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How is preparing for a Soyuz flight different to the preparations you had to go through for Space Shuttle missions?

Also, how can you best describe the feeling of looking down on Earth from orbit for the first time?

What is the future of the Thunderbird pilots looking like now that the team has been disbanded?

That's good to hear that you are hopefully going to be back in the air later this year. Everything that I'm hearing about this sequestration is that it's impacting either financially insignificant or socially essential services and not much else. It doesn't really make sense to a non-American.

Here's hoping that your jobs, and everything else at Nellis gets back to normal soon!