 Pablo, when you're on the space station, if I'm here on the Earth, I look out, I see the community and I see what's around me. I have this sense of place, where I'm at, what's going on in my life. When you're on the space station, what's your perception of place inside the space station? That's an interesting thing. If you really think about it, you are on this artificial vessel that is just orbiting around the Earth and the vastness of empty space. You may feel like you're on a ship in the middle of the ocean and you feel like your little thing but around you there's nothing and you may be there forever. But that doesn't work like it in space. I think you are inside the space station. It's a very well-constructed built environment. There's a sense of purpose because you're doing the working all day long and certain things that are really important. So you don't feel you are in the middle of nowhere. Actually, you feel you are in a place that is very important with a lot of things. When you have a little bit of time, you go to the computer which is our window over the world and you can look down on this Earth right there. You don't see the emptiness around you. You see the Earth. Or you look at the other side and you see the stars. You see the Milky Way. You see completely different things far away. There's a lot of space between them. When you don't see the space, you see the Earth or you see the stars, you see the Sun, you see the Moon. I think it gives you a really good perspective or sense of place where you are which is not emptiness. It's a lot of physical things that you touch with your brain, with your minds but also almost physically with your hands. So, Paolo, when we first talked about the project, you said something that really kind of inspired me. We talked about the fact that right now we have to send scientists and engineers into space and medical professionals because it's critical we do this research partly so that we can understand what we need to know just to travel further out into space on longer issues. But you also said in reality we should be sending philosophers and artists and writers into space and I wonder if you could just talk about that a little bit and how your work as a scientist ties into humanities and how this project reflects on it. Well, you know, the space station is a great human endeavor. We pull together resources from science, technology and we build these international space stations so we can carry out work that is useful for us here on Earth and that eventually will allow us to continue our exploration of the universe which is one thing that we absolutely need to do or we will be doing. At the same time, this is interesting how this is today done by professional astronauts that come mostly from a scientific or technological background and since we are very good operators we can go up and do a sort of good things we can grab a camera and start snapping pictures but I'm thinking what I'm up there. My pictures are good but what would happen if there would be a photographer like you that for six months would concentrate on taking pictures. I can only imagine what would come out of there. How do you reconcile this extension of preserving something that since fairly new? Well, that's a good question. The issue with a lot of the technological facilities that relate to space is that they weren't built to last forever. They were built to be used for a short period of time and then be gone. They were built with materials in the environment like the launch pads on Cape Canaveral. It's right next to the ocean and those rest away. They tear them down. It was just at the Cape and they torn down a number more of the old launch facilities because that's a very precious real estate for launching rockets so they have to reuse it and recycle it. So, unlike a building built in the 1800s that's made out of brick and built to last forever, these facilities were never really designed for that. And the space station is a perfect example. It's even at greater risk because there's no way you can sustain an orbit forever and even if it could, you can't get there. It's a bad thing that you won't be able to go up and photograph the inside way. So, I see this as what I call it. I'm involved with a group that deals with industrial archeology which deals with steel bridges and old factories and glass furnaces and all kinds of 19th century, 18th century works in 20th century but this 21st century material is not going to be around. And it's really what I refer to as technological archeology because you just can't preserve it in most cases in any other way than through a project like this. I think there's no way out today without knowing how to preserve it. If you would be able to take a piece back on earth and put it somewhere in a museum that would be a really nice way to not do that. And I think one of the important part is that the space station is a great example of technological achievement but it's also an historical achievement because it's the first time that nations on earth that have kind of divergent political goals actually go together, work together, nevertheless what happened on the ground and in space they're all together for this multinational, international space station, multicultural, multinational but anyhow international space station. It's the first, I think it's the first example of humanity working together in such a complex project to try to achieve something that useful for everyone. Like we wish in the future this example could lead us to Mars or to deep inspirational space and in that sense it's very important to document this and have something that people can relate to because we cannot have the actual station, the real piece of art. And that's why I was excited to work with you because you're Italian and American so it's an extension of that cooperation.