What I learned from going blind in space | Chris Hadfield
There's an astronaut saying: In space, "there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse." So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary...
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What's the scariest thing you've ever done?Or another way to say it is,what's the most dangerous thing that you've ever done?And why did you do it?I know what the most dangerous thing isthat I've ever donebecause NASA does the math.You look back to the first five shuttle launches,the odds of a catastrophic eventduring the first five shuttle launcheswas one in nine.And even when I first flew in the shuttleback in 1995, 74 shuttle flight,the odds were still now that we look backabout one in 38 or so -- one in 35, one in 40.Not great odds, so it's a really interesting daywhen you wake up at the Kennedy Space Centerand you're going to go to space that daybecause you realize by the end of the dayyou're eith...
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What's the scariest thing you've ever done?Or another way to say it is,what's the most dangerous thing that you've ever done?And why did you do it?I know what the most dangerous thing isthat I've ever donebecause NASA does the math.You look back to the first five shuttle launches,the odds of a catastrophic eventduring the first five shuttle launcheswas one in nine.And even when I first flew in the shuttleback in 1995, 74 shuttle flight,the odds were still now that we look backabout one in 38 or so -- one in 35, one in 40.Not great odds, so it's a really interesting daywhen you wake up at the Kennedy Space Centerand you're going to go to space that daybecause you realize by the end of the dayyou're eith...
