Nicole Stott

And I'm joined by my colleague and educator extraordinaire, Samantha Christensen.

And our special guest today by popular demand is Nicole Stott, astronaut and artist.

So thanks for joining us today.

Great to be back.

And it's got a place of honor along with my framed, you know, asteroid.

Asteroid Nicole.

Asteroid Nicole Stott.

Yeah.

And on my visit, I was lucky enough to experience some of it with someone who can offer a perspective most of us will never have.

Former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott spent more than 100 days in space.

And standing with her beneath Space Shuttle Atlantis, I got to hear what it's like to see a spacecraft like this through the eyes of someone who's actually been there.

You know, there's the experience you go through to have this vehicle revealed to you here at the Visitor Complex.

And we always will be.

And I feel like Ron Garan, NASA astronaut, and Nicole Stott, NASA astronaut, have emphasized we're all crew members of Spaceship Earth.

Yeah.

And they've both emphasized there are no passengers.

And he offered to put on a private dinner at his house in London.

And he, and by that point, Nicole Stott, the astronaut Nicole Stott was very, She has always been a big champion about the whole message, the whole journey, and so supportive of this mission and its message.

And so she flew over to be there to present to this private audience that he basically – she has obviously a lot of connections as well, you can imagine – So he held this private gathering for about maybe 50 people to just sort of beta test it because it hadn't been beta tested by that point.

And so it was basically the first presentation I ever gave.