On a Desert Island with the 2025 Class of Astronaut CandidatesHouston We Have a Podcast Season 1Episode 402 Sep 26, 2025
Yuri KuboOkay, this is Yuri again. I can, I can kick this one off back when I was go. I’m not sure if they still do it or not, I hope they do, but they allowed us to watch Apollo 13. They did a screening of Apollo 13 in historic mission control. So all the co-ops would kind of get together, and then in the evening, they would watch Apollo 13 in historic mission control. It was, like, the most transformative- it was, it was just- you’re sitting in these chairs on the at these consoles, watching the people in the same setting, like working through the most like complex, kind of, like challenging scenario in space you could imagine. And like, it really hit home. Like, this is, this is real. I’m a part of this. These people around me, and the footsteps that I’m following in are, like, just incredible. These are my heroes kind of a thing. And like, just to be in the gravity of that situation, while also kind of like being in that location, watching it happen. It was, was unreal. It really solidified my kind of love of space, love of the agency, love of kind of the mission. And, yeah, I couldn’t, couldn’t have asked for any, like, single moment that was better than that. [...]
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