'I Don't Cry That Often...': Lauren Sanchez Shares Her First Emotions After Returning From Space

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Lauren Sanchez speaks to a reporter after her Blue Origin flight to space.

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00:00I have no, it's not working, so someone just tell me when we're on.

00:08Does anyone have our...

00:09All right, and you just saw it there.

00:15All six astronauts coming out, all ecstatic.

00:19Katy Perry and Gayle King both kissing the earth.

00:24Very happy to be back down here, but clearly ecstatic.

00:28I don't know about you, Kristen, but my favorite was Lauren coming out and saying,

00:34where are my babies?

00:35And I also loved Katy Perry holding a daisy, I believe,

00:39and holding the daisy up to the sky after her daughter, Daisy.

00:44Sweet moment.

00:45With that, let's turn it over to Krista Thompson standing by outside the capsule.

00:48I don't really have words for it.

00:51Oh my God, Lauren, I want to cry just seeing you.

00:55So, I'm so proud of this crew.

01:00Like, I mean, Gayle, you know, we were just talking in the capsule.

01:04Doesn't even have ear piercings.

01:05She's so afraid to do anything.

01:07And she got in that capsule, and I think, like, it profoundly changed her.

01:12I mean, for me, I don't have, I can't put it into words,

01:19but, like, I looked out the window, and we got to see the moon.

01:22And it was pink.

01:22Was it pink?

01:23Full moon.

01:24It wasn't pink, but it was almost full.

01:26And earth looked so, it was so quiet.

01:33It was just quiet.

01:35Is it what you expected?

01:38No.

01:40No.

01:40Better?

01:41Yeah.

01:43I don't think you can describe it.

01:46Because, you know, when I was saying it was, like, quiet,

01:49but then also really alive.

01:52And you look at it, and you're, like, we're all in this together.

01:57Like, that's all I could think about is, like, we're so connected.

02:01More connected than you realize, because you just see right here,

02:06you see, like, you know, states and all these things that, like, divide us,

02:10but we're not.

02:11And what is your emotion?

02:15What makes you emotional?

02:16Joy.

02:18Complete and utter joy and gratefulness.

02:21Like, it makes me want to come back and just hug everyone and be, like,

02:24oh, my God, we're in this together.

02:27Like, that's what this is.

02:28And Jeff had told you that it will change you more than you know.

02:32And I know you're only a few minutes removed from the capsule,

02:36but I can tell already.

02:38Yeah.

02:40Oh.

02:43I'm, like, I don't cry that often.

02:46So I didn't expect to be this emotional.

02:47But it's also all the love that was in that capsule and all the heart and the feelings

02:55and all the things.

02:56And, like, seeing Jeff before I left, I just went, like, you know.

03:02I had to come back.

03:03I mean, we're getting married.

03:05If I didn't come back, that would be a bummer for me.

03:09Only you, by the way, would say this to me.

03:11You said, Jeff, if you don't want to marry me, you don't have to send me to space.

03:15You don't have to send me to space.

03:17What an incredible experience for you.

03:20But the fact that when you're in there, we got to hear some of your audio.

03:24But give us some of those moments when you guys, just from the second you took off to

03:28the second you landed, describe, if you can, for us, what we didn't get to hear.

03:32It was a feeling of joy and, like, camaraderie.

03:38It was a feeling of gratefulness.

03:40It was a feeling that we're doing this.

03:43And, you know, Alan Shepard, I told you about this, did the same exact flight.

03:47And he became the first American in space.

03:50And six women just did the same flight that...

03:53Yeah.

03:54He did it.

03:55Oh, I just want to keep hugging you.

03:58It's really cool.

03:59Yeah.

03:59And I hope that more people get to see this because I feel, I don't even know how much

04:06it's going to change me.

04:07And I want to thank the blue team.

04:10I mean, look at them.

04:11I mean, they work so hard to make sure this vehicle gets up and safe.

04:15And I'm so proud of you.

04:17I'm so proud of you.

04:18It's one thing to say you're going to do it.

04:20It's another thing to actually do it.

04:22And I know there's a phrase in your family that life takes off on the other side of

04:26fear.

04:26And here you are, just having landed back on Earth.

04:29And now you are officially Lauren Sanchez, already adding to your extensive resume, you

04:34are an astronaut.

04:35Congratulations.

04:36I'm very excited.

04:37I'm excited to share it with the world.

04:39And I'm so grateful to everyone here.

04:41I love you.

04:42Go be with your family.

04:43But I process and download what just happened to me.

04:46Well, get on in here, Amanda.

04:47And someone that can now articulate exactly how Lauren is feeling.

04:54Lauren being so candid about overcome with emotion.

04:56How are you feeling?

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