was seeing my family and friends.

And feeling this immense love and pride

and just feeling great to see them

and then just walking on terra firma again, you know?

Not floating around but just feeling the Earth beneath you,

that's a beautiful moment.

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I had those moments of, "Where am I?

"Am I in space, am I at home, am I on the ground,

"how am I gonna move, how am I gonna eat?

"Am I able to throw food in the air and go fly and get it?"

To walk on the beach was just the most incredible thing.

When you look at the horizon,

it kind of helps regauge your gyros in your inner ears

and it helps know exactly what's up and down

and right and left.

Driving felt interesting because you've been traveling

at 17,500 miles per hour.

And then you come back and you get in your car

and you're like, "Oh, I'm going 60 miles an hour, huh?”

"That's nothing.”

"I'm going a hundred miles an hour.”

"Oh, that's nothing."

It changes the way you think about speed.

I think food tasted better.

After eating the rehydrated vegetables

and the irradiated turkey,

coming home to a wonderful meal and sharing it

and not having to go chase it

when it bounces off or something, and you can pick it up

and you know it's coming to your mouth, that's pretty cool.

If you wanna go to space, it would be one of these things

that is transformative on so many different levels.

I would tell future explorers

to make sure that when you worked with others

that you work as a team,

you see all people as potential, you know, space travelers together,

no matter what language they speak,

no matter what they look like, no matter what food they eat,

and to know that we're all in this together

and work hard and share the fun.