Terry Virts - Close Your Eyes and Clear Your Head | Motivational Speech

Motivate Me; Inspirational Speeches · Sep 30, 2026 · 8m

🚀 Terry Virts spent seven months orbiting the planet at 28,000 kilometres an hour. What he learned up there was not about ambition or achievement. It was about how to stay calm when everything around you is moving too fast. 🌍

Terry Virts is a retired NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle pilot who commanded the International Space Station — a career built entirely on performing under conditions where panic is fatal. In this speech, Terry Virts shares the mental discipline that astronaut training instils and that almost nobody outside that world ever learns: the ability to stop, close your eyes…