Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, people didn’t take Katya Echazarreta seriously when she said what she wanted most was to go to space. So in high school, she stopped telling people her dreams. But she never stopped working at them.
Space for Humanity had a lot of questions for her. Two interviews and a third call took place, but she didn't believe it was going anywhere. On the third call, Rachel Lyons, Executive Director of Space for Humanity, told her that they've been dreaming of the moment they get to finally -- after five years of launching the program and searching for the right candidate -- tell the person they chose that they will be going to space.
The would-be astronauts were trained to recognize the sights and sounds they would encounter during take-off and in space. They received training on staying calm, overcoming fear, and even living in the moment, Echazarreta described. Spacecraft must be moving at least 7 miles per second or 25,000 mph to leave Earth's orbit, according to"You don't necessarily feel like you're going super, super fast. I actually feel sometimes when I'm in a car on the freeway like that, I'm going faster than I did when I was in the rocket," she said. The view out her rocket window was her only reference point, she described.
"That is the moment when I realized I was in space and that I was looking at a planet," she said, recalling the memory again."It was embedded into my eyes for three days straight. Every time I would close them, that's the image I would see. And even now I try to close my eyes and I try to go back to it because that is the last thing I want out of this life, is to never forget that view in that sight.
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