The Great Big Beautiful Podcast

Episode 167: Commander Terry Virts


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Today, we're looking to the stars...and back to Earth. Commander Terry Virts joins us to talk about his career, his 210+ days in space, and his new book View From Above: An Astronaut Photographs the World. Col. Virts was pilot on one of the final space shuttle missions - 2010's STS-130 aboard the Endeavor - where he helped assemble the International Space Station. In 2014, he returned to the ISS aboard the Soyuz as part of Expedition 42 and stayed through Expedition 43, when we assumed command of the space station. On this episode, we chat about his new book, how he managed his time aboard the ISS with all of the competing demands, his preparation for space, the surprises that waited for him up there, sleeping in zero G, why he doesn't have enough faith to be an atheist, and the biggest mistake he made in space.
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