Spending nine months on the ISS is an absolute dream, as work is clear and meaningful discoveries are made, retired Astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman says.
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00:00You've been on board the International Space Station.
00:04Explain to us what it's like there and is spending nine months there pretty much unimaginable?
00:11Well, it's an unimaginable dream to spend nine months there.
00:14I spent almost six months there and would have spent another six months,
00:19partly because the work that we do up there.
00:21It's really clear, especially when you're up there,
00:24that every single experiment data point that you are collecting,
00:27which are experiments about going further in space,
00:29but really experiments that mean something back here on Earth,
00:32like growing food and understanding pollution and all sorts of really important things.
00:38So the work is important, but it's also without.
00:41We have a little tiny bit of gravity, but literally without gravity.
00:45Life is different and we can do a lot of experiments,
00:49but we also get to literally fly everywhere.
00:52Like my hair, if you have any, if anybody looks online,
00:55you'll see pictures of my hair being about this big up there.
00:58And it just reminds you that you are in a place that is really special
01:01and the things that you discover, you're discovering for everybody back here on Earth.
01:05So I do know Sonny and Butch,
01:07and I know that they are so excited about spending a long time up there instead of eight days.