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02. Speech Breakdown: TED Talk Chris Hadfield "What I Learned From Going Blind In Space"

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Space Shuttle Take Off - It's an Amazing Experience

"It is incredibly powerful to be onboard one of these things. You are in the grip of something that is vastly more powerful than yourself," he says. "After two minutes those solid rockets explode off and then you just have the liquid engines, the hydrogen and oxygen." And it's as if you're in a dragster with your foot to the floor and accelerating like you've never accelerated. It feels like someone's pouring cement on you or something until finally after about eight minutes and 40 seconds or so, we are finally at exactly the right altitude, exactly the right speed, the right direction,. The engine shut off and we're weightless and we're alive".

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