Chris Hadfield describes the beauty of the spacewalk — Transcript

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1. 0:00I don't know what what a ballet dancer
2. 0:01feels like just before they get on to do
3. 0:03Swan Lake, but Swan Lake is not random
4. 0:05when they get on stage. And there's not
5. 0:06a lot of of freedom to do new stuff when
6. 0:09you're out there. And spacew walks are
7. 0:11choreographed to that level. But also,
8. 0:14you can easily trip and fall in either
9. 0:15one and and make a fool of yourself or
10. 0:17or wreck the whole production.
11. 0:21[Music]
12. 0:23you're in the airlock and everything's
13. 0:25closed out and you've been doing this
14. 0:26multi multi-stage process and you
15. 0:28manually um you've depressurized it so
16. 0:31that you're at the vacuum and your your
17. 0:32space suit is working properly and it
18. 0:34gets so quiet
19. 0:36cuz the pressure goes down to really low
20. 0:38pressure in your suit. So it's it's
21. 0:40peaceful. All you hear is yourself
22. 0:41breathing. And then you turn this huge
23. 0:44crank to open up the uh the hatch. And
24. 0:46then you manually lift it like taking a
25. 0:48manhole cover off and chunk it up into
26. 0:51place. And then you still can't see
27. 0:52anything because there's a fabric cover
28. 0:54to keep the temperature. So you got to
29. 0:55reach around and undo all this velcro
30. 0:56and push this thing out of the way. And
31. 0:58then suddenly you're in space.
32. 1:04Visually it's everything. the the world
33. 1:07is there ex pouring by in 8 km a second
34. 1:11in in all kaleidoscopic uh unbidden
35. 1:14glory and and the universe is right
36. 1:17there on the other side of you.
37. 1:18Everything forever is right there and
38. 1:20you're like holding on with one hand in
39. 1:21the middle. It's uh it's phenomenal. I
40. 1:24really like it. It's a lot of fun
41. 1:26walking in space and uh I was lucky
42. 1:29enough to be outside for about 15 hours
43. 1:31over two spacew walks which is 10 times
44. 1:33around the world.