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It's always morning somewhere in the world
Today's sunrise, 4am, 37000 feet over Irkutsk, Siberia, 9 May 2004
We entered into shadow. Contact with Moscow was gone. Japan floated by beneath us and I could clearly see its cities ablaze with lights. We left Japan behind to face the dark emptiness of the Pacific Ocean. No moon. Only stars, bright and far away. I gripped the handle like a man hanging onto a streetcar. Very slowly, agonisingly, half an hour passed, and with that, dawn on Earth. First a slim, greenish-blue line on the farthest horizon turning within a couple of minutes into a rainbow that hugged the Earth and in turn exploded into a golden Sun. You’re out of your mind, I told myself, hanging onto a ship in space, and to your life, and getting ready to admire a sunrise.
Valeri Ryumin, Russian cosmonaut