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WILL SMITH: Where is home?

Is it where you were born?

(alarm clock beeping)

Where you were raised?

Or where you are now?

Is it somewhere you live?

Somewhere you left?

Somewhere that shaped you?

If you really wanna know, you
need to leave them all behind.

Someone who knows that it's
like to really leave home is

Peggy Whitson, NASA's most
experienced astronaut.

Not that you'd know it
if you ever met her.

PEGGY: Well I hate
talking about the records,

but I do have few.

WILL SMITH: That folks is the
understatement of the year.

How about we start with
most time in space for
any US astronaut.

-Which is 665 days.

WILL SMITH: Think about
that for a second,

that's a round trip to Mars.

(laughs).

Then there's the longest
single space flight for any

woman in the world.

-Oh, that's right, yeah.

WILL SMITH: And that's
just for starters.

-Ten space walks, first female
Commander and I can't remember

the other, oh, I know oldest
astronaut, female astronaut,

not a record I
was looking for.

The press seemed to
point that one out a lot.

WILL SMITH: Not bad for
a farm girl from Iowa!

Eight astronauts, Chris,
Nicole, Jeff, May, Jerry,

Mike, Leland and
then there's Peggy.

Each one of them is different,
they come from different places,

they have different
stories to tell but they were
all changed by one thing...

Going into space.

It's called the Overview
Effect and if you could see

what they've seen,
you'd feel it too.

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Most of us leave
home every day.

We go to work without
a second thought.

But just imagine
if your work place
overlooks the planet

then that morning
commute becomes a little
bit more challenging.

-We launch from
Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

It was actually the same
launch pad that Yuri Gagarin
launched from.

It's a fast trip
to get to space.

Better than any car
you've ever been in,

better than any acceleration
you've ever experienced.

It feels good to
be going fast.

Eight and a half minutes
after leaving the launchpad

we are in orbit.

WILL SMITH: The
international space station

is 250 miles above the planet.

But it is a million
miles away from the place

Peggy first called home.

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-Growing up on a farm I
think was actually a really

good experience for me,
it taught me a lot of

dedication and hard work.

-She says she'd
like to go to Mars.

-My parents have lived on
the same farm for fifty,

almost sixty years.

My mom was
incredibly supportive.

At one time I was telling my
sister I wanted to be a pilot

and learn to fly and she's
like, "You can't be a pilot,

you can only be a stewardess."
and my mom told her,

"No, you can be anything
you want to be!"

-I think there's two Peggy's,
the one that comes here and

the one that goes there
are different people.

WILL SMITH: An astronaut will
have trained for at least

three years for a mission.

Every moment in space is
scheduled with experiments to

run and tasks to complete.

But the first thing they wanna
do is exactly what we do when

we go somewhere new,
check out the view.

Going into space is like
I live my whole life in a

semi-dark room and somebody
flipped on the lights.

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The earth just seems
to glow, it's so beautiful.

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CHRIS: When I first
went to space,

the first thing I wanted to
do was pop off my helmet,

unstrap out of my chair, float
up weightless and go to the

window and see the world.

NICOLE: What we see
with our eyes, what
we then I think feel

through our heart says
your experiencing it is,

it's beyond imagination.

LELAND: It is just so
stunningly beautiful it almost

makes you, you, you wanna
find new words to describe

the emotion that
you're feeling because it
affects you so powerfully.

MIKE: This is something
that human eyes are not
supposed to see.

WILL SMITH: Looking out
the window may not be the

highest mission priority...

but it has a lasting
impact on all astronauts.

It changes how they think
about where they're from.

PEGGY: The town closest
to my parents farm
is Beaconsfield, Iowa.

When I was growing up it
had like 32 people in it and

I think it's down to
eleven'ish now so it's
a pretty small town.

WILL SMITH: Beaconsfield maybe
the smallest town in Iowa but

it's a place full
of amazing stories,

amazing transformations.

-Growing up in Iowa there's
all kinds of life around...

and when somebody says
the word "butterfly"
you always think

of the Monarch butterfly
because it's the most

distinctive one that
I saw growing up.

AUBREE: This one's
a pretty good one.

-It's big!

-They feel like soft and
gooey at the same time.

-I know!

-The spring and summer there
are lots of caterpillars,

it's easy to find them because
they're only on the milkweed.

-It's always interesting to
see the caterpillars crawling

around and recognize
that someday that's
gonna become a butterfly.

-You like to move
around a lot don't you.

WILL SMITH:
We all know that caterpillars
turn into butterflies...

but does it make it
any less wondrous?

It's as extraordinary
as a farm girl from Iowa

transforming into
an astronaut.

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The Monarch butterfly's
caterpillar is
nature's shape shifter supreme.

-When the caterpillar
is inside the chrysalis
it dissolves and it

turns into goo...

And then the good
turns into a butterfly.

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WILL SMITH: Caterpillars
don't know much of the
world beyond a milkweed plant

but once a butterfly
it's cleared for takeoff.

And from up high it gains a
new perspective on the world.

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Astronauts change
when they leave earth.

They undergo a metamorphosis.

Home is no longer a town,
it's something much bigger.

NICOLE: I think the
opportunity to kind of live in

space has allowed
me to look at things a

little bit differently.

It really opens up
a new perspective.

MIKE: I don't think
about the city I live
in or where I'm from,

I think about home
and home is our whole
planet or whole earth,

it's one home for all of us.

-As I've grown up and gone
to college and gone to graduate

school home has expanded
from Iowa to Texas to the

United States and since
being in space home is

actually planet Earth!

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-Look!

-Here she comes!

WILL SMITH: There she is.

-17,500 miles an hour,
fast moving star.

-That's your daughter
up there, isn't it?

There's lot of stars
out there tonight but she's
the only one that's moving.

Bye Peggy, hurry home.

WILL SMITH: Astronauts don't
spend all their free time at

the window looking at earth,
after all they're explorers so

it's only natural for
them to turn the other way

towards the
far reaches of space.

They set their sights
on what's out there.

Thing is,
that big window on the
ISS only points one way,

down to earth.

To see the cosmos you
have to step outside!

WILL SMITH: You'd think when
you're in space you'd have

lots of it, you've probably
got more room in your back

yard than the astronauts
have on the ISS.

It is cramped up there.

You don't really experience
space until you walk in it!

PEGGY: Going for a walk
it's not a trivial process,

it takes a lot of
work and preparation.

But, everyone wants
to do it because oh my gosh
the view is phenomenal!

WILL SMITH: On a
spacewalk it's just you!

Floating!

No up, no down.

Turn one way a 250 mile
drop back to earth,

the other an endless
expanse of unblinking stars.

The main thing astronauts
remember though is not the

stars but the black.

Looking into that
void makes astronauts
ask the same question,

"Is there anybody out there?"

MAE: To say that there's no
life elsewhere in the universe

is a real stretch.

JERRY: You know
mathematics doesn't lie,

probability doesn't lie and
when you look at these numbers

surely there has to be
some other life out there.

-There's got to be other life
out there, there has to be.

It's just a matter of whether
we can find it or not.

WILL SMITH: To find out if
we have neighbors you need a

telescope and I'm
talking big, really big!

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WILL SMITH:
This dish is a giant ear,

listening to radio waves
coming from deep space.

WILL SMITH: There are
literally billions of strange

rocks out there but
so far not a whisper
from any of them.

Nada!

WILL SMITH: So
where is everybody?

Well...

it's about 250 miles
from earth to the

international space station,

250,000 miles to the moon.

Long way right?

Baby steps!

Saturn, 700 million miles.

Edge of the solar system,
over nine trillion.

Our nearest start, four
and a quarter light years.

Aboard our fastest
spacecraft it will take

17,000 years to
get there and that's just
our next-door neighbor!

Travelling beyond, through
our galaxy to the edge of the

Milky Way we're talking
25,000 light years!

And our galaxy is
just one of trillions!

So life elsewhere
might just be a very,

very long way away...

And there's another thing,

any aliens out there might
not be able to say "hello"

because they might not have
a mouth or even a brain.

WILL SMITH: These jellyfish
have found a way to capture

energy from sunlight.

WILL SMITH: If life exists
elsewhere it will need energy,

probably from a sun and
water just like on earth.

But like these jellyfish most
creatures on our planet are

not intelligent, they
never ask to phone home!

JERRY: There's probably life
out there in the universe but

to find intelligent life,
those odds go way, way,
way down.

JEFF: We don't know for
sure that we're alone but

psychologically,
spiritually, culturally we

definitely are alone.

NICOLE: As far as we know
we're the only ones like us.

WILL SMITH: Space is
almost entirely nothing.

Adrift in that empty void
it's easy to feel completely

and utterly alone.

That's when earth starts
to look really good.

WILL SMITH: Down here we
see infinite blue skies and

life all around us.

For astronauts it's different.

Everywhere they
look is barren,

life exists in just a
single, solitary oasis.

The more they look
at it, the more they
appreciate the earth.

They begin to understand the
shear interconnectedness of

the natural world.

The earth begins to reveal
patterns, connections,

seasons, systems and cycles.

PEGGY: It really is
enlightening to me how complex

even a little butterfly is.

-The Monarch butterflies
are special because they
travel really long ways.

WILL SMITH: The Monarch's
don't like winter in Iowa,
they migrate South.

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AUBREY: The butterflies
they go all the way to Mexico.

Like, I don't know where to
go if I were to go to Mexico,

like how do they get there?

It's like a mystery!

WILL SMITH: After
more than 2,000 miles
they've almost reached their

winter home and there's
a welcome party waiting

to greet them.

WILL SMITH: Okay, so this
may just be co-incidental

but the arrival of
the Monarchs has come at the

same time as the Day of
Dead for so long it's

become part of the culture.

WILL SMITH: It's not
just butterflies from
Iowa that travel here,

they're joined
by immigrants from across

the mid-west and
as far north as Canada,

all heading for
refuge in the forests
of central Mexico.

WILL SMITH: It's one of the
greatest homecomings on earth!

Even though every Monarch here
has another home far away,

each one started life on
a milkweed some place like

Beaconsfield, Iowa.

It's hard to know where these
Monarchs belong, Iowa, Mexico,

on the wing or all of those?

These butterflies show that
the earth has no borders.

Everything is interconnected.

It turns out what happens in
Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas!

It's linked to the
rest of the planet.

And on a world where
everything is connected,

the smallest actions can
have global consequences.

Take the plastic
bottles we throw away.

Well, they might just end up
on someone else's doorstep.

This Hermit crab is
looking for a new home.

House hunting is a
especially hard when someone's

trashed your neighborhood.

Millions of tons
of plastic end up in
our oceans each year.

But one guy's trash is
another guy's treasure!

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Hermit crabs have
been found living in
garbage across the planet,

after all a plastic
house can last a long time.

But not every creature can
adapt like the Hermit crab.

As we change our planet
most life on earth
struggles to keep up.

CHRIS: Right now there's
seven and a half billion of us

turning the lights on and
flushing the toilet and

driving our cars and
turning up the heat in our

house and none
of that comes for free.

JEFF: When you look at the
earth from space and you

realize the finiteness
of our planet,

the thinness of
our atmosphere,

it's obvious that the earth,
like any environmental system

has a limited
carrying capacity.

PEGGY: The greatest
threat to our planet,

I think we are probably
the potential greatest
threat to our planet.

WILL SMITH: But there's
hope for us all,

because there's something
else that's changed too,

something that could help
save our precious home!

-Alright, we're gonna roll.

WILL SMITH: Christmas 1968,

an astronaut took
this photograph.

It went viral
when that wasn't such
an easy thing to do

because it was the first
time we'd ever seen a color

portrait of our planet.

-Because little planet Earth
photobombing the moon.

WILL SMITH: It
was a pretty deal,

it showed us how
beautiful our world is,

turns out photos
don't do it justice.

PEGGY: When we look out
the window and we see the

beautiful oceans,
beautiful land masses,

the thin layer of atmosphere
that protects the Earth,

it just really gives you a
sense of how special this

place is where we live.

CHRIS: It's an interesting
coincidence that
at this time in history,

when our population has gotten
so big that we're starting to

make global changes to the
planet it's also the time that

we've invented space flight
which allows us to see the

whole world as one place.

NICOLE: Seeing earth from
space made me think of myself

and everybody else
that I share the planet
with as Earthlings.

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WILL SMITH: All over the world
people love to party and in

India every Spring people
celebrate Mother Earth's new

life in colors.

CHRIS: One of the biggest
changes I noticed within

myself as a result of
flying in space was that the

difference between us
and them disappeared.

-Somehow going around
the world in 92 minutes,

not just once but over
and over and over again,

turned the entire world
into one shared place.

CHRIS: I think it's
a perspective that's
seeps into astronauts.

I think it's a
perspective that's,

that's kind of
good for everybody.

LELAND: I truly believe that
if more people could have the

opportunity to see
the planet from space,

looking at the rich colors,
looking at the fact that there

are no borders separating us
we could see that we are truly

all connected as human beings.

WILL SMITH: Ever been on a
trip and seen something new?

Something incredibly beautiful
or something that changed the

way you think about things.

Now imagine that
trip was to space.

You've seen something
only a very few
people have ever seen.

Astronauts need to tell someone,
anyone, everyone!

Soon they're ready
to go back down but it's
actually bittersweet.

I mean they're
going back to the
place that made them but

leaving the place
that shaped them.

-Last day in space.

After 665 total days over
three different expeditions.

Quite amazing to think
that I'd lived up there,

just under two years of
my life, pretty amazing.

It was hard
to leave because I knew I
wouldn't be coming back.

Jeepers!

But I was so excited
about going back home and,

and being back on
earth having you know,

wind and smelling the air
and just being on earth.

WILL SMITH: But coming
home is not easy.

Mother Earth doesn't
exactly welcome you
back with open arms!

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-We land in Kazakhstan,
there's not many people around

so there's no risk
of us damaging or hurting
anybody during a re-entry.

WOMAN (over radio):
We have maneuver, copy.

CHRIS: The earth's atmosphere
is a protective shield around

our planet, it
keeps our radiation.

It keeps our rocks and
meteorites but it also keeps

out astronauts, suddenly we're
on the other side of that

protective body and we are
essentially an invader.

PEGGY: During re-entry
the window seat is...

It's interesting.

CHRIS: Flying the Russian
(inaudible) is a little bit

like flying a meteorite home.

LELAND: You can look out and
see the orange and purple

flames of 3,000 degrees,
they are this far from you.

That's pretty frickin' scary.

CHRIS: You're going
17,000 miles an hour,

eight kilometers a second and
somehow you have to get rid of

all of that speed, you
have to apply the brakes.

WILL SMITH: Re-entry is about
the most dangerous thing an
astronaut will ever do.

(inaudible rado chatter)

CHRIS: It's an extremely
complex and dangerous
process to return home.

You have to control your
spaceship so you can end up at

the landing point where
everybody's waiting for you.

WILL SMITH: The search and
rescue team doesn't know

exactly where Peggy will fall
back to earth but one things

for certain, gravity will
eventually bring her home.

PEGGY: The Russian's never
design their vehicle to land

on the water so it's always
been a land landing for them

and it works, it's
abrupt but it works.

Once we get inside
the atmosphere,

about five miles above the
planet a parachute will open.

Okay, we're good now.

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(thud)

Most people compare
it to a car crash,

I would compare it to
maybe two car crashes.

When we hit the ground and you
feel everything settle that

was when I knew we
were home again.

-Peggie, welcome back.

PEGGY: It's incredibly
hard to describe how heavy

everything feels in
those first few minutes.

-Just moving your arm
this much is like,

it has to be a huge conscious
effort to move your arm at all

so you're like, "Wow,
space was good!"

Gravity sucks!

WILL SMITH: Peggy hasn't just
looked at space or visited it,

she's lived there, so is
her home back in Iowa?

Or the whole earth?

Or is it up on the ISS?

Truth is, like the
Monarch it's all of them!

-I'm not sure
whether I feel more like an
Earthling or a space woman.

I think being a space
woman's a lot more fun.

LELAND: When I got
home from space,

after getting out of my suit,
then to have a meal without

the food floating away from
you and being able to pet your

dog and talk to your parents
face to face it made me feel

so much more connected
to the planet.

JERRY: You know after
that space experience
being back on the planet

I think what really sky
rocketed me is just gratitude.

You know how good we
have it on the earth.

NICOLE: I couldn't wait to
feel what a breeze would be

like again you, you know what
the smell of grass was gonna

you know smell like again.

CHRIS: It's the smell of
earth, the smell of home,

the smells of the
natural world.

It's over powering, it's
kind of overwhelming.

MAE: Just because you
physically leave the surface

of the earth does not
mean you leave the earth,

because the earth
is part of you.

MIKE: I think we're
pretty special, yeah,

we might be small in
comparison to the rest of that

universe but I dare anybody
from any other planet to come

up with a place
as nice as ours,

I think we definitely have
the nicest home on the block!

JEFF: This is our home,
the earth it's, it's the
only place we've got, it,

it is one strange rock because
it's ours and we are here and

we don't know if any other
place in the universe, yet,

that can support life.

We're very lucky to
have it as our home.

MIKE: There's no
place like home!

CHRIS: There is no
place like home!

PEGGY: There's definitely
no place like home!

WILL SMITH: For thousands of
years maybe tens of thousands

we've looked up and
asked questions.

Now for the first time
in history we have the

opportunity to look down, the
questions are different and so

are the answers.

We can now literally
see how fortunate we are
to call this place home,

it's complex, calibrated,
inter-connected...

fine-tuned but fragile.

Perspective is everything.

From down here earth
is simply our home.

From up there, it
is one strange rock.

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-I miss space!

-What did you say?

-You can ask me when I'm
95 do I wanna go back.

-I love it!

-The answer would
absolutely be yes!

-I wanna go back!

Don't tell my wife!

(laughs).

Don't put that on television!

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