Retired astronaut who spent 665 days in space gives advice on pandemic isolation: Remember "bigger purpose"

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By Nicole Brown CBS News March 23, 2020, 1:46 PM

Retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who spent 665 days on the International Space Station, advised people feeling isolated while staying home during the coronavirus pandemic to remember the "bigger purpose" everyone shares. By social distancing and quarantining, people are "saving lives," she said.

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Whitson also advised working on communicating with the people you're living with.

"That is the most important thing you have to be able to do," she said. "We always have these ideas that we think we're communicating and we have to make sure that that's actually our intent that's hidden in our head is actually being communicated."

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