that I made a mistake but I could really make this worse if I made a mistake and all of a sudden I

unhooked myself and I start floating off into space and they got to come get me now I've made it a lot worse

because I was nervous and not thinking because I made a mistake.

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Alright here's Mike Massimino.

First of all you've spent a lot of time in space 571 hours and 47 minutes and that includes 30 hours and 4 minutes of space walking at some point.

Do you wake up in the morning and go wait a minute where am I and realize I'm in space I'm still in space right now this is real.

When you're in space or after yeah of course I'm sure you wake up at home sometimes and think oh good I'm not on the hubble I can go get a cheeseburger right but while you're in space.

Do you just never forget that you're actually all the way up there because of the whole setup and the weightlessness and you know having a Velcro pillow strapped your head etc.

No I mean it's just like we two wake up in a hotel room where you're not used to you know you wake up expecting to see your home.

Your regular bedroom and you wake up you realize that especially like that first night you realize that whoa where am I.

You know it's kind of this eerie feeling that you know where am I just like you get when you're waking up in a stranger and we're in a hotel room where you sleep on a

airplane and wake up and you never deep sleep and you have to remember where you are.

So it was like that the first couple times waking up I guess the first day first night or so but then after a while you know what you would do there and you can wake up and

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