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Self is a real person portrayed by Peggy Whitson in the TV series One Strange Rock (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Awakening (season 1), they were 58 years old.
They appear in 2 episodes out of a total of 10 aired
Self is also portrayed by Mae C. Jemison, Nichelle Nichols, Jerry Linenger, Michael Massimino, Brian Shiro, Leland Melvin, Chris Hadfield, Nicole Stott, Jeff Hoffman and Romo Ngatik.

Self

by Peggy Whitson

character

Episodes2

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    Awakening
    episode S1.E9 may 2018
    Your brain is an anomaly. We tend to think that once the first life emerged it was inevitable that it would eventually evolve into us. But there is nothing inevitable about consciousness. For over 2 billion years no life on earth possessed a brain. And even today, 90% of life doesn’t have a brain. How life and our strange rock came together to create consciousness is a story of almost impossible and unnecessary coincidences….
    • 45min
  • 8.5
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    Home
    episode S1.E10 may 2018
    There’s no place like home. We wrap up the whole series through the story of nasa’s most experienced female astronaut, Peggy Whitson, as she returns home to earth. We might possibly be the only intelligent life in the universe. Life is rare, complex life rarer, and intelligent life may be an evolutionary bad idea or dead end that is rarer still… and that means that it’s possible that we humans may be the only thing in this huge and amazing universe that can appreciate its strangeness with awe and wonder.
    • 45min