Astronaut Chris Hadfield Savours Fresh Air of Earth — Transcript

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1. 0:00he left Earth as an astronaut and
2. 0:02returned a star himself but spending
3. 0:05five months on the International Space
4. 0:07Station has done a number on Chris
5. 0:09Hatfield's body he spoke about the
6. 0:12hardship of that adjustment today from
7. 0:14Houston where he's in extensive rehab
8. 0:16yet still made time to share his
9. 0:19experiences kathern Cullen has
10. 0:21more weightlessness is Cool Chris
11. 0:24Hadfield calls weightlessness a
12. 0:27superpower now his superpower is is gone
13. 0:30today speaking from NASA's Johnson Space
14. 0:33Center he described what it feels like
15. 0:35to reconnect with gravity right after I
16. 0:38landed I could feel the weight of my
17. 0:40lips and tongue and I had I had to
18. 0:42change how I was talking I hadn't
19. 0:43realized I'd learned to talk with a
20. 0:45weightless tongue so so the subtle
21. 0:48things and the big things are taking
22. 0:49some readaptation to get used to in fact
23. 0:52it will take weeks of phys theapy to get
24. 0:55back to normal Hadfield is also
25. 0:57undergoing tests to see how five months
26. 0:59in space affected him he says he is
27. 1:01dizzy and sore but improving my crewmate
28. 1:04he and I are sort of tottering around
29. 1:06like two old duffers in an old folks
30. 1:09home being back on Earth isn't all bad
31. 1:12of course in space Hadfield spoke of
32. 1:15missing Earth's smells our first true
33. 1:18sense of being home was a uh a window
34. 1:21full of of the dirt of the earth and and
35. 1:24the smell of spring and the growing
36. 1:25grasses in Kazakhstan wafting in through
37. 1:27the open hatch the Canadian space agent
38. 1:30says it's had more than 200 requests to
39. 1:32interview Hadfield Hadfield suggests
40. 1:34it's not him but what he saw in space
41. 1:38that has so many so interested it's not
42. 1:41just one thing there was beautiful
43. 1:43imagery there's um there's poetry in
44. 1:45what's happening there's purpose in
45. 1:48what's happening there's there's a
46. 1:49beauty to it there's hope in it he was
47. 1:52asked about millions of dollars in cuts
48. 1:54to the Canadian space agency Hatfield
49. 1:56says the space business has always been
50. 1:59uncertain
51. 2:00the thing to remember is uh despite the
52. 2:03incredible difficulty in making this
53. 2:05happen Canada has laid a superb path
54. 2:09over the last 50 years when asked
55. 2:11Hadfield wouldn't say whether he'd like
56. 2:13to head the agency which is looking for
57. 2:15a new president he says right now he's
58. 2:17just focusing on being able to walk
59. 2:20again Katherine Cullen CBC News long
60. 2:24Quebec and about that beautiful imagery
61. 2:27Hatfield mentioned on Twitter he said
62. 2:29says I took a few thousand more photos
63. 2:32in space than I was able to post I'll
64. 2:35try to update from here on out with at
65. 2:37least one per day the first photo is
66. 2:40from the Mongolian Highlands that's a
67. 2:42frozen lake surrounded by sand dunes
68. 2:45Hatfield also tweeted his first meal
69. 2:48back on Earth