Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
كريس هادفيلد: ما الذي تعلمته عند إصابتي بالعمي في الفضاء
Tweeting (and covering Bowie) from the International Space Station last year, Colonel Chris Hadfield reminded the world how much we love space. Full bio
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thing that you've ever done?
لإطلاق المكوك
واحد من 40.
effortlessly, gloriously in space,
بروعة في الفضاء
في اتجاهنا إلى منصة الإطلاق،
بأيدي بعضهم البعض،
منذ كان عمري عشرين عام،
we have a saying, which is,
wickets you have to go through.
التي عليك اجتيازها.
half minutes before launch,
قبل الانطلاق،
off its knees or something.
the space shuttle Discovery,
thinking about where it might lead,
والتفكير إلى أين يمكن أن أصل،
help build a space station
ببناء محطات فضائية
100 مليون باوند
through the universe together.
could stick your hand into.
أن تغمس يدَك فيه.
أن أرى بها.
bigger ball of whatever that is
across the bridge of your nose
الذي حصل لك من قبل؟
عليها الكثير من الشعر،
horrible, big necrotic things
is there a brown recluse
هل حقا توجد عناكب بنية
50,000 different types of spiders,
نوعا مختلف من العناكب،
730 different types of spiders
توجد 720-730 نوعا من العناكب تقريبا
symbol on my back, it's the black widow."
إنها الأرملة السوداء"
never going to go through
with your caveman reaction.
مع ردة فعلك البدائية.
it's not a black widow spider,
عنكبوت الأرملة السوداء
no more threat to you than a lady bug
لا يشكل تهديدا أكثر من الخنفساء
walk through 100 spiderwebs
in the park in the morning
في الصباح
variety of different spiderwebs.
المواقف بالطريقة الصحيحة،
بالطريقة الخاطئة كل الوقت،
through those spiderwebs.
also in virtual reality labs
ولكن في مختبرات الواقع الافتراضي
get outside on a spacewalk,
عما يجب أن يكون
قد أصيب بأذى،
إذا توجب الأمر
in your eye starts to dilute
لكن عينك ستُميِعها
the crusty stuff around my eyes,
وأزال الأشياء القشرية من حول عيني،
your reaction to things
مختلفة جدا بالنسبة لك...
hardpan south of the Sahara,
of Eastern Europe fields
spaceship at the ground
there's so much left to do ♫
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Hadfield - AstronautTweeting (and covering Bowie) from the International Space Station last year, Colonel Chris Hadfield reminded the world how much we love space.
Why you should listen
“Good morning, Earth.” That is how Colonel Chris Hadfield, writing on Twitter, woke up the world every day while living aboard the International Space Station. In his five months on the ISS (including three as commander) Hadfield became a worldwide sensation, using social media to make outer space accessible and infusing a sense of wonder into the collective consciousness. Check out his cover version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," sung while floating in his tin can, far above the world ...
Now back on our home planet, he continues to share the excitement of science and space travel. He's the author of the 2014 book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. As he says, "There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blasé. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself." A photography geek, in 2014 he also published an album of his photos from the shuttle: You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes.
Hadfield is also a font of Canadian firsts: He was Canada’s first shuttle mission specialist, and the first Canadian to board a Russian spacecraft (he helped build the Mir), do a spacewalk (he's done two), and of course, to command the International Space Station.
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