You're talking to an astronaut,

At work we had an astronaut speaker about six weeks ago or so. Pretty funny dude. He was hired to talk about safety and how safety issues can compound even at NASA and how repeated ignored warnings is what caused the Challenger crash.

He had q&a at the end and said "let me answer the first question you'll ask. No, I haven't seen any aliens, they probably exist, and we will never see them because they're too far away."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mullane

This was his same talk done somewhere else I found on YouTube.

 
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I'd ask which is more stressful, launch or re-entry. I think launch would be scary as fuck, but thrilling at the same time.

I've talked to a few, and quite intensively with a couple. They tend to be very relaxed yet intense if that makes sense. Typically very nice people.
 
Tiltsta said:
I read somewhere that guys who come back from the ISS have to mentally adjust to gravity. They get used to just letting go of things and having them stay put and 'float', so when they get back to Earth, they drop a lot of stuff. Like just letting go of a coffee cup or tube of toothpaste and expecting it to float, but it falls to the ground.

This might be an interesting thing to ask about.
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BS555 said:
At work we had an astronaut speaker about six weeks ago or so. Pretty funny dude. He was hired to talk about safety and how safety issues can compound even at NASA and how repeated ignored warnings is what caused the Challenger crash.

He had q&a at the end and said "let me answer the first question you'll ask. No, I haven't seen any aliens, they probably exist, and we will never see them because they're too far away."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mullane

This was his same talk done somewhere else I found on YouTube.

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His memoir Riding Rockets is pretty great.
 
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