'It’s sensory overload, it’s mesmerizing, it’s amazing.'
, astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore described a spiritual experience he felt while fixing an issue on the outside of the International Space Station during his third trip up in 2014.
"I came around the corner and boom, there I was," the astronaut told the newspaper. "I could see myself from head to toe in this mirror. That’s the first time I had ever seen me in a space suit. You don’t have mirrors that you look at. I had seen video of me. To actually look and see that it was me was kind of striking."
"It’s a very, very black sky with the sun shining contrasting with the beauty of the earth and the contrast of colors," Wilmore said. "And about that moment I looked down at the earth and saw Hawaii going by... The beauty of the contrast of the island and the blue water and the clouds you could see and the blackness of the sky of space and the space station, the sliver and the big huge gold solar arrays and the contrasting color.
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