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Live from space: “Missing family is the worst thing,” astronaut says
Published: 27 November, 2009, 15:07
TAGS: Space, Interview, RT Exclusive, SciTech
Frank De Winne, the head of ISS Expedition 21, in an exclusive interview with RT hundreds of kilometers above the earth said what he misses most of all are, of course, his wife and kids – and his friends.
“This is something irreplaceable in your life, and you can’t get used to it,” De Winne said.
As for the hardest things to do on board, the astronaut mentioned microgravity:
“You are losing things, because if you let something go here, like, for example, a pencil, it will float, it won’t stay in its place. You’ll find it drifting around”.
The living conditions on ISS are not too bad, according to him.
“Though, of course, we don’t have too much water, we don’t have comfortable conditions that we have at home,” De Winne noted.
Meanwhile, at Star City outside Moscow, a new crew of astronauts are taking their final exams ahead of blast off to the International Space Station next month. The exams have entered their second day.
The crew are facing tasks as diverse as fixing space toilets to treating kidney failure.
The results will show whether the new team, which includes a Russian cosmonaut and two astronauts, is ready to replace the current ISS team from late December to May.
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