Hello From Above Our Magnificent Planet Earth.

Things Are Going Very Smoothly. As Expected, There Are Some Minor Glitches, And The Eight Minutes That It Took Us To Get To Orbit, We Trained Months And Months For, And Didn't Have To Use Any Of That Preparation, Other Than Being Aware And Ready.

I've Always Enjoyed Traveling And Having Experience With Different Cultures And Different People. But It's Also A Wonderful Thing To Be Able To Benefit And Enable Research, Not Only In Our Country But Around The World.

This Has Been A Great Experience For Me. The First Couple Of Days You Don't Always Feel Too Well. You Adjust To The Fluid Shifting, How To Fly Through Space Without Hitting Things Or Anybody Else. But Then You Get In A Groove.

The Navy's Paid For You To Go Through School, And Then They Need Doctors To Go Out And Take Care Of People Who Are In Various Different Parts Of The World. I Decided To Pay Back My Time First As An Undersea Medical Officer. I Was Stationed In Scotland.

There Was A Moth In There, And It Still Had Its Wings Crumpled Up, And It Was Just Starting To Pump Its Wings Up. Life Continues In Lots Of Places, And Life Is A Magical Thing.