After spending more than a year in space, Frank Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity.
After spending more than a year in space, Frank Rubio now has to get used to that pesky thing Earthlings call gravity.
« Walking hurts a little bit the first few days, the soles of your feet and lower back, » he said at a news conference Friday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
« I think there is a certain level of pain that comes with the fact that your lower back now supports half your weight. »
Rubio returned to Earth two weeks ago after spending 371 days in space, having taken off in September of last year aboard a Russian rocket for what was supposed to be a routine, six-month mission.
The Soyuz spacecraft that was supposed to bring them back was docked at the International Space Station to be used as an emergency backup vehicle.
