The View Of Earth Is Spectacular.

Then During The Mission Itself, I Used The Space Shuttle's Robot Arm To Release A Satellite Into Orbit.

The Most Anxious Time Was During Launch, Just Because That Is So Dramatic.

We Can See Cities During The Day And At Night, And We Can Watch Rivers Dump Sediment Into The Ocean, And See Hurricanes Form.

The View Of Earth Is Spectacular From Space. Most People Imagine That When Astronauts Look Out The Window Of The Shuttle They See The Whole Earth Like That Big Blue Marble That Was Made Famous By The Flights That Went To The Moon. But The Shuttle Is Much, Much Closer Than Those Astronauts Were. So We Don't See The Whole Planet, The Whole Ball At Once, We Just See Parts Of It.

The Food Isn't Too Bad. It's Very Different From The Food That The Astronauts Ate In The Very Early Days Of The Space Program.