Wednesday, July 19, 2006
HOUSTON—With a bit of poetic flair, space shuttle Discovery's astronauts thanked numerous hundred people Tuesday who welcomed them home to Texas.
Astronaut Piers Sellers told the mass what the view was like from the shuttle "barreling around the Earth at five miles per second."
"Sunrises and sunsets are like watching a small, soft atomic explosion go off in the horizon and stream through and warm your face every time it happens," Sellers said. "Part of me is still up there floating around the world."
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