The thing about going to space as a cosmonaut or astronaut, is that they can't anticipate how much they will truly miss once they're no longer on Earth. Some exercise, others write poetry, anything to get their minds off of what they left back home. One astronaut wrote a song and while in an interview with Mary Roach, he sung it for her while the other translated:
"Sorry Earth, we say good-bye to you...our ship is going upwards...But the time will come when we will drop into the blueness of dawn, as a morning star. I will fall into the grass and fill my lungs with air. I will drink water from the river...I will kiss the ground, I will hug my friends..."
A tear falls from her eyes as the song finishes.
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