Name: ぼくらは自己隔離による「孤独」を、こうすれば乗り越えられる：宇宙飛行士からの8つの助言 | WIRED.jp
Uploaded: 2021-07-05T18:00:07.000Z
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I was a NASA astronaut for 18 years from 1996 until 2014.

I spent a grand total of about 30 days living on board the space shuttle in space over two missions.

It wasn't always easy on the space shuttle.

It was fairly small quarters, there were seven of us, so we had to really be respectful of each other.

Like many of you, I'm sheltering in place right now.

I'm inside my home and it's, it's kind of like being inside of a spaceship again self contained.

So based on my nearly 30 days of sheltering in space, I have some tips for you that hopefully will help you shelter in place, embrace the situation.

Remember learning this from john Blaha was an experienced astronaut when I was a brand new astronaut.

He spent some time on space station mirror and he described his mission as almost like a first half.

The first half, he was really missing home and really wasn't taking advantage of where he was and he realized that, hey, I'm here.

He was up there for months and the second half it clicked and he said to himself, I'm going to embrace the situation and take advantage of where I am and make the most of it.

And he said after he did that, he had a great time and the days just flew by while I'm sheltering in place.

I'm trying to take advantage of the situation, embrace the situation.

One is, I'm straightening out a little bit more going through things that I haven't thought I'd ever go through and I'm trying to do that.

But also I'm trying to take advantage of this new world we live and we're communicating with each other over distance.

I've been teaching my course online, we've been having faculty meetings online and I'm getting to learn how to use devices like this right now using my phone and zoom and being, I hope it's working by the way, but I hope I'm recording, but I'm going to learn how to use these things now.

And I've got young people, some of my students and my kids trying to show me how to do these things so I can continue to communicate and send out messages.

I'm learning all about instagram and all about ways we can communicate over distance.

And I think that um, a lot of these things that when this thing clears up and were able to be around each other again, I'm still going to be using these tools because they're wonderful.

So um embrace the situation, talk to mission control and be somebody else's mission control.

Is that when I was in space, even though I was isolated from the planet, I did have my crewmates there, but I did feel kind of on my own.

I really fell on my own when I went out to spacewalk, I did have my buddy, my space walking buddy mike good with me.

But each of us were in her own little space.

And during my last spacewalk I did four space walks on the fourth one, the most complicated spacewalk probably ever attempted.

We were trying to take a piece of the Hubble space telescope apart and something we weren't really sure we could do.

I stripped a bolt on one of the science instruments and I thought it was game over, felt like we're never going to solve this.

Uh I have created this horrible problem and we're never going to find out if there's life anywhere else in the universe and everyone will blame me because it is silly mistake that I made.

Remember actually looking at the planet and thinking that everyone that could help me.

Everything was down there and I couldn't, I couldn't even get through a hardware store to fix this problem.

It was like I felt separate from from the Earth, but after about an hour or so of troubleshooting the ground.

Mission control came to come up with a solution used to be ready for this.

The top half of that handrail was freed by the fasteners being released very easily.

The lower 11 of the fasteners did not come loose and Mike Massimino used essentially brute force to remove the handle at the lower portion.

It is now free and a solution worked and were able to get the telescope fixed that day.

I just want to get your closing the doors here.

Tell you what a great job you guys did today and I'm forever grateful.

But there was a time when I forgot that they were there to help me.

So don't forget that help is always there were in this thing together.

And if you're feeling down, if you're having an issue a problem you need help reach out and on the other end try to be someone else's mission control.

I also got a chance to work on the other end of it.

One of my jobs was to talk to the restaurants in space, what we call the cap composition in the control center.

And I always tried to do what I could to make my friends who are in space feel more at ease, particularly during a tough situation, reach out be the person that people can call for help be their mission control.

And don't forget your mission control is there to help you as well?

Exercise exercise is very important in space.

Even on the short missions that I was on longer missions, that's really critical because in zero gravity there's no load on your muscles.

Bone density can go down if you're not exercising because you're floating around on the space shuttle.

When I was flying, we did have an exercise pipe called the Oregon motor.

Were able to ride that thing to get a little bit of exercise.

We also have some thorough bands that we could stretch out and get a little resistance exercise in upper body, even lower body.

So we did a lot of space walking and that was complete exercise the whole time exercise.

I think for our missions was just as important for your mental well being as for your physical well being.

And I think it's the same thing here on earth at these times.

I think it's really important to try to get your exercise every day, whatever that means.

I've set up like this kind of wacky sort of gym in the basement with a few weights and I don't have a I like going to the gym.

That's not happening actually to be truthful, I don't like exercising at all.

But getting outside, we can still run, we can enjoy the outdoors, take the dog for a walk, take yourself for a walk.

It always made us feel great in space, Even just getting 20 minutes of exercise on an exercise bike.

So get your exercise, enjoy the beauty around you.

I think sometimes we get so wrapped up into what we're doing, what our chores are a task or whatever it is that's occupying our brain.

We forget to take a second and look around.

And this happened to me on my last spacewalk, My fourth spacewalk.

I was done a little bit earlier than my space walking buddy.

Mike Good was still doing some work near the telescope.

And I said, well, I said to myself, I'm gonna go to the airlock and start getting things ready for us to go inside.

And while I'm doing this, my good friend, one of my best friends scott all and our commander comes over the com loop and he says, hey, mass that's my nickname because hey, mass, what are you doing?

And I said, well, I'm inside the airlock, getting ready to come in.

And he goes, is there anything you're doing now that can't be done later?

I said to him, no, I'm just trying to get ahead.

He goes, well, why don't you stop what you're doing and go outside and enjoy the view.

I want you to take a look around because your space walk with Hubble is about to come to an end.

We're bringing you in as soon as you close the doors.

Plus my commander was telling me to do this.

So I go outside of the airlock into the payload bay and I clipped my tether in so I'm not gonna float off into space.

So I have a tether on a handrail and I let go with both hands and I just laid there in the payload bay of the space show and looked at the Earth.

I think it's really important to enjoy the beauty around us, Take the time to enjoy the beauty or if you really don't want to go outside, just stay inside, watch something, watch a couple wired video, something like that.

Some of my friends had to have something to do and we got delayed on our landing by a couple of days and I thought this was the greatest thing at the end of our mission because we had nothing to do for two days.

We got waved off because the weather was bad, we couldn't land in florida.

I thought this was great and I just spent all my time looking out the window enjoying the beauty of planet earth.

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ぼくらは自己隔離による「孤独」を、こうすれば乗り越えられる：宇宙飛行士からの8つの助言 | WIRED.jp

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