WEBVTT -- English 00:00:00.689 --> 00:00:03.649 It's hazards are hostile to us all. 00:00:03.649 --> 00:00:07.860 It's conquest deserves the best of all man kind. 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:13.480 And it's opportunity, for peaceful cooperation may never come again. 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.160 But why, some say, the moon? 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:19.179 Why choose this as our goal? 00:00:19.190 --> 00:00:23.489 And they may well ask, Why climb the highest mountain? 00:00:23.489 --> 00:00:27.480 Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:29.699 Why does Rice place Texas? 00:00:29.739 --> 00:00:33.399 We choose to go to the moon. (Laughter) (Applause) 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:35.899 We choose to go to the moon... (Applause continues) 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:39.640 (Music intensifies) 00:00:40.420 --> 00:00:46.200 We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:52.579 but because they are hard. 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.119 There's one smell up here that's really unique though, and that's the smell...ummm 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:01.060 We just call it the smell of space. 00:01:04.390 --> 00:01:07.659 You're inside the spaceship most of the time, the only time you can smell space is when 00:01:07.659 --> 00:01:09.730 you come back in from a space walk. 00:01:09.730 --> 00:01:15.819 And as you re-pressurize the air lock and open the hatch, there's this distinctive smell that's in the air. 00:01:15.819 --> 00:01:17.840 And it smells a little bit like being on a shooting range. 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.439 Like that sort of lingering gun powder cordite smell. 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.099 I heard you saw 32 sunsets everyday and sunrises. 00:01:25.099 --> 00:01:26.099 Yes. 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.340 On the station every 90 minutes you make an orbit. 00:01:28.349 --> 00:01:30.700 So you see sunset and sunrise. 00:01:30.700 --> 00:01:32.959 You go around the earth every 90 minutes? 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:33.620 Yes. 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:34.120 Wow. 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:35.719 You get to 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:36.519 Wow! 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:37.379 (Laughter) 00:01:37.379 --> 00:01:38.379 I want to do that! (slaps couch) 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.000 It's a very distinct smell and we...it's just the smell of space. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:44.700 It's really cool. 00:01:46.420 --> 00:01:47.930 So you go in this tiny capsule. 00:01:47.930 --> 00:01:50.739 And travel for two days, and dock to the station 00:01:50.739 --> 00:01:53.439 which takes a long time because they need 00:01:53.500 --> 00:01:55.939 to make sure you are safely, tightly docked. 00:01:55.939 --> 00:02:03.480 And then as soon as they wanted to open the hatch, the cosmonaut and astronaut that were with me told me, 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:06.359 "Are you ready for the smell of space? 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:11.199 Because it's a very unique smell and this is the only time you can smell it." 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:14.159 "So it's very rare." They opened the hatch, and I take a big whiff. 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:17.509 It smells something like a burnt cookie. 00:02:17.509 --> 00:02:18.949 It smells weird! 00:02:18.949 --> 00:02:20.789 People are baking in space! 00:02:20.789 --> 00:02:21.379 (Laughter) 00:02:21.500 --> 00:02:22.500 I know! 00:02:22.500 --> 00:02:23.500 I know! 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:30.139 You are now national heroes and you've had a couple of weeks in isolation and LRL to 00:02:30.139 --> 00:02:32.400 think about that. 00:02:32.449 --> 00:02:33.439 Do you. 00:02:33.449 --> 00:02:38.759 What are your initial feelings about being heroes, and how do you believe it will change 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:42.949 your lives, and do you think maybe you'll get another chance at going to the moon, or 00:02:42.949 --> 00:02:45.379 are you gonna be too busy being heroes. 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:49.560 (thoughtful pause) 00:02:51.659 --> 00:02:56.560 It was our pleasure to participate in one, great adventure. 00:02:58.580 --> 00:03:05.080 NASA developed the smell of space decades ago, but it's been clouded behind FOIA requests 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:06.039 and red tape. 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:10.520 Now we're working to bring the smell of space to the public, so that everyone can experience 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.259 outer space for themselves. 00:03:12.259 --> 00:03:15.419 Please support our project today. 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:20.599 I just see it as the beginning.