:11:07
- Gee, look at that.
- That's a big hummer, isn't it?
:11:11
Look at that! Get some shots of that.
:11:16
Syncom's deployed, Houston.
:11:25
Much of the time, the orbiter flies
with its payload bay facing Earth.
:11:31
So to see our planet's features,
the crew uses the overhead windows.
:11:36
That's pretty.
:11:51
As we cross the Alps into Italy,
Genoa is on the left...
:11:55
...home of Christopher Columbus.
:12:14
Eastward, the Po River
flows down to the Adriatic...
:12:19
...and just north of its mouth,
glorious Venice.
:12:24
This is the Italy of the Renaissance.
:12:29
It was here that Leonardo
first said, "We can fly".
:12:36
Now, we circle the Earth
every 90 minutes...
:12:39
...at 17,000 miles an hour.
:12:43
It's as if we're in a time machine...
:12:45
...looking back across the centuries
at our own history.
:12:53
The boot of Italy.