I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.
Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield
I love it.
I love that there's this massive science fiction prop up there in low earth orbit, second brightest thing in the night sky after the Moon, traveling at the ridiculous speed of 28,000 kilometers an hour and zooming around the planet once every 90 minutes.
I love the pictures of the ISS, and I love the pictures from the ISS, the Canadarm and DEXTRE, incredible photos of the Earth, astronauts doing spacewalks, all that stuff, because they all look like pictures of the future, except they're being taken now.
I really love that people on the ISS have worn Star Trek uniforms and waved DON'T PANIC towels and shot David Bowie homage music videos and done all that sort of silly human stuff that has nothing to do with science.
Because they're living there, and that's what people do when they live someplace, silly human stuff - and we do that now, as a species, some of us sort of live in space, how incredibly cool is that? And what a great step into the future - I don't know about small steps and giant leaps, but at least we're moving forward.
And when they come back, the astronauts seem to love and appreciate the planet just a little bit more than when they left, which has to be a good thing.
So, again, I don't like the ISS - I LOVE IT.
- Sid
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