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really hot, I can tell. It's hot but I don't feel the heat. I can tell that it's hot and can see it. I'm sort of going to float inside here for a while. Seems that right in the middle there is like a vacuum... let me get right in the middle... sort of a vacuum where there isn't any molten or fire or anything hot... it's like it's almost cool at a certain level... Ok... now I'm right in the center of the Earth, and I'm going to spin around, head over heels... just right into one spot now, building up energy... spinning,

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EXPLORER 2 6 spinning... I'm feeling sparks and light, and feeling ener- gized... and then at one stage it's going to shoot back out through the Earth... It's funny, it's like the Earth is almost like one small atom. I can just see that the Earth is one little, tiny atom in one whole big cosmos. Just one lit- tle atom... I'm moving around inside that atom... I can see different parts of this atom. Now it's spinning back around, and I'm going to shoot out... now in another direction... Now I'm coming up very, very rapidly. It's like I'm coming up through the ocean. I went into an earth part, and now I'm going to come up through an ocean part. It's really beautiful... I can see fish. I can see a whale... my capsule is cooling off on the outside... sort of a rainbow... feels nice and smooth. I'm going to float around like a submarine... pretty dark down here... feel lighter... pretty kind of fish float- ing by... beautiful colour... there is a shark now, a dol- phin... I'm just enjoying everything inside this capsule... coming up to the surface... Pacific Ocean... nice and warm... looking around... seeing islands... Things start looking small again... I'm back on my lauching pad... oh, interesting... the shape of my capsule is going to

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be changed... it's going to be molded into a complet circle. I'm sitting up in it now —before I was lying down— it was like a bullit... it's going very, very fast, but I feel calm and cool... relaxed inside, and I'm spinning out in space... It looks like I'm heading toward a star now... it's a sun... closer, closer, very, very fast... rolling over and over... I can just see it... getting closer into this star, this sun... getting so big now... I very much become aware of the