I saw a program last night, about Story Musgrave, who is a poet and a very creative guy!

His both parents committed suicide, so did a brother (drugs, alcohol). For him, to be able to get out of that destructive cycle, he learned how to constantly change and adapt himself to whatever situation he'd find himself.

Space being a new human experience was his call.

For him, the "Conquest of space" (a very familiar 1960's definition of what we're interested in) is not a right way of doing it: it means we, humans, take our culture and transform space into something suitable to us (like wheeled space stations, terraformation). But that way, we'll fail. We need to adapt ourselves to space (something the Russians have done better by for instance fixing things on the spot, or flying longer and longer missions while learning how to cope with events) rather than adapt space to us. (Zubrin's ISRU is also something more promising).

Before going to space, he'd exercize for hours at home, upside down , learning how to read upside down and he was much better trained for coping with 0G.

Once, he took a plane from the Bahamas (above a beautiful sea) to Porto Rico and went through the entire plane noticing NOBODY was looking outside (this, I've noticed too, BTW, during plane trips), meaning people don't want to connect to nature, the environment. (Why do I so much want Triana to be launched, if not for that precise reason of connecting people to our planet?).

He also spoke about the sounds in space (two spacewalking astronauts can actually hear each other if they touch their respective helmets). He heard the constant ventilation of his specesuit.

About a trip to Mars: When we go to Mars and to the planets, we are going to miss Earth. I do not think people, including NASA, understand what it is going to be like to see earth become the size of your thumbnail at 220,000 miles. In a day or two it will only be a bright planet. And then it will be a star.
I don't think people realize how much they are going to miss that kind of contact. There are different scenarios, but if we were to go today, you would reach a point of no return. Once you've attained the velocity to go there, there's no turning back, until you get there, loop around and come back.

His most beautiful spot on Earth is the Ouvea Atoll, looking like a necklace with pearls! The colors , the clouds and the shape are amazingly beautiful!