The biggest challenge astronaut Scott Kelly, the American most time spent in space faces, just started and is “back to gravity” after spending nearly a year on the International Space Station (ISS ).
“Back to gravity is harder to get out of it,” said Kelly in his first appearance before reporters at the Johnson Space Center Space Agency US. UU. (NASA) in Houston (USA), after returning on Wednesday, 340 days in outer space.
The aim of the expedition was to check the effects produced in the human body long flights duration, with a view to travel in the future to Mars.
“Some people get very bad in space, I simply am not one of those,” said cosmonaut, who admits that “never felt quite normal “, but reduced their discomfort” little niceties “.
However, it is now on his return when he recounts” muscle aches, sore joints and spine, “which came stretch 5 centimeters weightlessness, but has already recovered its original form.
“I’m surprised how hard it is being. I knew it would be something different (with respect to space travel less duration), but this goes beyond “confessed Kelly, who at most had been gone six months from the Earth.
the psychological impact is also greater and Kelly, whose ideal duration of space travel would three months, admits he was not “able to assimilate” you should see happen every month one year from space.
“After three months you think ‘already been here long’ and you realize that you still have nine. You head is spinning, “he recalled as its most critical moment.
Kelly, father of two daughters, said he missed his family, but that nostalgia is not passed as bad as which provided a phone, from which he could make calls to Earth but not receive them
what you overwhelmed were the small size of the ship that brought him to the International Space Station. “I spent six months in a box “, summed up.
with a view to a future trip to Mars, the cosmonaut encouraged engineers to work to” make that space (the ship) as perfect as possible “as to air, temperature and soundproofing to ensure rest, and in terms of services for entertainment and exercise, to minimize physical damage.
“I’m not complaining, I’m just saying we should do better (.. .). Nor is a big challenge, “he said.
Once on the ISS, however, he was” fascinated “by a larger platform than a football field (109 meters long by 88 meters width) and weighing more than 420 tons, powered by solar energy, has drinking water and offers up gym and television for news.
“If 30 years ago you show a picture of the space station someone and you say, not only we will build it we will make it work for 15 years and make scientific operations, you would have said, ‘you’re crazy,’ “said enthused
.” is an incredible achievement, he stressed. All who made it happen should be proud, also people who contributed their taxes “.
Kelly, in immediate comment on his return he described as” feasible “a trip to Mars, he added now that” we still have to learn “on issues such as the reduction of cosmic radiation hitting the astronauts during the trip and can damage your health.
” If we takes six months to reach Mars, he added, the crew is under intense radiation, if we do it faster, will be less. “
the Kelly himself would be willing to embark on the mission to the red planet, but doubts that NASA will choose again to make history “taking tons of candidates waiting.”
“I’m going to miss you do such a demanding and difficult job. Hard work fills me (…). Maybe you find that feeling doing other things, but not the same, “predicted.
” I did not become an astronaut because I thought it was funny, but because he thought it was difficult, risky, important and that is rewarding ” he recalled, now wistfully.
so, left the door open to “buy tickets for commercial flights, maybe in 20 years,” if NASA does not offer fly again, as it has marked on the map of the stars places to discover and return to.
“I think he concluded that never say that one hundred percent abandonment outer space.”
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