand training commitments and timelines

to the best that I can communicate them.

Okay, so mission overview here.

We're planning to launch on a dawn launch and a dawn recovery for three days.

I was a little intimidated to be the youngest member of the crew.

You know, I know the least about space and I just I didn't want to be weak.

But it's really cool, you know, all four of us are basically in a

different decade of our lives but we click so well

that I don't often feel like I'm the young one.

So we're probably going to go into Chris's neck of the woods for our wilderness team

building training event somewhere in the Cascades, likely Mount Rainier.

We're going to be in some intentionally uncomfortable

situations and to see how we do as a team.

Here's where it gets serious again.

Our mission to space is not guaranteed.

This is not Top Gun.

We are not the best of the best being sent to space here.

We still have to take this super serious.

There are a number of ways that any individual or the mission could be shut down.

If it looks like anything is going to be, you know, unsafe, could be delayed,

could be cancelled, you can fail in training.

Are we willing to accept going up to space if, you know, three crew members are

really laser focused and one's in, you know, Vegas gambling and drinking

every single night and obviously not coming in prepared?

I'm not, yeah.

I'm not looking at you, Chris, but seriously.

He just has that look.

This is the honeymoon period.

Everybody's excited, but there will be some sort of problems.

People die getting to space and people die coming home from space.

And we need to be really focused on making sure that that is not us.

And that means like training it and earning it every single

day from here forward and acting like we do belong here.

When we capture the when we join the other people when we zero in.

What is inspiration for?

What is the goal for the future once we are critique and

challenge ourselves him or her and choose to harness it?

Will he be the next who's willing to do that?

Will he be the one who nuts off?

Will he do it or won't do it?

Was that the law ofTopics.

Was that the Law ofreality?

Sarah Gillis is our lead trainer, so she's the one responsible for our

entire education to be prepared for safe flight, and she's ultimately the one that

signs us off, and the burden of, you know, will

we execute well or not will really fall on her.

So, the first action with the suit is that you're

going to be preparing all the openings on the suit.

So what this means is making sure the visors open.

My name is Sarah Gillis.

I'm 27, and my job title is Lead Space Operations Engineer.

I lead our astronaut training program.

This is a great opportunity.

Let's try donning and doffing your ear cases.

It is going to be red in your right ear, blue in your left.

Still not fully in.

We can keep practicing in just a minute, okay?

I want you guys to swim all the way in and get

your hands all the way through the opening.

And I want you guys to get your hands in the sleeves.

I probably knew an embarrassing little amount about space

by the time I actually started studying engineering.

I am a classically trained violinist.

My mother was a professional violinist and started me when I was two.

She certainly did not raise me to be an engineer.

She raised me to be a violinist.

So we played for many, many years, but it was

not... it was never what I was passionate about.

I had a mentor in high school who set me on the course to study aerospace engineering.

He was a former astronaut and he encouraged me to apply for engineering.

I had never considered it before that.

You should get one of them to play with.

She knows how to be our friend.

Three steps to disconnect the fire extinguisher.

Because there are times when that is exactly what we need.

There you go.

And she knows how to keep us in line, like when we are veering off course.

She is really smart and knows the Dragon capsule and systems inside and out.

I love the fact that she is a woman and I

love the fact that she is freaking kick ass.

SpaceX Dragon, we are ready for a suit leak check.

Copy Dragon, you have a go to initiate suit leak check.

She is also our core.

The core is like the NASA equivalent of Capcom.

So she is the voice we are going to hear during the actual space flight.

Awesome.

We are excited.

Thank you guys.

How are you feeling?

Ready to get out of there?

There are two hats that you have to wear to be successful at that.

One is the operational hat where you need to understand

exactly what actions you need to take to keep them safe.

On the other aspect, I care very deeply about every single one of these people now.

I am emotionally invested in it and you have to separate that out to be effective

at what you do when you need to wear your operational hat.

Dragon, SpaceX come check.

For our crew two mission five months ago, I was on console.

SpaceX Endeavour, we hear you loud and clear.

How you doing, sir?

Copy that, doing well.

Looking forward to supporting you guys today.

And there was a very late notice possible conjunction so we got word that there

might be an object that could come very close to Dragon.

For awareness, we have identified a leap-breaking possible

conjunction with a fairly close missed distance to Dragon.

We had very little time and had to respond very quickly.

We do need you to immediately proceed with

suit donning and securing yourselves in seats.

They were fully configured for sleep.

They need to rapidly get into their spacesuits.

Because in the event of a depressurization, where an object

punctured a hole in the spacecraft, it means that all of the breathable air

inside the cabin could potentially leave the cabin and leave them in a vacuum.

Which means they'll get in suits, 100% oxygen

will be fed to the suits, and they'll pressurize.

Suits are little spaceships that keep them safe

in the event that their atmosphere disappears.

The time of closest approach for this event is at 1743.

And then there's a time of closest approach exactly when

we think the object would be closest to the capsule.

Please ensure visors are closed and zippers are

closed prior to TCA in approximately 20 seconds.

Dragon SpaceX, we have passed TCA with no impact.

Immediately, there's this massive weight that's lifted off your chest.

But it's...

That was probably the hardest thing, stepping off console that day,

was the panic for my friends in space.

You can't process it when you're in the moment.

You can't...

You can't think about it or else you can't do your job.

But as soon as you step off console,

you care so deeply about those people that it...

It is overwhelming to think back on what just happened.

I probably still need therapy, let's be honest.

For Inspiration4, it's a unique situation.

It's our first commercial crew.

The Dragon vehicle is largely an autonomous vehicle.

The software takes care of what the vehicle needs to do.

So from that perspective, what crew get trained on

are the ways in which they can back up the automation.

There are capabilities that are provided to them that

they need to be trained on to back up the systems.

But it's a very smart and capable vehicle.

Not only do we need to train them how to live in Dragon and be successful in

Dragon, we also need to provide background on what it's like to live in space,

how you move in space, what the space environment actually is.

In the very early days of spaceflight, when we had much

less experience as a nation, it was quite challenging.

Simulators in those early days were actual flying machines.

and I had to get a team up.

I'm not planning to go to the moon.

Fast forward to today's day and age, when we have the experience of all those

decades, we really do know how to prepare people for spaceflight.

The biggest differences in our training versus a normal astronaut is that we're

not going to a space station, we're also not doing a spacewalk.

But outside of that, it's all going to be the same.

We have a spacecraft that we need to take through a lot of phases of flight.

It's hard, but I absolutely thought, with my background, I know what to expect.

And I got it wrong.

There's a lot of material.

Every week we would just get stacks of stuff.

You're showing up at 7 a.m., leaving at 7 p.m.

There's no gaps in the schedule at all.

You're just taking down as much coffee as you can, and then

you're coming back and studying and doing it the next day.

A lot of the training focuses on operating the Dragon.

Knowing how it works.

How to access cargo.

How to get out equipment.

They're going to have to go through emergency response.

What food they're going to eat.

They're going to have to go through a selection of food options.

I'm thinking I probably won't eat much in space.

They put us through the ringer pretty quick.

It really mirrors exactly what the NASA astronauts all go through.

What makes an effective crew member on a spacecraft?

What makes an effective crew member on a spacecraft?

You have to keep yourself safe.

The nuts and bolts of knowing how to push buttons and when and reading a checklist

is pretty trainable.

The interesting thing about space flight is you can't go to space to train for space.

You have to train in Earth environments, simulators,

situations that are analogous to space flight.

And then in your brain, integrate all of that into a neat

package that prepares you mentally for what you're getting into.

You have to be well trained to fly.

You have to be able to fly a SpaceX spacecraft.

You have to be brave to fly a SpaceX spacecraft.

You have to be able to tolerate a centrifuge.

You have to be able to tolerate g-forces.

Okay, Jared, confirming location of that door release handle?

Lower right.

Get back there, got it, good.

You have to be able to over-cook.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, liftoff.

If

you go through your training, maybe you're

going to learn that you're not qualified to go.

Look at him smiling.

He's having a good time.

This centrifuge was where you get to experience what it's going to be like when

you launch in a rocket and what it's going to be

like when you come back through the atmosphere.

You're going to be experiencing four and a half times your own body weight.

It's like a couple of your largest buddies sitting

on your chest, you know, pushing you into your seat.

Feeling that for several minutes in a row.

Have you ever done anything like this?

Not this, not really.

I mean, just there's that little one at space camp they had, you know.

It's not the same.

They show you're flying through these mountains and really you're like,

why are they showing me something like this?

It's something that's going to make me throw up.

No, but this is cool.

I think.

SpaceX Dragon, I think we have splashdown.

Man, the worst part of this is that we can't ask him anything.

When we did our centrifuge training, they separated us after we completed it

because they didn't want us to tell the next crew member

going up that they had some things in store in the centrifuge.

Do you want your NSX?

Oh, sure.

I'll stick one in my leg here.

Do you have any questions?

No questions.

Copy that.

1G.

And 3G.

Now climbing to 6Gs.

Right when everything was supposed to be normal.

You had this super loud horn going off, which is exactly the

alarm that happens in Dragon when an emergency triggers off.

And then some violent shaking.

And ultimately it became a launch escape where, you know, the Falcon became

unstable on launch and Dragon had to separate and come back.

Dragon SpaceX Splashdown.

I have nausea here, by the way, just so you know.

All right.

Breathing discomfort?

None.

Chest pressure or discomfort?

None.

None.

All right.

How was the amount of that?

Moderate.

Okay.

I'm on my way down to check you out.

You okay?

And feel free to use the bag if you need it.

Hey, Chris, do you have your bag at the ready?

Oh, no.

Oh, he's a trooper.

At the end, we simulated Splashdown on the ocean.

And the boat got a little rocky.

How are you feeling?

I'm a little sick after that.

Have you ever grown up from the ocean sick?

Yeah, I get sick on small boats.

Hi.

Ready?

No.

Yeah.

Yes, you are.

I'm ready.

Hey, man.

How you doing?

Good.

Let the medicine do its thing.

Hopefully, this won't happen in space.

Copy nominal trajectory.

Chris forged the way before me, and so I've gotten to be like,

oh, Chris threw up.

Okay, I need to think about this.

Do you have any reactions that surprised you?

A little bit of nausea.

I was this close to being just right there next to him.

I'm going to definitely take the docs up on their

offers of anti-nausea medicine when it comes time.

Well, that's an option.

It is absolutely an option to take anti-nausea medicine.

I've heard that most astronauts do so.

Six Gs.

I do.

Four seconds.

The total profile duration is approximately a minute and a half.

Haley, I need you to keep your eyes open, please.

They had flight psychiatrists there that were evaluating us on the screens while it

was taking place and then afterwards during an interview.

This has implications as us as four, you know,

human beings going into spacecraft, right?

This has implications to SpaceX.

What if this goes wrong?

Haley's doing great.

She's doing great.

She's just rock solid in there.

She is.

Three, two, one.

You know, they have obviously as much interest as we do to making sure this is

safe and that the crew that they're sending up can competently handle,

you know, some pretty difficult circumstances.

It's great.

Coming out of it, everybody was smiling.

Everybody was super excited and everybody was like,

all right, when do we start the rest of our training?

Let's get going.

That was fun.

Good.

Yeah.

And that was kind of the moment where I was like,

okay, I think we can get through probably anything.

And for somebody who's never done this before, pretty doggone good.

When you guys launch, I'm going to come to Florida and watch that.

I'll be cheering you on, going, go, go.

Hello.

I can't wait to tell you all about the day.

The day I got back to St. Jude after my big announcement that I was going to

space, I was stopped by this mother and daughter.

And the mom came up to me and she had tears in her eyes.

And she said, I just wanted to thank you for what you're doing.

This mission is giving my daughter so much hope.

I asked the little girl, I said, what's been going on?

And she said she was feeling discouraged because

she can't run or jump like her siblings can.

And I told her, you know, I can't run or jump like my little brother either.

But I said, it's not stopping me from going to space.

She can do this too.

If I can do it, she can do it.

And you don't need to run or jump to accomplish dreams.

Are you more excited or more afraid?

I'm not scared at all right now.

Good.

After that, I was walking back to my office with tears in my eyes because I was

like, this is why we're going on this mission.

Okay.

Well, text me.

You didn't text at all today.

I will.

All right.

All right.

We're talking to you.

I know, I'm glad we get to catch up.

We're going to die for you still.

I know.

I'm so excited.

You can say everything, okay?

Okay, I will.

All right.

Talk to you later.

Love y'all.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you, baby.

Thank you, baby.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

My favorite music genres are, like, Indian.

Indie music, kind of hipster, and 80s pop, and Spanish reggaeton.

I was a Spanish major throughout college, and then I spent some time in South

America, and that's when I really fell in love with the whole genre of reggaeton.

That's my pump-up music.

The music I listen to if I'm nervous or just need some

encouragement, somehow it just fills me with all the good vibes.

My life aspirations absolutely changed in that year I was going through treatment.

Ultimately entering college, I decided I wanted to be a physician assistant,

and that's why I decided to major in Spanish, to work with the many

Spanish-speaking patients at St. Jude, and then also through their global program.

They have many clinics they're affiliated with throughout Central and South America,

and I wanted to work and help kids there live.

We do have an arrangement.

For when she does all this international travel, she doesn't tell me the stories

until she gets home, and I know she's safe.

And then she tells me about all these wild adventures.

If I let my mom anxiety influence her life, she

wouldn't do nearly the things that she's doing.

She wouldn't live in a big city.

She wouldn't travel the world.

But I wouldn't stop her from doing any of that.

I honestly come from the best family ever.

Probably other people think that, too, but I firmly believe it.

I knew I was so loved and so supported, and my family is really strong.

And we've been through a lot together and it's really bonded us.

My dad and I were so close.

He and I were the most alike in the family.

He was actually the journalist for the newspaper in our small town, and he loved

these sweet little heartwarming stories, It's a little bit of a breeze.

You just kind of see the beauty in things that maybe everyone didn't see.

When I was going through treatment, he was actually still working in Baton Rouge.

And he and my brother would drive up every weekend.

It was a six-hour drive.

And whenever I knew they were coming on a Friday night, I

would sit on the couch and just stare out the window for hours.

And when I saw his car pull up, I was so excited.

He definitely taught me a lot of appreciating

other cultures and going out of my comfort zone.

I thought he had cancer before he was diagnosed.

He was having all this upper back pain, like in

his spine, and he was losing weight really rapidly.

I just felt sick.

I knew something was really wrong.

We found out that he had cancer.

We found out that he had metastatic disease in his thoracic spine.

We knew it was really bad, and I knew that he was going to die.

We thought he had more time than he did, but he was so sick.

And they tried a couple different things, but I mean,

it didn't give him the time that we were hoping.

He was such a supportive and proud father.

And I think he would be more proud of me for going out

of my comfort zone than for actually going to space.

I wish he was here because he would be absolutely loving this.

But, you know, he's not.

My husband would be out of this world excited.

He would be thrilled.

But, you know, I think that he's thrilled now.

I think he knows.

I think he's going to have a very unique perspective on her mission.

My title is Mission Pilot.

And Jarrett is also a pilot, but his title is the Commander.

Jarrett's role really is to make the decisions about the capsule and the crew.

And my job as the pilot is to back him up on that.

So in just a bit, Dr. Proctor, who is the pilot on Inspiration4,

is going to show up here and we're going to just reorient her with flying.

These are Aramaki MB339s, so Italian jets.

And then obviously that's a Douglas A4 Skyhawks, if you ever saw a Top Gun.

Did you fly a Spitfire?

I didn't.

It was just a gift.

I got my pilot's license in 2007, technically.

But that was when I was 36.

But I had always just loved making model airplanes.

And wanting to fly jets and stuff like that.

And you didn't get to.

I know!

I can't even... I gotta say, that's one of the highlights of everything.

It's a good opportunity since she's been out of the cockpit for a little bit to get

familiar with checklist drills and radio work, which is all,

like, carries over perfectly to Dragon and the spacecraft.

So once you get into the Dragon systems and how many,

you know, flight computers and strings they have...

The Dragon capsule is designed to be autonomous, so it can go up into space and

then come back through its flight computer.

However, there are contingencies and things that could happen, and that's where

me as the pilot and Jared as the commander, we really have to understand the systems.

It's gonna be windy!

When things go wrong, Dragon is designed for the crew, specifically myself and Dr.

Proctor, to take control and be able to come home safely.

Air source select.

We are on both.

Cleared, ready for takeoff.

Okay.

Well, what could possibly go wrong?

There's V1.

Rotate.

You ever lose your Wi-Fi connection in your house or your hotel?

If we can't have, like, 100% perfect internet, you know, in your home,

believe me, you don't have 100% perfect comms and communication in space.

So I have gear down, three green, no red, full flaps, down and indicating

engine sick is off, igniters are on, yaw damp is off, and we're clear for the option.

That's the final checklist.

There are actually parts of our mission in space and the orbit where we will have no

contact, because it's still based largely on ground stations and satellites that

were put up in the 80s and 90s, in which case, then, the responsibility

shifts and swings significantly over to us as the crew to take care of ourselves.

So, totally get the, like, writing down what they're telling you, like,

the terms of some of your responses, because you are already past 7,000.

Okay, so my situational awareness.

What is unique about this mission is that we're

taking, you know, more or less ordinary people, right?

Okay, now you're going to tell them you're on the RNAV 1-7 approach.

Jared is taking on so much more work, so much more labor, so much more complexity.

Hello, Tower, this is November 9-8 Yankee.

He's not only got to take care of himself, but he's got, you

know, three other men and women that we need to take care of.

You want to be more in the moment?

When you're giving them information, you're,

you know, hey, I'm 17-5 for flight level 230.

Just use the information that's in front of you to do that.

For the ILS 24, Yankee Papa.

Nice.

You're a great guy.

This is kind of fun, I got to admit.

Every time I get to hang out with Jared, I learn to appreciate him more and more.

He's a fast thinker, and I like that.

But he's also encouraging and supportive.

So when I think about myself and the leader that I want to be, he inspires me.

We will earn this very, very unique opportunity in life to go and see our

world from a perspective that only 600 other people

throughout history have ever had a chance to do.

So I think that's kind of fulfilling my leadership role in this.

Clear to land, Yankee Papa.

Yay!

Nice work.

Good job.

Really early on in our conversations with SpaceX, we

got to look at what the training plan would entail.

And it was a lot of academics.

It was a lot of simulator training.

But also, like, we need to get together and try and accomplish

something as a team in a challenging physical environment.

This is a good opportunity for getting out and hitting the mountain, which is why we

picked a climbing endeavor on Mount Rainier.

MUSIC MUSIC Now, this is not dissimilar to what NASA does.

I mean, they want to put crews in challenging but achievable circumstances.

Like, let's set a really hard goal and try and get it done.

And let's try and help people get, you know, comfortable being uncomfortable.

MUSIC

I think no matter what, we're going to see some... It's going to look beautiful.

Whatever happens, we get out there, just know anyone else

who attempts this mountain, it's not 100% success rate.

Every trip I've been on, people are coming back down.

They train for six months.

So, you guys had a month's notice, really.

MUSIC When I first heard that we were going to climb

a mountain, I was kind of like, Jared is crazy.

Like, why is he doing this?

Pretty much every NASA crew has done something like this for the last 50 years.

I definitely like replicating what has worked for others on their missions.

All this and more is going to fit into that little backpack.

Already this is uncomfortable, learning how to pack a

pack and try not to show too many people my undergarments.

Or, you know, what color is he wearing?

That's not important.

You want them mostly unzipped.

Last thing you want to do is be fiddling in the cold, wet snow with zippers.

There are things that are unexpected that happen on every single mission.

So I think it's good to work and build on some of those skills here on Earth before

we experience it either in orbit or coming back.

So I'm a hiker, and so doing 15 miles, I'm a rabbit where I can't pace myself.

We don't need to see, you know, who can move the fastest up the mountain.

We don't need to see who can carry the most weight.

We're going to set a goal that's difficult but achievable, which I think is going to

have a lot of parallels to being in a Dragon spacecraft for a couple days.

I'm ready to go.

Let's do it.

So this is a picture of Camp Muir, right?

This is our goal.

Camp Muir sits on a ridge line that separates

the Muir snowfield from the Cowlitz Glacier.

In the mountains, we don't measure things in horizontal

distances, the reason being it's pretty deceptive.

Tomorrow is going to be a 4,400-foot vertical day.

My biggest fear is that something's going to

happen and I'm not going to be able to go to space.

The rod in my leg has actually broken twice, like, pretty out of the blue.

And I just keep thinking, like, every time I have a little pain in my leg,

like, it can't break.

When it was snowing, I didn't even go outside.

I was like, I'll slip and I can't go to space.

If this opportunity was taken away, I would be so devastated.

How's it feel, Haley?

So far, fine.

I think I'm more fearful of her going up Mount Rainier than the space mission.

What if something happens to her leg?

And she can't go.

And that's just the reality of being a childhood cancer survivor that has an

internal prosthetic, that has broken in the past.

To put you at ease, there is zero possibility of an avalanche.

Right.

There's plenty of other shit you should be worried about.

But avalanche is not one of them.

Just making sure all my stuff is where I want it to be.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Does that feel a little better?

Honestly, that feels better, yeah.

Okay.

Thanks.

All righty, guys.

This is our jumping-off point.

Did everyone get a chance to put a little sunscreen on?

I know that seems funny right now, buried under the cloud,

but there's still a lot of radiation coming through.

So sunscreen, lip balm, and let's go glasses on the whole time.

If you don't wear the glasses, you'll end up with pretty bloodshot eyes

and potentially even doing some harm to yourselves.

Now, we're gonna work with you guys on technique as we

get going uphill to try to save the most energy we can.

We have a big day in front of us.

It's manageable, but it's still gonna be a lot of hard work.

You guys walk along.

Give that little scuff with your boots.

Nice, slow, steady rhythm.

This is definitely a tortoise and hare kind of situation.

Hannah's gonna lead us right out of here, and let's

stay just maybe two, three feet between each other.

So far, feeling good.

This is doable.

I think it's gonna get harder, though.

Looking good, guys.

Make sure we're taking nice, deep breaths.

Not really sure where we were going because we

couldn't see where we were headed the entire time.

We were socked in.

We were in this cloud bank that kind of, like, enveloped us.

So you could see the person in front of you, and that's it.

I went into it really optimistically slash slightly

naively, saying, I got up to 70 minutes on the treadmill.

I will be fine.

And really, I didn't know how long we were gonna be hiking the first day.

Haley, she has a significant disadvantage when

it comes to going uphill on icy conditions.

But she's also tough as nails.

And she just has grit and determination.

And I think that that's what helped get her through that

most trying part of her life when she was 10 years old.

You all right?

Yeah, I just don't know how I'm gonna get up.

You're almost at the top, and you're doing it.

It's not easy dragging uphill.

And the higher up you go, the harder it's gonna get because

you're getting tired and, you know, you've got less air.

So as we go up in altitude, the pressure drops, so

we counter that by throwing in those pressure rests.

Three-fourths of the way up, you know, my legs were dying.

And then Sai's there, and she's struggling just as hard as I am, if not more so.

You know you're gonna get there.

It might take a little bit, but you will get there.

We are almost there.

So you've got some back weight there.

Yeah, it's just heavy.

That's all right.

I'll take it.

I got to that point where I'm like, oh, my goodness, this is never gonna end.

And, you know, Jarrett was like, let's take your backpack.

Oh, yeah.

Let's do it.

So when we talk about the leadership seat, the

pillar that he's in, he really manifests that.

How are you feeling, Haley?

I feel great.

I didn't feel good earlier.

Your footwork is rock solid.

It's like you're getting more comfortable for sure.

Yeah.

One last push.

Over there.

Fifteen minutes.

Yeah.

We can do anything for fifteen minutes.

Yeah.

You guys ready?

Fifteen-minute push.

So like, basically, the amount of time we're gonna get to space.

Yeah, pretty much.

All right, let's do it.

One more step.

One more step.

One more step.

You're hitting 10,000 feet.

So altitude should be hitting you.

You know, when you launch, you'll be well above.

Look at that.

You're already right there.

Visualize it, guys.

Home stretch.

Let's do it.

And we made it.

I am so proud.

Awesome.

All right, guys.

I want a group hug.

I was so awesome.

Everybody had one giant group hug at the top of the mountain.

I wanted and needed that so bad at that moment.

Because I was on the verge of just breaking down.

You guys crushed it.

I know.

The best leaders are the ones that are

encouraging their team to be their best selves.

And that's exactly what Jared's doing.

If I knew that we'd be hiking for nine and a

half hours, I would have said, I can't do this.

But I'm glad I didn't know, because now I know how much I can do.

And I realized I was putting a limit on myself that didn't need to be there.

This is the warmest out of the ten.

You know, the lessons that I personally learned was not being

afraid to ask for help and show vulnerability and weakness.

So to have, you know, my commander come and be able to say, yeah, we got you.

I think that that was really powerful for me.

I just, I don't want to move.

I don't, I just want to lay down and not have to do anything.

I'm so happy to be...

in my tent.

They did fantastic.

I'm so proud.

I'm like, I can't stop smiling, actually.

I want everyone to understand what it's like to be very, very uncomfortable and go

through challenging circumstances and push yourself in a situation to an outcome that

you never thought was achievable and do that all here on Earth now before we're

faced with that situation, you know, up there in space.

Hello?

Hey, it's Hailey.

Good.

I'm calling you on like a satellite phone.

You're safe, right?

Yeah, no, it's... I'm at the hospital.

I'm not at the hospital.

No.

I'm at the campsite.

We hiked up for nine and a half hours yesterday.

Oh, my God.

How's your leg?

Surprisingly great.

Oh, my God.

A couple years after my dad died, I found

one of the boards I had broken in Taekwondo.

He wrote on there and he said, I'm more proud of you for

conquering your fear than for earning your brown belt.

Love, Dad.

I looked at that board so much before the mountaineer

trip because I was nervous to go on Mount Rainier.

And I knew that he would be more proud of me for

conquering my fear than for conquering the mountain.

But anyway, I just wanted to call and let you know that I'm fine.

I'm actually doing great.

I'm so glad.

And surprisingly, I love mountaineering.

All right.

Love you.

Okay.

Bye.

A couple of people have said you're going to be

closer to your dad than ever when you're in space.

It's a really nice thought.

I don't know if I believe that's true because I believe he's with me all the time.

I woke up to the morning sky first.

Baby blue, just like we did first.

When I get up off this ground, I shade the leaves back

down to the brown, brown, brown, brown, till I'm clean.

Astronauts often talk about something called the overview effect.

Frank Gorman, the commander of Apollo 8, said, this must be what God sees.

Now, whether you believe in God or don't believe in God, or aren't sure if you

believe in God, the overview effect lets you see the

world in a way you cannot see it without going to space.

You can't see any of the borders we fight over.

You just see land.

You see desert.

You see mountains and jungles and oceans and seas.

You don't see the politics.

You don't see inequality.

You just see our improbable planet in its pure and naked state.

That changes you.

These folks, the inspiration for our crew, those

people will never see the world the same way again.

This mission is opening that door to the entire seven billion of us.