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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan. Timecode In: 00:01:12. Timecode out: 00:29:05. Notes: Oceanography; Space flight. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Two recordings, one Decoded MS Stereo and one Mono, mixed to Split Track. NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY RADIO EXPEDITIONS: "OCEANS OF LIFE" LOG OF INTERVIEW WITH KATHY SULLIVAN DAT #1 JULY 27, 1995 1:52 AC: We would like to describe this as a marine environment and that's really why we would like you to tell us about -you were already an ocean scientist when you went up in the -[KS: right] shuttle. Can you just -we ar hoping that you can tell us what it seemed like to you to look at the earth, see it that why, as you never had before, as a marine planet...and if that spoke to you in any way as a scientist -as a human being. 2:28 KS: one of the few things that happily NASA can not train people for well before flight, is the delight and awe of seeing the planet from orbit w/your own eyes. i came to that experience with a background as an ocean scientist, and a life-long amateur geography interest, and hundreds of hours looking at every other sky lab, and apollo space photo that ever had been taken, and still the first glimpse out the window of the atlantic ocean with bright white clouds over it is, just after engine cut off -as we cross the top of the atlantic on our start of our first orbit was nothing short of breath-taking. it really wasn't til my second flight that the work schedule was structured in a way that i could work things around, and get myself freed up for basically an entire crossing of the pacific ocean. which of course only takes ten or 15 mins. but to get a stable block of time where you didn't need to be distracted, didn't need to be tightly worrying about an approaching time line or dead line, and just gaze, just look broadly out to the 1000 mile distant horizon, and try to assimilate the incredible magnitude of view that you had. the diversity of phenomena in sizes and shapes and colors, even over the ocean realm. or look very intently right near by, below the space craft, or find structure of thunder storms, or frontal systems, incredible turquoise details, finely etched tropical islands or what ever. 3:59 AC: ....this is really a marine world that you are looking at -something that you perhaps understand and appreciate more than other astronauts, who are not ocean scientists. 4:23 KS: yes, you certainly come back recognizing very much ¬ first of all it's a water-world. probably the two predominant impressions non-scientific, non-earth scientist astronauts are those two. that the abundance of water in the atmosphere, in the form of clouds, reminds you, when you see them from that scale, in that span in a very different way than standing underneath a cloud or a front at your home town on the ground, you really come to appreciate the volume of water that our atmosphere contains. and then almost any inclination orbit but certainly the ones that space shuttles fly to most frequently, if you look at a map and look at the earth that will go underneath you between 28 and a half degrees north latitude, and 28 and a half degrees south latitude, it's mainly water. there's not that much land mass underneath that sort of orbit tracks. and so again, people come back realizing, gosh, you know i think they are saying to themselves -hey, i thought i was orbiting the earth, a dirt planet, and i came back and i saw -i remember seeing mainly lots of cloud -gee that's water, and lots of ocean w.lots of cloud over it, gee that's water. hum. i really didn't see so much dirt. when you live your life as a human being on this planet, the lion share of what you see, think about, read about, have in the newspapers, flying on tv, is about other human beings living on the dry land portions of this planet. so, a small, tiny piece of the ... (Notes truncated)
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