The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.

When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're constantly moving to and away from the sun. From light to shadow, the temperature swings by 300 degrees. Of course we're protected by the gear we wear, but you can definitely feel this temperature change.

Body needs variable of time to be able to settle
presence of soul in this three-dimensional space.

Body needs variable of time to be able to settle presence of soul in this three-dimensional space.

We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.