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Hi, I’m Joy

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and I’m Miles.

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And we created the video about

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NASA’s VISIONS-2 campaign in Svalbard.

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It took 3 flights and a bus ride to get there

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and when we finally arrived it was around noon,

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but it was still pitch dark outside due to the 24-hour darkness.

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We wore head lamps everywhere we went, day or night.

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The 24-7 darkness wasn’t as jarring as I thought it would be.

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But I think that’s because we also had a really hectic schedule.

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We’d wake up at 2:30 am every day.

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I’d pack all my filming gear and then at 3 am,

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we’d head over to wherever we were filming that day.

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Probably the hardest thing about covering this mission

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was that there were so many different things happening all at the same time.

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We really had to plan ahead to figure out

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where we were going to be when to capture it all.

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One of the things I was most worried about

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was being stuck in the block house during launch.

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It’s this building right by the rocket

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and when you’re in there, you can’t be outside during the launch.

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And you could only access that building by car with an escort

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and you could only arrive and leave at certain times.

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But evidently we didn’t miss the launch.

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and it was pretty much the best experience ever.