Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk said he was overwhelmed with emotion looking at the Earth during a seven-hour spacewalk on Thursday.
“I tried to focus really hard on not looking up at the high Earth,” he said. “Your mind doesn’t know what to do with that image,” he said.
“It’s exciting,” he added.
Kutryk and NASA astronaut Anil Menon successfully installed seven of eight new solar panels on the International Space Station during the spacewalk. Kutryk became the fifth Canadian to perform such a feat.
Speaking to media as he floated inside the space station on Friday morning, Kutryk said the experience changed him. He said seeing the blue planet from the outside made him feel “very small” and “almost insignificant.”…