Framed by television cameras, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei takes part in his first press conference since returning from a record 355 days in space at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
One thing he had not realized was how much the Soyuz capsule swings under its parachute as it descends to the steppe of Kazakhstan., it looked like the Earth was swinging back and forth past the window," he said."I realized that if I kept looking out the window all the time I was going to start feeling nauseous, so I looked inside and started focusing on the displays. That made everything seem very stable, because nothing in the spacecraft was oscillating back and forth.
Vande Hei reported having some aches and pains, but that his transition back to life on Earth was going better — and faster — than he expected.
I would have to learn Russian 😨
Good record days in space station astronaut still 355 days