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So, yes, you train very extensively about the mission.

There are a lot of things that you have to learn.

You repeat them enough number of times so that they kind of become your muscle memory and you become very proficient by the time you are approaching the mission.

That is the aim of the training, prepare you for Swiss flight.

So when I was strapped onto the rocket on 25th of June last year, amongst the crew of four that we were, I was the only one from the aviation background.

So I have been a fighter pilot, then a test pilot, and then I went on to become astronaut.

happening in India.

[upbeat music] Namaskar mere pyare desh vasio.

What a ride! Ek chalis sal baad hum wapas antariksh mein pohanch gaye hain.

Would psychologically it make more sense to be afraid?

A rocket that is standing on ground, about five hundred tons of propellant that can explode.

When you light this propellant on fire

because you're just your brain is swollen up a little bit

Your brain is, actually, a lot of things are happening right now.

It is not just the fluid shift.

Your balance system, all the inputs that go to your brain, all the sensors, sensory inputs that go to your brain, they are all haywire now.

You know, because there is something known as an otolith organ inside your inner ear, along with the semicircular canals which are responsible for your balance, you know, orientation, right? So, the otoliths have got follicles which are always vertical due to gravity on Earth.

And when you get up to microgravity, they are not vertical anymore.

And it just changes the datum completely.

So I guess here's a question in here for you, Sharks, which is for the entrepreneurs in this room or the budding entrepreneurs who want to build something in space, in the space kind of ecosystem, what are two or three kind of like high level tips you would give them?

And so what is your feeling when you were there, right? You talked about the fact that red goosebumps and everything, but looking down at the earth and seeing all the continents and the rivers and the seas, what was the feeling you were getting? Was there a philosophical moment?

Yeah, I think what you're referring to is the overview effect, which is very famous in what astronauts get.

And so I don't know exactly what people feel.

You know, it is very difficult because even if I tell you, you wouldn't know.

But what I can describe is that there is a shift because you get a perspective which you have not seen before.

Right.

Any new idea that you get in life, if you look at a thing from a very different way, it gives you a very different perspective.

And that's for the first time India is going to do it.