On four occasions, I did get to step out from the crowded shuttle. I put on a spacesuit, which was like my own little personal spaceship, and ventured outside to work on the Hubble Space Telescope. On my last spacewalk, I made a critical error by stripping a bolt, nearly preventing me from restoring life to an amazing scientific instrument. I looked at the Earth, and I thought: There are billions of people down there, but there’s no way I’m going to get a house call on this one. No one can help me.
What being aboard the space shuttle taught me about sheltering in place for coronavirus
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