NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei reflects on record 355 days in space

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NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei reflects on record 355 days in space
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Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.

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.

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