In other countries, I found stories about life long passions, the importance of family, and the struggle to achieve the American dream. Where as in the States I found stories about life-long passions, the importance of family, and the struggle to achieve their version of the American dream. "Is it much different that us or are there a lot of things in common?"Īfter traveling a couple thousand miles and meeting people from all walks I have to say the comparison between us and them is striking. "We often wonder what those people are doing, what they think, how they live," said Williams. Obviously, NASA scientists don't normally work on social experiments like ours, but the agency says it wanted to be part of this - partly because it's the one thing all astronauts have always been curious about when they look out that window. Last November, when the shuttle Atlantis took off from the Kennedy space center, it was not only carrying supplies for the international space station, it was carrying a special payload for us - a plastic inflatable globe - that Commander Jeff Williams would use to select our random locations.
To answer those questions, we launched our project - I mean we really launched our project. But what if crossing oceans was as easy as crossing streets? What if we had a chance to know the people of the world as neighbors - as individuals? Or to put it in my vernacular, what if we had a chance to know everybody's story - how would their's compare to ours? As Americans we live in relative isolation.
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